{"id":12763,"date":"2022-03-24T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1613844"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:41:20","slug":"john-c-reilly-explains-why-he-finally-stopped-resisting-tv-roles","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/john-c-reilly-explains-why-he-finally-stopped-resisting-tv-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"John C Reilly explains why he finally stopped resisting TV roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 24 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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John C Reilly has done it all. He\u2019s starred in more comedies than you can count, has appeared in the Marvel universe, and has been nominated for an Oscar and multiple Golden Globes. But bar recent comedy show Moonbase 8, what he hasn\u2019t done is taken on a major TV role \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n

Reilly is appearing in the new series coming to Sky Atlantic and NOW, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, about the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers basketball team.<\/p>\n

Reilly plays the owner of the team Jerry Buss, and speaking to RadioTimes.com<\/a> in an exclusive Big RT Interview<\/strong>, he explained why he was \u201calways kind of resistant to TV\u201d, and how one man changed that \u2013 Ben Stiller.<\/p>\n

Reilly said: \u201cI came up in movies and plays and I just thought television, for a long time, had a stigma of being low quality or rushed. Then I saw Escape at Dannemora that Ben Stiller directed and I was like, \u2018Wow.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course if you have Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette and Paul Dano you want to watch them for seven hours or 10 hours. So that show single-handedly really turned me around about TV and its possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reilly went on to describe how his experience on Winning Time differed to his work in film.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cFilm has always been a director\u2019s medium, almost like a short story in a way, it has to be so concise. Everything leads to the next plot point or has to do this arc and there you are, that\u2019s a two-hour movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd a lot of times as an actor you have all this research that you\u2019ve done but it never makes it onscreen. You\u2019re reading stories about what it was like at dinner with the family that night but there\u2019s no room in the movie for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut on a television show or a streaming series, actors get to give a lot more and the art-form itself is almost becoming a more actor-based, or character-based medium. You get into the backstories of people and that\u2019s really interesting.\u201d<\/p>

Alongside Reilly, Winning Time stars Quincy Isaiah, Jason Clarke,\u00a0Gaby Hoffmann,\u00a0and\u00a0Adrien Brody amongst many others, and is executive produced by Adam McKay, who also directed episode 1.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to RadioTimes.com<\/strong> to read the full chat with John C Reilly in his Big RT Interview soon.<\/p>\n

Winning Time: The Rise of The Lakers Dynasty airs on Sky Atlantic<\/a> and streaming service NOW on 28th March.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Find out more about how to sign up for Sky Atlantic here<\/a>. Looking for something to watch tonight? Check out our TV Guide<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n

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