'I've never meditated on a character for this length of time,' John C. Reilly says of playing the Lakers owner in HBO's 'Winning Time.'
departed while filming the show’s pilot episode. Shannon wasn’t comfortable with scenes that required Buss to break the fourth wall and address the camera directly. Having worked with Reilly on “Step Brothers” and “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” McKay knew Reilly wouldn’t have any such issues. In fact, the series’ first scene spotlights Reilly talking to the audience.
My motto is “Worry is negative prayer,” says John C. Reilly. “If you’re worrying, then you’re praying for the wrong thing to happen.” When McKay called, Reilly was unemployed, looking for work and finding nothing of interest. He has been there before. Reilly remembers landing a principal role in his first movie, Brian De Palma’s harrowing drama “Casualties of War,” and how it was a huge thing for his family in Chicago: “Holy cow! John’s going off to make a movie in Thailand!” Reilly earned great reviews when the film was released in 1989 and then, he recalls, “That was it. It was over. I’m unemployed again.
“And he turned to me and said, ‘We have enough carpenters in the family. Stick with what you’re doing,’” Reilly says. “And I was like, ‘Got it.’ He didn’t have to tell me twice.” and Martin Scorsese , earn an Oscar nomination for “Chicago” and voice the lead character in a Disney animated franchise series . He has made peace with the ups and downs of his job — “it keeps you in a humble place of gratitude” — adopting a blind faith that something great will eventually come his way.
Says Reilly: “When this [“Winning Time”] job came through, I was like, ‘This town is a g— casino. All you have to do is stay in the casino. Don’t leave. Just stay there and keep playing and eventually your number will come up.” He smiles. “And when it does, you’re like, ‘Incredible! It’s happened again!’”
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