Will Smith hits a winner with King Richard. Playing the driven, eccentric and controversial father of budding tennis prodigies Venus and Serena Williams in the late 1980s and 1990s, the protean act…
. Playing the driven, eccentric and controversial father of budding tennis prodigies Venus and Serena Williams in the late 1980s and 1990s, the protean actor finds a new gear as he inhabits a complicated and gutsy man who trailblazes a path for two highly talented girls in their early teens in a sport where Black aspirants were virtually unheard of, especially in the female ranks.
“Venus and Serena gonna shake up the world,” Richard proclaims early on as he puts the two oldest of his five daughters through the rigors of constant practice on the untended and sometimes dangerous tennis courts to be found in the hood. It’s not entirely clear how Richard manages to support his girls and wife Oracene , and there are occasional unnerving assaults on this tight family by local thugs whose preferred sports clearly do not include hitting balls over a net.
In the face of widespread skepticism, Richard pushes his girls along, and at one point they go to a posh SoCal club where the young John McEnroe and Pete Sampras rule the roost. People begin to notice the sisters, but when push comes to shove, Richard decides that, for now, he’s got to put all his cards on Venus, leaving the almost equally qualified Serena behind. All along, the man is contradictory in surprising ways, goading them at one moment, stressing the need to stay humble at the next.
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