Solomon Hughes plays Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Quincy Isaiah plays Magic Johnson in HBO’s forthcoming drama about the 1980s Lakers, “Winning Time.”
Quincy Isaiah as Magic Johnson and Solomon Hughes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in “Winning Time.”
He added, “I think it’s a fully realized portrait. No human being is one particular thing. We don’t do anything in ‘Winning Time’ that is disparaging, or at least that’s not the intent. This is done out of love and appreciation for the Lakers and the game itself.” “Since I was a kid, I’ve been a Kareem kid,” the latter piped in. “His autobiography ‘Giant Steps,’ along with ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X,’ were some of the first books I ever read. To play someone that I’ve admired my whole life is just surreal.”
“It’s tough, I’m not going to lie,” Isaiah said. “You’re playing someone who is beloved, a hero. It’s tough to see that the people you look up to are human. But it’s also helpful. It shows that they’re not that different from you. You can mess up, make mistakes and still come out on top.”
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