“I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.”
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It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
