Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews the Lee Matthews Podcast
Speaker 1: more what you hear Weekday Have to Do is on
Speaker 1: the Drive. Although you've seen him in a lot of
Speaker 1: films like Disney's The Big Green, Son in Law, Punk's
Speaker 1: Ricky Six, Very Mean Men, Lifeblood, and many more, Patrick
Speaker 1: Renna is mostly known as Ham in the sports classic
Speaker 1: The Sandlot, and he's back with another baseball story in
Speaker 1: You Gotta Believe out now in theaters. It's great to
Speaker 1: have you Patrick Renna along with us today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, how you doing. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So what will we see in You Gotta Believe? This
Speaker 1: is more than just a sports story?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sure is. I mean that's a great part
Speaker 2: of it. You know, it's about the two thousand and
Speaker 2: two Fort Worth Little League team that made it way
Speaker 2: further than any one could have even imagined. But then
Speaker 2: there's another, you know, really heartfelt you know, family store
Speaker 2: had a really cool message in in the title of the.
Speaker 3: Movie You Gotta Believe.
Speaker 2: And it's about the Ratlift family and the Kelly family
Speaker 2: and you know, overcoming some you know, pretty uh intense
Speaker 2: life life moments that unfortunately they went through. But I
Speaker 2: suppose finding at the end of it.
Speaker 3: The story and you Gotta believe, you know, and.
Speaker 1: That inspiration co stars Luke Wilson. By the way, Greg kinnear,
Speaker 1: along with Sarah Gaddin, h Kelly Kellysy and Molly Parker.
Speaker 1: Patrick Renna is also in its You Gotta Believe? What
Speaker 1: role do you play?
Speaker 2: I played Cliff, So when I met the real Cliff
Speaker 2: last night, that was pretty cool because it was the
Speaker 2: premiere here in Fort Worth. But I played the you know,
Speaker 2: I suppose the superintendent or the he kind of run.
Speaker 3: The whole sports program at the school.
Speaker 2: So Greg kennears and as well, I didn't I don't
Speaker 2: know if you had mentioned him, but he played the
Speaker 2: coach of the team, and so my role is to
Speaker 2: convince him to take this group of kids that you know,
Speaker 2: maybe it will be an embarrassment for everyone involved to
Speaker 2: even stow up to the you know, the city championships,
Speaker 2: and I have to convince him to do it. So,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously glad he did it because then they
Speaker 2: went all the way.
Speaker 1: You know, I as a child that played little league
Speaker 1: baseball for two years, and I don't know if there
Speaker 1: was a more pathetic, abysmal, unathletic and uncoordinated baseball player
Speaker 1: ever made. But somehow, somehow I made it through.
Speaker 2: Well. Isn't that the beauty of baseball is? No matter
Speaker 2: how bad you are at it, you're you're gonna make
Speaker 2: it through.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Uh. Later I discovered that, uh me being
Speaker 1: kind of the encouraging one, encouraging all the other players
Speaker 1: to do well, pat them on the back when they
Speaker 1: made a run, that that was my better job.
Speaker 2: There you go, radio, Yeah, found you found your voice.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Patrick renn as with us. You remember him as Ham
Speaker 1: in the Sand Lot. His new movie is you Gotta
Speaker 1: believe even if you didn't play little league baseball, you
Speaker 1: can relate to these stories, can't you?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I agree?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 2: You know, baseball also is you know, people ask why
Speaker 2: baseball is so uh the sport that Hollywood kind of
Speaker 2: makes movies about. But I think also the sport is
Speaker 2: very easy to follow, no matter if you're you know,
Speaker 2: just an avid sports fan or to someone just you know,
Speaker 2: watching with the family. Everyone knows you hit it and
Speaker 2: it goes over the fence, you win. So uh, I
Speaker 2: think that's what makes that sport in itself very watchable.
Speaker 2: And whether you love baseball or not. Yeah, there's this
Speaker 2: this heartwarming story of these kids that have no business
Speaker 2: making it getting all the way.
Speaker 1: So especially as little leaguers. That's where that's the real uh.
