PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS…ROB BROWN
Rob Brown brings the story of grid iron legend Ernie Davis to the screen.
Presented by Electronic Urban Report.
Are you ready for some football? Are you ready for the story of college gridiron legend Ernie Davis?
“The Express: The Ernie Davis Story” opens this weekend, starring Rob Brown as the Davis, the first African-American to win the coveted Heisman Trophy.
The film follows the triumphant and tragic story of the college football hero, who changed the face of American football.
“The Express” will bring the story to a new generation of sports fans and movie goers, as it has for the lead actor Brown, who told reporters that he didn’t actually know too much about Davis working on the film.
“I knew he went to Syracuse. I knew he won the Heisman. That was it,” Brown said. But the young actor continued that he was immediately attracted to the role because of the amazing and inspirational story.
“What didn’t attract me?” he said. In addition to a good script, based on the incredible true story, the film also has a powerful and acclaimed cast including Charles S. Dutton and Dennis Quaid. What might have discouraged Brown is the fact that he would be taking on a true story; the role of a real person.
“It was a gift and a curse as an artist because there was no blueprint to go off of,” Brown said. He said that he learned much of Davis mostly by watching game film, as there was/is not much media coverage of Davis.
“But I [had] the flexibility to be an artist,” he continued. “The thing that’s daunting is the responsibility associated with the role – to him, his family, Syracuse, to the (Cleveland) Browns organization, to Jim Brown. With that responsibility, I took it on because it was a dream role and an honor to walk in his shoes for a little while.”
Brown, who catapulted onto the scene in 2000 in “Finding Forrester” with Sean Connery, also considered the film a “dream role” because….
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