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It sounds like “The Last Dance” is ready to spice things up next Sunday — based on what didn’t get left on the cutting room floor. The documentary’s director said he was “shocked” by some of the things that were allowed to stay in Episodes 7 and 8 — both by ESPN and Michael Jordan, …
It sounds like “The Last Dance” is ready to spice things up next Sunday — based on what didn’t get left on the cutting room floor.
The documentary’s director said he was “shocked” by some of the things that were allowed to stay in Episodes 7 and 8 — both by ESPN and Michael Jordan, who, of course, is the main subject but was also a partner in the project and had creative control over its content.
“And there’s things in there, there’s language in there that I’m shocked ESPN let us keep in, and there’s behavior in there that I’m shocked Michael let us keep in,” Jason Hehir said Monday on “The Dan Patrick Show.”
Hehir said Jordan “never” exercised his power to edit anything out of the 10-part series, including what’s shared in the next two episodes that focus on what it was like to play with and against Jordan.
“When you see the episodes next week, you’ll be surprised [that Jordan didn’t take out anything],” Hehir said. “Maybe he skipped Episode 7, but I can’t believe that he didn’t …”
The trailer for Sunday’s episodes shows that they will talk about the fight in practice between Jordan and Steve Kerr, but there are apparently more visuals that may pique the millions of viewers’ interests.
“The Steve Kerr thing is only a story that’s told, and he was eager to tell that, and Steve was, too,” Hehir said. “But this treasure trove of footage that we had from the NBA, what we tackle in Episodes 7 and 8 next week is what it was like to play with Michael, and then what it was like to play against him, in 7 and 8, respectively.
“And with the Michael stuff, man, I don’t know if you would want to practice with Michael Jordan. It would be fun to watch; I don’t know if it would be fun to interact with him during that because he is hard. He wanted to make those harder than any game could possibly be. And in the East back in the ’90s, that meant making it as rough and as mentally grueling as possible.”
