Los Angeles Lakers/Tune Squad star LeBron James delivered a heartwarming (and NSFW) thank you message to his teammates on the set “Space Jam: A New Legacy.”
In a video from Sept. 2019 (when production wrapped) that surfaced on Monday, LeBron shares his appreciation with the cast and crew for all the assists they delivered over the course of the challenging shoot in a speech that would make Dom Toretto proud.
“When I signed up for the project, I was like, ‘It's Space Jam, it's a movie I grew up watching,” LeBron said. “I was like, ‘Absolutely, I gotta do it. There's no way I can turn down Space Jam. Then I showed up on set on June 17 and I grabbed my first script…and in the far right corner, that f*cking thing said, ‘Day 1' of 58 days. And I was like, ‘Bron, what the f*ck are you doing?'
“And along this way, it was times when I was like, ‘Man, this is rough…I don't know if I'm gonna get through it.' And along the way, I started to pick up momentum, and I started to pick up family, too,” James continued. “No matter how long you're together…when you're together 12, 13, 14 hours a day, five days a week, sometimes six, you become family…I'm talking all of us. I'm very appreciative to you guys.”
Dom Toretto is watching this with a huge smile on his face https://t.co/amSiFW3Re2
— Michael Corvo (@michaelcorvoNBA) July 26, 2021
LeBron shouted out Malcolm D. Lee, who replaced Terance Nance as director midway through production. James added that starring in a Space Jam movie felt like “extra credit” after overcoming the odds throughout his life.
“There's no way you're supposed to f*cking make it out,” LeBron said of his journey from Akron to the set of a Warner Bros. major motion picture.
Nearly two years after LeBron's remarks, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” hit theaters and HBO Max on July 16. It won the box office with an impressive $31 million during its opening weekend, though its second-weekend returns fell off by 69%.
Before the world premiere, the Lakers forward opened up about his reservations about taking the role, considering his respect for Michael Jordan. He called the premiere an “absolute surreal” night after admiring the movie as a kid.
Like its predecessor, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” — a purposefully cheesy and wacky kids movie — has been unpopular with critics, but holds an 80% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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