Posted on Mar 17, 2022
'King Richard,' the Oscar-nominated film, authentically depicts the Williams' history
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King Richard is up for Best Picture and five other categories at this year's Academy Awards. It's the story of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams and their family. To give their stamp of approval to the production, Isha Price, one of the three older sisters, was on set every day to make sure the filmmakers told their story authentically.
"We've been approached different times about doing a movie, and it never seemed to be right because the story's still being written," Price says. "This script was different."
Price says her family appreciated how the film is really Venus Williams' origin story, before she won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five Wimbledon championships and four Olympic gold medals. And long before her little sister Serena won 23 Grand Slam singles titles of her own, seven Wimbledon championships and four Olympic gold medals.
"Serena is hands down the GOAT, she's the best has ever done it," says Price. "But even she said historically that that doesn't happen without Venus, that there had to be somebody to bust that door open."
King Richard is up for Best Picture and five other categories at this year's Academy Awards. It's the story of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams and their family. To give their stamp of approval to the production, Isha Price, one of the three older sisters, was on set every day to make sure the filmmakers told their story authentically.
"We've been approached different times about doing a movie, and it never seemed to be right because the story's still being written," Price says. "This script was different."
Price says her family appreciated how the film is really Venus Williams' origin story, before she won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five Wimbledon championships and four Olympic gold medals. And long before her little sister Serena won 23 Grand Slam singles titles of her own, seven Wimbledon championships and four Olympic gold medals.
"Serena is hands down the GOAT, she's the best has ever done it," says Price. "But even she said historically that that doesn't happen without Venus, that there had to be somebody to bust that door open."
'King Richard,' the Oscar-nominated film, authentically depicts the Williams' history
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Nice share PO1 William "Chip" Nagel! I saw the movie & I thought it was pretty well done. It was interesting and informative of what the Williams' sisters had to go through growing up on the tennis circuit from beginner to becoming All-Pros on the Women's tennis circuit.
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