Jessica Henwick on 'The Matrix Resurrections' and Her 'Knives Out 2' Full-Circle Momentīernthal not only learned how to play tennis, but he also picked up the lingo and mindset of a coach. So I think there was a real sentiment in the tennis community that there hadn’t really been a tennis movie that got it right yet.” But just as athletes, we’ve seen sports that we know in movies, and when you don’t get that right, I find it so utterly disrespectful. Tennis was totally foreign to me, as it was to Rei. “We really wanted to get the tennis right. It was one of the things that was really important to and ultimately really important to me as well,” Bernthal tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I trained at this tennis academy up in my home of Ojai, the Weil Tennis Academy. So to believably play one of Venus and Serena Williams’ mentors, Bernthal dedicated himself to the game for three hours a day during the industry shutdown last year. While Jon Bernthal was a decorated athlete growing up, he had never really stepped foot onto a tennis court until he was cast as Rick Macci, one of the most successful tennis coaches in the sport’s history, in King Richard.

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