The Indigenous actress Jessica matten, star of new Netflix movie Rez Ball, talks about her decades-long efforts to prevent suicide in tribal communities.
Content warning for discussions of suicide. With backing from executive producer Lebron James, the new Netflix movie Rez Ball is creating some major buzz. Not because it’s some pro-athlete-studded film à la 2022’s Hustle with Adam Sandler or the 2021 Space Jam remake, starring the king of the court himself. Quite the contrary — the highly anticipated film features many young Native American talents who are making their silver screen debut.
You can’t help but feel like you let someone down, but it also ignites this fire within you to do better, to fight, to go the distance, to succeed. So you can see the parallels between my real life and the character I play in Rez Ball. TV: How did you and your fellow cast members deal with the trauma of addressing this heavy topic? JM: The day we shot the scene where Heather tells the team that one of their players suicide was a very heavy day for everyone.
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