Speaker 1: And this is this this is different than the bad
Speaker 1: News bears, where you have these scrappy kids who are
Speaker 1: who are well are they? I don't know. Maybe are
Speaker 1: the kids on this team scrappy and underprivileged?
Speaker 2: I don't think it's as much underprivileged as it is
Speaker 2: sort of how you describe yourself. Maybe they did.
Speaker 3: They weren't the most talented.
Speaker 2: I think they were obviously pretty good, and when they
Speaker 2: started playing as a team, they really surprised everyone. But
Speaker 2: that's the most exciting part about it is they weren't
Speaker 2: the college prospect guys. They weren't, you know, they weren't
Speaker 2: getting scholarships to high schools and college they were you know,
Speaker 2: I don't. I think they were just the team that
Speaker 2: shouldn't have been there, and they banded together and became
Speaker 2: an all star team.
Speaker 1: Patrick ren Us with us you know him as Ham
Speaker 1: and the classic sand Lot, also son in Law, Bad Roomies,
Speaker 1: and many more. But you got to believe us out
Speaker 1: now and also co stars Greg Kinnear and Luke Wilson
Speaker 1: and many others Major production and also produced there in
Speaker 1: the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2: Really cool, and we had the premiere here in Fort Worth,
Speaker 2: and you know it's about Fort Worth, so coming back
Speaker 2: here is really special.
Speaker 1: Was a lot of it filmed in the same area,
Speaker 1: in the same maybe fields.
Speaker 3: I think they filmed some of it.
Speaker 2: What they could, you know, it's I think you have
Speaker 2: to move around and then find where the easiest places.
Speaker 3: Are to film. But I know that they.
Speaker 2: Did as much as they could, and then of course
Speaker 2: they wanted to have the screening and the premiere here.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't choose another city to release the film then
Speaker 2: back home.
Speaker 1: The movies based on the real life two thousand and
Speaker 1: two West Side Little League gold Stars from Fort Worth,
Speaker 1: so it does hit pretty close to home. Oh, our
Speaker 1: tye clever.
Speaker 2: You should put together a little pamphlet on all these
Speaker 2: little punge you got. I love.
Speaker 1: Yes, jeez, I'm going to hell Patrick, Renna, but you
Speaker 1: got to believe out now.
Speaker 3: I'll go with you.
Speaker 1: I'll drag this sure, sure. Yeah. As far as baseball
Speaker 1: is concerned, have you ever played competitively? I?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's just that's an interesting word you chose.
Speaker 3: Competitively.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It was definitely competitive in my mind
Speaker 2: against the other guys that maybe weren't college prospects themselves.
Speaker 2: But I played baseball. That was my sport. I never
Speaker 2: you know, I played in high school a little bit.
Speaker 3: I was in a smaller private school.
Speaker 2: But I made the team and I played second base.
Speaker 3: That was pretty decent.
Speaker 2: You know. Again, I didn't go to college for baseball,
Speaker 2: so I wasn't wasn't that good, But I definitely, you know,
Speaker 2: that's my sport, and I'm a generally athletic guy.
Speaker 1: Well, when I said competitively, I didn't know if in
Speaker 1: your acting career something like little league was something you
Speaker 1: could do.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I started. My first movie was Samlot, So
Speaker 2: I started at thirteen. So I had my whole childhood
Speaker 2: and played all those sports leading up to that. When
Speaker 2: I turned thirteen, I only did two.
Speaker 3: I did three movies from thirteen fourteen fifteen, so I
Speaker 3: was still in.
Speaker 2: School during all that time. And then when I turned
Speaker 2: sixteen in to drive. Then I started really getting into
Speaker 2: acting full time.
Speaker 3: I am upbringing Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well his name is Patrick Renn and
Speaker 1: you can see his work in the new release You
Speaker 1: Gotta Believe, which is out now and it's in theaters everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's about the two thousand and two West Side Little
Speaker 1: League Goals stars that come from behind. You'll have to
Speaker 1: see the movie to see how well they do. And
Speaker 1: we thank you for joining us today, Patrick Renna, thanks
Speaker 1: for having me, Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews,
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