Breaking news:LeBron Jamesis very good at basketball.
“I said to the person who was throwing the alley-oop, ‘Don’t throw it too high.’
And [James] was like, ‘Don’t throw it too high?!’
‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ star LeBron James and director Malcolm D. Lee on set.Justin Lubin/Warner Bros.
What didMichael Jordansay inThe Last Dance?
‘I took that personally.'”
(Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, and Diana Taurasi are among the hoopers reportedly costarring.)
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But that didn’t mean James didn’t need to always be prepared for unexpected challenges from Oscar-nominated costars.
And he’d throw it back, like, ‘Okay, let’s go.’
He was always game for that."
“I’m like, ‘You know I played the GOAT, right?
You really have to D up.’
And then [he] shows you that you have no chance.”
But maybe Cheadle was also just wearing James down a little bit before he brought in a young ringer.
“[James] and C.J.
went at it all the time,” Cheadle says, referencing James’ onscreen son Cedric Joe.
“They were always competing and him telling C.J.
moves to work on, and it was just such a cool vibe.
He’s such a big kid in many ways.”
Well, acting opposite your idol and beating him in a game has to be challenging that now.
“We definitely went at it a couple times,” Joe says.
He did give me tips on different layups and stuff.
I remember coming home from shooting and everybody was like, ‘Oh, so you gotthetalk from LeBron?’
Because of how I was playing.
It was pretty dope getting that advice from my greatest of all-time."
Space Jam: A New Legacypremieres July 16 in theaters and on HBO Max.
