I saw a re-run of the Jackie Robinson Story on television as a kind of warm up. Man, what an awful movie that was...with Jackie playing himself no less!
Can't wait to see 42.
The story behind that casting was that allegedly Hollywood couldn't find a black actor to convincingly play him, thus they called in the real deal.
I mean its like when they made the first Ali biopic back in the 70s, who else but Ali could play Ali?
