The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.
There are many actors who, whatever they do, they pretty much play themselves.
As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.
The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.
I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.
When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.
A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.
Some actors play themselves, don't they?
In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
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