Filmmaker Garrett Bradley explains how she earned the tennis champion's trust: 'I tried to reinforce that I wasn’t press as much as possible.'
The newsworthy tennis phenom is the subject of an atmospheric Netflix docuseries. It will leave you feeling as though you’ve gotten to know her.
The athlete and the filmmaker first met at the 2019 U.S. Open. Bradley had never made a movie with someone she didn’t have a prior relationship with, and said she was initially “out of [her] comfort zone” working with someone she didn’t know. But over the course of a day together in Queens, New York, Bradley shared her vision with Osaka. Because the tennis player was barely an adult, Bradley said she was wary of attempting to create a definitive portrait of her.
In conversation with The Times, Bradley spoke about a journey that took her and the athlete to New York Fashion Week, a Black Lives Matter protest, the Australian Open and Haiti, where Osaka’s father was raised.L.A. Times columnists Helene Elliott, LZ Granderson, Dylan Hernández and Bill Plaschke discuss Naomi Osaka, the role of media, athletes’ mental health and more.
We didn’t create any ground rules, per se, and I actually didn’t overthink it too much. ... There’s a balance you play in making a documentary of what’s really worth it. Is it more worth it to capture something, or to support a person? First and foremost, I care about the people I’m working with, so I make decisions based on my own empathy and instinct at any given moment. I think that might be a controversial thing to say as a director, but it’s always the way I work.
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