How would Grub have survived today?
Poorly. I think many of those guys, and Grub is such a concoction of guys who I knew from the sport and blue collar types from that era, would have found political correctness very intrusive on their ideology of life. The scene where Grub is in the car drinking beer with his offsider; I saw that. I saw that first hand because my grandfather did that. I think Grub would have struggled immensely from the changing of sport and life in general. One often forgotten group from that sporting era are the women. Your women characters are extremely strong. Where did they come from? The women of that era were the rock for many of those men. They had to be so strong to endure what was acceptable at the time. Growing up, I saw many women who were mothers of my friends or in my own family, who had that strength. I admired them greatly. It was Grub’s wife, Emma (Raelee Hill), who is behind what makes that guy tick and is ultimately the reason why he made the decision he did. And the bartender, Kate (
