LeBron James's Memoir Shooting Stars Comes To The Screen

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LeBron James's 2009 memoir 'Shooting Stars' comes to the screen thanks to Peacock, and Young Hollywood catches up with the talented young actors via Zoom who helped bring it life, including the man playing the man himself, Marquis "Mookie" Cook, as well as Caleb McLaughlin, Avery S. Wills Jr., Khalil Everage, and Scoot Henderson! The actors reveal to us their favorite basketball players and teams growing up, plus they tell us who among them is the best video game player, who is most likely to best LeBron himself one-on-one, and more!
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Okay, what's up? I'm drawn with Young Hollywood. How are you guys? How you doing? What's going on? I'm doing good. How are you? Good. You guys look so good. Oh, you. You look good yourself. Thank you. Okay, are you Miami or are you the Nuggets? Nuggets. Whatever team you with. All right. I I want the Nuggets. I want Denver, so. All right, let me stop. Let me stop. All right, okay. So, in an interview, I heard that you guys played a lot of video games on set. So, who's the best at the video games? AJ. I'm not gonna lie, no. Scoo. Scoo. Scoo and AJ, bro. AJ. Oh God. Scoo was kinda like AJ. AJ was the best. He don't got it. You don't have it. You don't. You don't. AJ. AJ's a technical person.
I'm not gonna lie. No, Scoo was blowing us out. 30. He was talking. I ain't gonna lie, you beat me a couple times but I started watching you. I got used to it. AJ was beating. I like Ping Pong yesterday. AJ was beating y'all, bro. Hey bro, can you change my screen back to her, bro? I don't wanna see him no more. Bro. Bro, don't. Okay, so AJ. Stay professional. Back to back. AJ, AJ is the best of the video games. But what video games do you play? What video games? Do I play? I'll be playing um 2K, GTA, and Call of Duty. Are you the best at Call of Duty? Is that the game that you guys played or what? No, we're not. I'm not the best at Call of Duty. I'll be I'll be I'm not gonna lie.
I'll be on campaign. I do. Yeah. You look like you play campaign. You play campaign. You don't play the game, bro. You suck. He says I play campaign. Okay, and who for each of you, you all answer. So, who was your favorite basketball player prior to booking the project? And who's your favorite team? My favorite team, the Knicks, prior to it. Um, prior to the movie, uh, it was LeBron before. Uh, favorite team. I don't really got a favorite team to be honest. Whatever team Bron was on, probably I was like rooting for for real. Got you. What? Uh, I think my favorite player it was probably Kobe or Bron. You know, LA Dogs, but favorite team, I never had a favorite team ever. So.
Uh, favorite player, Steph Curry. Favorite team, Golden State Warriors. You don't play nothing like Steph. All right, that's cool. Um, All right, it's crazy. Favorite player favorite player Shy. Um, and my favorite team is Bulls. Bro, your favorite player need to be baby baby what's his name? Baby Davis. Waynedavis. He said another one. I said I said that's who she is and I play like. I play like Shy. You got game though. You got he tough. I'm never said. You said what? He's Wayne Wayne Davis is tough. He got. You ain't seen him in the program. Oh, he got bad. I'm saying, that needs to be your favorite player. Your twin. Okay. And crazy.
How many how many of the basketball scenes did you guys actually play? Or was that all you guys? Yeah, 100%. I stunt double. Yeah, our stunt double wasn't right. It was they just didn't want to hoop. That's what it was. Shout out to them though. They did. Oh yeah. Shout out to them. They can't they couldn't hoop. They can't. Not like you guys. Not like the original. Not like the original. Nah. We would have runs though. We would have runs where we would have times where we would just go up down the court and we'd be washing whoever it was on the other team for real. Yeah. And but sometimes it get competitive though. No. Facts. Yeah. Okay, so LeBron and his friends were called the Fab Four.
So, do you guys feel like you're the 2023 version of the Fab Four? For sure. I I'd take that. I'd take that uh label. That's for sure. And if we was actually on a high school team right now, we we we be the best. Oh yeah, we'd be the best team in the country. Um What you saying? What you gotta say? What you gotta say? Me personally? You don't think we would be the best if we was on a high school team? No, I think I think you guys would be the best. You got it. He was talking. Oh no. I'm playing with you. I'm playing with you, Scoo. That was messing up. I didn't mean to say it like that. I didn't mean to say like that. That's bad. We're on the team. Stop being rude to her.
I mean if we got Mookie. How much Mookie average? 30. 30. Mookie. Yo. How much you average? How much you average? It's 15, dog. What? How am I gonna average 10? You gonna average 15? I average. No, you're on the paints.
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I'm gonna ask a question. That's a that's a good question. What kind of bond? Come on, bro. What do you mean by bond? He said What do you mean by bond? What do you mean by bond? Oh my God. All right, we gotta go. He started talking about the bond. Oh, he said you didn't give him the ball, what do you mean by bond? No. I mean, we are like Bond-y or like No, Bond-y, like Bond-y, the character who he played. We were like bond-y. We are like bond-y. Yeah. Okay. All right, well, that's my time. That's my time. Thank you guys so much and congratulations, the film is amazing. Thank you. Thank you.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Marquis "Mookie" Cook
Plays LeBron James in 'Shooting Stars' and is interviewed.
- Caleb McLaughlin
Actor in 'Shooting Stars' and is interviewed.
- Avery S. Wills Jr.
Actor in 'Shooting Stars' and is interviewed.
- Khalil Everage
Actor in 'Shooting Stars' and is interviewed.
- Scoot Henderson
Actor in 'Shooting Stars' and is interviewed.
- LeBron James
His memoir 'Shooting Stars' is adapted, and he is mentioned as a favorite player.
- AJ
Mentioned by cast as the best video game player and an actor in the film.
- Kobe [Bryant]
Mentioned by a cast member as a favorite basketball player.
- Steph Curry
Mentioned by a cast member as a favorite basketball player.
- Shy
Mentioned by a cast member as a favorite basketball player (likely Shai Gilgeous-Alexander).
- Wayne Davis
Mentioned playfully by a cast member as a suggested favorite player.
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