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MIKE TOLLIN (Director)
How was your experience directing "Summer Catch?"
I had a great time making this movie. It was really a dream come true because it's not just baseball - there's comedy, and there's romance and there's a really coming-of-age drama. Ultimately for me, the movie is more about the characters and their growth, and their hopes and dreams and how they try to achieve them - and baseball is kind of a backdrop. So, for me, it was the perfect movie because it combined all my favorite elements of filmmaking.
Which of your actors was the most natural at baseball?
Marc Blucas has a little known fact from his history. He played major college basketball on the same team with Tim Duncan, who is one of the best players in the NBA. So we put him in the outfield and he was diving over fences and really didn't need that much training. But all these guys, they all worked hard to make it real. They know I'm kind of a documentarian at heart. I really believe in keeping it real, and in the authenticity of everything we do in the movie. So these guys, they went through a training camp, they worked hard, and the action you see out there is real. I think it's really representative of the top caliber of baseball.
Did you get out on the field and play?
Yeah, I brought my mitt to the field everyday. It was a great environment. Of all the films I've done, this had as good a morale as any of them. It was a pleasure to go out there. We weren't on the field for the whole movie, but it just sort of felt like a team. Everybody pulled together and, yeah, I got to throw the ball around a little.
What is the story behind the Freddie Prinze Jr. and Matthew Lillard in thongs?
There was sort of a sense that thongs shouldn't just be for women. I mean, why should that be specific to one gender (laughing)? So, whoever happens to put one on...
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