JS: It was actually one of the hardest scenes to write, because you have to go from Kevin’s character not buying into anything. Keep it out, pop it out.ĮSQ: There’s so much riding on that scene-we have to buy in to Kevin’s obsession with this opal. I was like, Holy sh-īS: What’s funny is Sandler started to do the thing with his teeth like a player would with a mouth guard. KG: He was walking, and he was… it was eerie. I don’t know how much of that shit I was sitting there like, Goddamnit. And then he would seem like he was Howard, but then he would start laughing. Adam was doing this shit where he was like Howard for a little bit. KG: It’s no bullshit-that’s my first time seeing Adam like that. KEVIN GARNETT: That’s when they walked in together, right? ![]() We were shooting the first scene where Howard meets Kevin. We talked to Garnett and the Safdie brothers over the phone about how they pulled it off.ĮSQUIRE: When was the first time Adam Sandler, in full Harold mode, got in a room with Kevin Garnett?īENNY SAFDIE: The first time he’s introduced in the movie was the first scene we shot. The Safdies were just the first ones to point a fancy movie camera at it. That mini-KG history at the beginning? It’s all to say: Kevin Garnett was a character actor for nearly 1,500 NBA games. His obsession with the opal feels entirely real, and every bit of Garnett, all six feet and eleven inches of him, fits right in with the Safdies’ whirlwind movie-making style, which operates at a baseline 110-mile-per-hour speed limit. With only a TV movie acting credit to his name, Garnett managed to channel the manic intensity of someone who would, you know, kneel and go WOOF on the court into a fictional version of himself so intense that you fear for Howard when they cross paths. Garnett’s performance, really, might be something we haven’t seen before. But this isn’t LeBron James in Trainwreck, a cute cameo where we went, Holy shit, he’s not bad! and giggled when he yammed on Bill Hader. So good that you’ll see a mass of stories like this one, the kind we all write when we find out an athlete can do something other than move fast and jump high. ![]() Like will keep doing this for a long time good. Kevin Garnett is very, very good in Uncut Gems. He really takes to the opal, so much that his obsession with it becomes Uncut Gems’s powder keg, kicking off a tristate area-spanning romp that weaves in footage from that slugfest of a playoff series with fake postgame interviews with Garnett. There, he gets his hands on an ultra-rare uncut black opal, which he is so spellbound by that he literally sees his life flash before his eyes. We see him early on, when he goes jewelry-shopping at Howard’s store. Garnett plays himself in the film, circa the 2012 Eastern Conference Semifinals-which would turn out to be among his final games in a Boston Celtics uniform. We Ranked Every Single Adam Sandler Movie.Uncut Gems moves so fast, and is so damn loud and explosive and good that it’ll break your brain just a little bit. Good Time’s Josh and Benny Safdie, who are basketball superfans-specifically of the Knicks variety (condolences)-themselves, directed the film, which stars a nitro-fueled, out-of-his-mind Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, a jeweler in New York City’s Diamond District. The small, strange pocket of NBA history that belongs to Garnett (who retired in 2016) is important if you’re planning to see Uncut Gems, which is in select theaters today. ![]() Really think back for a minute-which Kevin Garnett do you remember?ĭo you think of the shot-blocking NBA champion and future hall-of-famer? Or the guy who, in the middle of a game, got on his knees and barked at another player? Who mixed coffee with his Gatorade? Who head-butted a hole in a wall because he got so goddamned hyped watching Making the Band? The GOAT trash-talker who allegedly told Carmelo Anthony that his wife, LaLa, tasted like Honey Nut Cheerios?! Because, yeah, he's a historically dominant center-but also an all-time hoops personality that could destroy a dude with just a couple words.
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