![]() ![]() Walked like Bjorn Borg and it was really weird to see Bjorn come back in Thing was the first time I saw him as Bjorn Borg on the set was he I'm really happy the of me young "The most fantastic This athlete and he worked so hard, he got a new body. "His diet was mainly pizza and beer, and then he had to be Skinny and had no muscles, he was a little floppy. ![]() "Sverrir's transformation is fantastic because he was "I remember the pain and anxiety when he lost match ball after "It was so well-built, the perfect drama, except that the tieīreak should have been in the last set and not in the second-last set. Watched all his matches, but that one was fantastic. "I remember it because it was a drama, everyone in Sweden Match as a national event in his native Sweden. Stellan does not count himself as a tennis fan but remembers that "You don't have to be interested in tennis to see it, youĭon't have to know who Borg or McEnroe are to see it, it stands on Ingredient in the film, and it gives the film a life of its own beyond "The emptiness of that success and that fame was a big Having friends and sleeping with girls and stuff, important things. Spending their entire life playing tennis instead of reading books and It's about those two poor boys, their lives are f***ed up already, Stellan says, "and it's not about who is going to win really, ![]() "There are no bad guys and no good guys in this film," McEnroe's experiences of pressure and expectation in his formative To show Borg's early start as a gifted but volatile child and "I asked Bjorn Borg himself after the premiere what he thoughtĪbout it and he said 'yeah it's real' and that was a goodĪs the build-up to the match unfolds, the film slips back in time "Shia and Sverrir, the way they move, their footwork, You can always put in theīalls with CGI afterwards but you cannot change the body language. Never seen it as well done as in this film. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, plays Borg's devoted coach Lennartīergelin and says the film achieves what is so hard to master. Stellan Skarsgard, star of Mamma Mia, Thor, Good Will Hunting and Wimbledon when Borg was a four-time victor and McEnroe the prodigy eager The second tells the story of the fierce rivalry between the two,īuilding up to their 1980 clash in the men's singles final at Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason and Shia LaBeouf as cool-headed championījorn Borg and the volatile and ambitious John McEnroe. Succession - Battle Of The Sexes, starring Emma Stone and Steve CarellĪs Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, and Borg Vs McEnroe, starring Rally is notoriously difficult to do while it is also a major task forĪctors to master the footwork and technique of tennis championsĬonvincingly enough to play one on screen.īut not one but two tennis films are now arriving in quick Rocky, Chariots Of Fire to Any Given Sunday - it's rare for aĭramatising the tension of a matchpoint and the repetition of a WHEN you think of the great sports films - from Raging Bull to He talks to LAURA HARDING about sport, dealing with fame and the Mamma Mia sequel. Now Stellan Skarsgard is playing Bjorn Borg's coach in a film about the epic tennis clash between Borg and John McEnroe.
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