Josh Safdie

A footnote of history was interesting.

It was owned by the first Black business owner in the Times Square district.

That's who, his name is Herwald Lawrence, and that's who George Griffin plays.

But at this place, which my great uncle played at, he said there was like an orphanage for outcasts.

And they were all these wiry kind of proto-ADD, super smart people who got terrible grades because they just did not care for school.

Astrophysicists and criminals, motley crew.

And I saw, I was like, immediately when I was realizing, I want to know what these guys looked like.

And I typed in like 1949 British Open.

And I immediately see these guys, young guys, wire, wiry, bouncing all over the place.

And I immediately called Timmy and I was like, this is the project we can do together.

And I said it weirdly.

I don't know why I was like so fearful of the idea, period.

So I put it to Peter Gabriel.

And I have the touch that that feeling time I like is the rush hour because I like to touch the rush.

And and that was the that was the beginning of it.

And I just thought I was like, if there's any sport, this would be perfect for for Timmy.

And he and he and he spent like seven years.

I remember he played me early on six years, six years.

Yeah, because he was doing it in tandem with Dylan.

And I remember he played me and my wife.