'Bull Durham' is turning 35. Did you know the film, considered one of the best sports movies of all time, was initially deemed unbankable? The script had racked up a stack of rejection slips, and a few studios passed more than once.
“I asked him ‘What’s his intent here?’” Wuhl recalled over the phone. “And Bruno, said, ‘Well it seems to me that if the manager moves up in the organization, they generally take their pitching coach with them.’”The light went on for Wuhl. He would play Hockett as a Yes Man. As for the bouncing off the walls during his audition, Wuhl had grown up absorbing the electric hand-smacking physicality of the diamond because his father had been an accomplished ballplayer.
“I almost had my ego getting involved here because they kept us waiting two hours after our appointment times,” Wuhl said. “And I was kind of pissed off.” Even so, it took Wuhl to ratchet things up a notch. The mound scene was almost doomed before it started. Because they were behind on production, producers suggested they cut the mound visit and not even film it. Shelton fought back, a pattern that would play out many times.
“I never expected it to be in the movie ever,” he said. “Because I’ve worked with a lot of directors who have said, ‘Yeah, it’s funny. Yeah, it’s in character. It works. But you know, it’s not my vision. I didn’t write it.’ Ron is not that way. Thank God. Ron always said, ‘I’m very happy to take credit for your genius.’”
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