'The Blind Side' producers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove are clarifying details about their film after the “familial ups and downs.” NFL player Michael Oher accused the Tuohy family of not sharing box office profits.
earned by the Tuohys and Oher and addressed the “many mischaracterizations and uninformed opinions” that have emerged over the portrayal of Oher’s story in their film. we saw the better angels of human nature,” they said. “We saw it in the extraordinary courage that Michael Oher demonstrated in accepting the Tuohys’ generosity not as a handout, or as his saviors, but as a way through which he could improve his own life.
The producers continued: “Michael’s academic accomplishments and athletic achievements demonstrate this. His raising of his now, who shall know a life of possibility the likes of which Michael never knew as a child, is the ultimate testament to Michael’s own strength and courage.”was a film that no major studio would make, back when Alcon financed the film in 2009. The prevailing ‘wisdom’ was that a football movie starring a woman would not appeal to football fans, it had too much football to appeal to families, and that movies starring Black actors don’t work overseas.
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