Actor Lucas Black on '42' and faith in Hollywood
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Lucas Black is a film and television actor who has starred in multiple movies including 42 (Jackie Robinson film), Sling Blade, Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift among many others. He is most known for his role as Christopher LaSalle on CBS' NCIS: New Orleans where he appeared from 2014-2019.
Born and raised in Alabama, Lucas enjoys the outdoors and has a YouTube channel called "Real Life Lucas Black" where he shares videos of him hunting and fishing. He will make a cameo in the upcoming film Fast and Furious 9 (F9) releasing June 25, 2021.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Lucas about living his faith out in Hollywood, how he became an actor, his love for sports and preparing to play former Brooklyn Dodgers baseball star Pee Wee Reece in the 2013 film 42.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode on Sports Spectrum with Lucas Black, the actor. |
| 0:03.5 | He played Pee Wee Reese in the movie 42. |
| 0:06.3 | He played Christopher LaSalle on CBS's NCIS, New Orleans, over 100 episodes on that show. |
| 0:13.8 | He's also in Fast and Furious, the new Fast and Furious movie as Sean Boswell. |
| 0:18.9 | Man, this is a great conversation of Faith in Hollywood with Lucas Black, and it's coming |
| 0:23.9 | up right now on Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:33.4 | This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:40.3 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:42.7 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to the show. I am Jason, and this is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:48.5 | So glad that you're tuning into our show today. |
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