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02-02-2016, 03:30 PM
The Trial of the Century (http://abcnews.go.com/US/oj-simpson-trial-now/story?id=17377772) will finally make its small screen debut on Tuesday in FX’s new series "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson (http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/american-crime-story/episodes)."
The 10-episode series, which stars Cuba Gooding Jr. (as O.J. Simpson), David Schwimmer (as Robert Kardashian), Sarah Paulson (as Marcia Clark), John Travolta (as Robert Shapiro) and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (as Simpson’s friend and former teammate Al Cowlings), will focus on Simpson’s 1995 criminal trial (http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Timeline-OJ-Simpson-Murder-Civil-Trials-262363251.html).
The June 1994 chase, during which Cowlings drove Simpson's white Ford Bronco away from Los Angeles police, was a can't-look-away moment in America. It lasted roughly two hours on LA's 405 freeway (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-20-years-ago-oj-simpson-chase-20140617-story.html) and resulted in Simpson surrendering himself to authorities at his suburban mansion.
For Malcolm-Jamal Warner, recreating the moment was a surreal experience.
“We shut down the 77 freeway for a weekend and basically recreated the scene,” he said during an interview with The Huffington Post. “It took two days to do it. And even though I knew we were shooting a TV show, it’s still something that’s very surreal when you look in the rear view mirror and you got about 20 cop cars behind you.”
In November FX released a promotional clip for the series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZDSLvhT_Tg) showing a portion of the chase with Gooding Jr. seen holding a gun up near his head and heard saying, "I'm not a bad person." With no official account of Simpson and Cowlings’ dialogue on record -- and the film’s cast adhering to producer’s request to avoid contacting anyone in preparation (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/fxs-people-v-oj-simpson-852239) of their roles -- Warner said it took creativity to film the scene.
“We still don’t know what was said during the chase. So I guess it was really just all on supposition,” Warner said. “And what we find, at least in terms of the recreation of the scene, was that there really wasn’t a game plan. They were really just trying to abide time for O.J. to get his head together.”
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The 10-episode series, which stars Cuba Gooding Jr. (as O.J. Simpson), David Schwimmer (as Robert Kardashian), Sarah Paulson (as Marcia Clark), John Travolta (as Robert Shapiro) and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (as Simpson’s friend and former teammate Al Cowlings), will focus on Simpson’s 1995 criminal trial (http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Timeline-OJ-Simpson-Murder-Civil-Trials-262363251.html).
The June 1994 chase, during which Cowlings drove Simpson's white Ford Bronco away from Los Angeles police, was a can't-look-away moment in America. It lasted roughly two hours on LA's 405 freeway (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-20-years-ago-oj-simpson-chase-20140617-story.html) and resulted in Simpson surrendering himself to authorities at his suburban mansion.
For Malcolm-Jamal Warner, recreating the moment was a surreal experience.
“We shut down the 77 freeway for a weekend and basically recreated the scene,” he said during an interview with The Huffington Post. “It took two days to do it. And even though I knew we were shooting a TV show, it’s still something that’s very surreal when you look in the rear view mirror and you got about 20 cop cars behind you.”
In November FX released a promotional clip for the series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZDSLvhT_Tg) showing a portion of the chase with Gooding Jr. seen holding a gun up near his head and heard saying, "I'm not a bad person." With no official account of Simpson and Cowlings’ dialogue on record -- and the film’s cast adhering to producer’s request to avoid contacting anyone in preparation (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/fxs-people-v-oj-simpson-852239) of their roles -- Warner said it took creativity to film the scene.
“We still don’t know what was said during the chase. So I guess it was really just all on supposition,” Warner said. “And what we find, at least in terms of the recreation of the scene, was that there really wasn’t a game plan. They were really just trying to abide time for O.J. to get his head together.”
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