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Why ‘King Richard’ Cinematographer Studied Other Sports Movies to Make Williams Sisters Drama

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“King Richard” is much more of a character story than a sports film, but still were you concerned that the tennis looked different than watching ESPN?We thought about that a lot and we struggled with it.

So we watched every tennis movie, even though there haven’t been a lot of them. There’s “Battle of the Sexes,” which is about Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs; there’s “Wimbledon,” which is a love story; there’s “Borg vs.

McEnroe,” with Shia LaBeouf. As you watched them, what did you learn?There were certain things we liked. In “Battle of the Sexes” and in “Borg vs.

McEnroe,” the camera was out on the tennis court with the actors, both handheld and Steadicam, which was really interesting.

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