Marsai Martin and Omari Harwick play to win in ‘Fantasy Football’

CNN
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The new movie “Fantasy Football” capitalizes on a few of its stars pure expertise.

Marsai Martin channels a number of girl-boss power enjoying Callie Coleman, a tech-savvy younger girl whose father’s lengthy profession within the NFL lands him with the Atlanta Falcons crew.

Her manufacturing firm is behind the family-friendly movie. (Martin, 18, set a Guinness World Record in 2020 because the youngest Hollywood govt producer to work on a significant manufacturing.)

She and costars Omari Hardwick (Bobby Coleman), Rome Flynn (Anderson Fisher), together with the movie’s director Anton Cropper, just lately spoke with CNN after they appeared at a Falcons sport held at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

It was acquainted environment because the group shot loads of scenes for his or her film there.

The plot facilities round Callie’s father, performed by Hardwick, seemingly on the finish of his profession when his daughter discovers she will management his strikes by way of enjoying the Madden soccer online game.

Martin sees the function by which her character additionally makes associates with the robotics membership crew members at her new faculty as extra than simply enjoyable with its constructive message about range in know-how.

“I’ve met so many girls who are in to technology and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) or are all about Black girls coding,” she stated. “It’s important to shine a light on it because it’s a very big deal. It’s all about representation.”

For Hardwick, the challenge gave him the chance to lean into his soccer roots.

Before he grew to become well-known for his work in roles like James “Ghost” St. Patrick on “Power,” the Savannah, Georgia native performed as a defensive again on the University of Georgia and later tried out with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent.

“It feels incredible to be right back here at home,” Hardwick stated. “This is obviously my hometown team…but I never got to play for the Falcons. With this film, I got to do my thing.”

Hardwick additionally identified that it was acceptable that they had been attending a sport by which the Atlanta Falcons had been enjoying the Chicago Bears provided that Rome Flynn, who performs Bobby Coleman’s rival, the hotshot younger quarterback Anderson Fisher, grew up in Chicago.

Flynn informed CNN that not like their characters, he and Hardwick had no competitors between them as main males.

“It’s all love,” he stated smiling. “We respect each other and we brought out the best in each other.”

“Fantasy Football” debuts Friday on Paramount+.