Was Dennis Quaid a mentor or teacher to the young actors behind the scenes?
Behind the scenes? I mean just from watching him, being around people who are talented just kind of rubs off on you. Say you are playing baseball or basketball, if you play a team that’s really good it’s going to automatically elevate your game. If you play a team that’s really bad, it’s going to bring it down. This is sort of the same thing. What most rubbed off on you about him? Well not rubbed off because I already had it, but just his professionalism, how hard he worked. I know how hard he worked on pitching and trying to make that look real. It was constant training and a constant process that he was going through. I admired that because he’d never pitched in his life. Did you get to meet the real Jim Morris? Yeah, yeah. He came down to the set a bunch of times. We had dinner and kind of hung out afterwards. He was a cool guy. He just came by and was just kind of blown away by the whole thing – realizing that this film was being shot because of his life story. It was pretty intere
