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Nov 19, 2021 · Her mother confessed that she only learned about Richard’s first five children when his son, Richard III, showed up at the family’s door.
- Will Smith Leaves It All on The Court in King Richard
The film tracks the Williams family throughout the early to...
- Will Smith Leaves It All on The Court in King Richard
Nov 17, 2021 · If Richard crossed a line, it’s highly doubtful his daughters would produce King Richard in his honor. Be a father first. Seems like the winning formula.
- Sean Gregory
- Richard Williams’ Early Coaching of Venus and Serena
- Did Richard Fight A Gang Harassing Venus and Serena?
- Did Richard See A Gang Member Shot in Front of him?
- Did Richard Write A Plan For His Daughters’ Success Before They Were Even born?
- Pulling Venus and Serena Off The Junior Tournament Circuit
- Did Richard and Venus Turn Down A Nike Deal?
- Does Venus Really Speak Four Languages?
- How Many Children Does Richard Have Anyway?
We see the young Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) hitting balls on the Compton court at night as the rain buckets down. A neighbor says she’s going to call social services on Richard for making the girls play in such terrible weather. In fact, the sisters were expected to start as early as 6 a.m. and then return after school, play...
As the girls play on a tennis court, a gang starts trash-talking their older sister, Yetunde. Richard storms over and tells him off, creating bad blood, with the gang hanging around the court menacingly. One night after practice as Richard is gathering tennis balls, they beat him mercilessly. By all accounts this actually happened. Describing the c...
After the beating, Richard takes the gun he has access to in his job as a security guard and goes hunting for the gang leader. When the gang leader goes into a fast food restaurant, Richard takes out his gun and seems to be preparing to shoot but then a car comes out of nowhere and shoots the gangbanger in a drive-by. According to Richard’s memoir,...
Richard goes to the country club where Paul Cohen (Tony Goldwyn)—John McEnroe and Pete Sampras’s coach—is holding practice sessions. He persuades Cohen to watch the girls hit a few balls and tells the coach he wrote a 78-page plan to make them champions before they were born. He later says the same thing to Macci. This matches Williams’ own account...
After teenage tennis prodigy Jennifer Capriati is arrested for possession of marijuanaand is appearing increasingly vulnerable to burnout, Richard pulls Venus and Serena off the junior circuit even though Venus is storming up the rankings and being approached by agents, declaring they won’t play any more tournaments until they turn pro. Macci (alon...
When Venus enters her first pro tournament, the Bank of the West Classic in Oakland, at 14, she receives an offer of a $3 million contract from Nike, who want to build a brand around her. Once again taking a contrarian view, Richard says they’re not going to accept the first offer they receive, although Macci, who brokered the deal, warns him that ...
Richard tells Macci that the girls’ education comes first and that Venus speaks four languages because “Venus don’t want to be broke.” While in junior high, Williams, a straight-A student, studied French and German, later learning Italian, which in 2019 she described as “my best language,”adding “the surprising language that I know a decent amount ...
Richard and Brandy have a big fight during which Brandy says Richard seems to think he’s created the girls’ success all by himself, ignoring the crucial role she’s played. When Richard walks out of the room, she reminds him that that’s what he does—walk away from failed businesses and his other kids, recalling her surprise when a long-lost son of R...
- Ellin Stein
Apr 28, 2024 · In a profile in The New Yorker, the real Williams recalls ripping the heads off of Venus' dolls to discourage early motherhood and forbidding his daughters from dating, which isn't seen in King Richard.
May 1, 2024 · 138. What Is ‘King Richard’ About? Initially set in the late 1980s, King Richard explores the ambitious efforts by Richard Williams to turn his two daughters into tennis champions. Raised...
- Liam Gaughan
- Senior Author
- Reinaldo Marcus Green
Jul 13, 2022 · As reported by People, Venus and Serena think of their mother as the "backbone" of the family, giving her credit for supporting their family financially when Richard decided he wouldn't work...
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Mar 3, 2022 · The biopic gets its title from the father of the Williams sisters, but it's Ellis' turn as their mother that feels like a revelation.
