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B-Roll – Outside theatre, red carpet, Band

B-Roll – Robert Patrick, James Denton

B-Roll - Kate Mara, Brian Geraghty, Kate Mara with mascot, Brad Paisley & Kimberly Williams, Wide of band, Brad Paisley & Kimberly Williams, man with long shaggy hair.

Sound Bite: Jack Lengyel
Uh he called me and I talked with him on the phone for about 45 minutes when he first found out about the movie. Then I had breakfast with him and saw him on set several times, but what he, I was a collector, I had all my play books and photographs and all that at home, my wife’s a throw-a-way-er but she didn’t get to these boxes so I had to keep, and so he had tapes of my coaches and so he got to get all that material. And then what he did, he said he told me Jack I did not mimic you what I did was internalize is and then play the role as I saw it so what you see on the screen is Matthew McConaughey with all that material portraying what he would be like on it. Now some of the mannerism in there uh at the spring hill cemetery are very much like what I was like, now on the side lines he’s much more animated then I was but I think he did a brilliant job with the movie, just an absolutely brilliant job of pulling together and having the perspective of what was going on and the passion and I was very proud. This movie is not a football movie, this movie is about hope and faith and perseverance and that’s the lesson I think you’ll come out of this movie with is that uh if you’re faced with adversity and you have hope and faith and perseverance that regardless of those circumstances you can prevail and go to success and I think that’s the message that this is all about because when I went there I thought I was rebuilding a football team, I quickly found out there was 21 boosters on there, 4 doctors and there wives, state senators, city councilmen, uhm Dean of Admissions, Director of Athletics, there were leadership voids in the community and then 70 children without one parent, 18 without two parents, uh administration staff gone, football team, 37 players, 5 coaches, sports information directors, media people like yourself were on the plane, radio personality on the plan, trainers mangers, that whole void, was within the whole community so it was very painful for everybody and I know after we won that first home game, after we went into the locker room and it looks like a Hollywood movie with one second to go we throw a touch down pass but that is exactly what transpired and afterwards they threw everybody in the shower including the priest, we went out there about an hour and a half later, 2/3 of that stadium was still hugging and crying because everybody had somebody on that plane that they new was there friend or relative, a player so that was a very emotional game.

Sound Bite: Robert Patrick
McG, McG’s a buddy of mine uhm he asked me if I would play this part, I ran into him at the Golden Globes last year and he said uh I’m doing this movie We Are Marshall I said I remember that he said I’d like you to play the head coach, unfortunately you’re going to die early on but I’d really like you to so it. And I said I’ll do it and we committed on the spot and I hadn’t read the script and uh I’m here. You know I’m loyal like that to directors that uh, that I like working with and uhm and if somebody thinks of me for something I’ll usually jump in there for em.

B-Roll – Matthew Fox

Sound Bite: Kate Mara
She was based on afew different woman, a few different cheerleaders who went to Marshall and uh I had the opportunity to meet a few of them before we started shooting, they invited me over to there house for dinner. And it was just an incredible experience, I don’t think I’ll ever, you know I’ve never been in a true story before and having the opportunity to meet these woman was really inspiring.

B-Roll - Matthew McConaughey across the street with fans,

Sound Bite: Brian Geraghty
Yeah there was several people that influenced me but uh we thought that people were embarrassed to you know, that the kind of people that this character was based on that it wasn’t really fair to approach them with this cause its, you know its hard enough as an actor to play this role, you know I want to throw the touch down and get the game pass and win the game but uh it was part of the story that needed to be told and I was up for the challenge and McG came up and said well you don’t look like a football player and I said cool just let me read this thing and then we read the thing and he said you don’t look like a football player but uh he’s like I like what you’re doing and you really understand the story I’m trying to tell so you want to make this movie with me. I said I’d be honored you know to tell a really good story and emotional story that important. You know we don’t often get the times as actors to do something like that so it certainly stretched me as an actor and a human being.

Sound Bite: McG
Well I was looking to expand my horizons and grow as a filmmaker, I wanted to become the best storyteller I possibly could and I was brought into the creative writers council, the DGA chaired by Stephen Soderbergh and you know I looked to my left and its Peter ? and I look across to the table and its Michael Mann and right over there is David Fincher and those guys kind of came all together and said look you’ve had some success but what are you going to do to show some growth and I realized that I did indeed want to show growth and expand my horizons sort of in the spirit of Ong Lee or for that matter Soderbergh, Spielberg, people that work in a great many genres and this script spoke to me and I thought this is my chance and I went to Huntington West Virginia three times before I agreed to do the picture just to try to absorb the spirit of the community and uh became very very charmed of the power and the grit and guts of the town and I felt compelled to try and tell the story to the best of my ability and go a hundred and 80 degrees away from everything I’ve been known for.

B-Roll - Matthew McConaughey with coach, Matthew McConaughey, lance armstrong

Sound Bite: Matthew McConaughey
We premiered it two nights ago, I’m not going ot say it was pretty heavy, it was pretty what’s the word, there’s a lot of levity, you could feel the, it was human, I can say that the feeling in the room in the theatre, I mean there were tears dropping uhm , overall we’ve got a hundred percent thank you’s. Manly people going yeah man, that’s our story thanks for telling it well, thanks for not exaggerating it, thanks for not patronizing it you know and that’s the critics I’ve been most excited about man.