Colin Ford - Actor on new movie "The Hill" and the importance of Jesus in his life
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Colin Ford is an actor who stars alongside Dennis Quaid in the new movie "The Hill," in theaters August 25. Ford plays former pro baseball pitcher Rickey H ill and tells the extraordinary story of overcoming a degenerative spinal disease to become a baseball phenomenon.
Ford has been an actor since he was a child and starred as the voice of "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" on Disney Channel as well as Marvel's Captain Marvel and "We Bought a Zoo" with Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Colin Ford about training to be a baseball player for his new movie, the importance of his faith in God, the scripture he most clings to, being star struck acting alongside Matt Damon and his favorite sports movie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano, excited, really excited for today's interview with Colin Ford. He's an actor. We don't get to talk to actors too often on Sports Spectrum. It's usually the coaches and the athletes, but today we get to talk to one of the stars of the new movie The Hill, which is in theaters on Friday, August 25th. Growing up impoverished in small town, |
| 0:23.8 | Texas, the Hill is about young Ricky Hill, a former baseball player who shows extraordinary |
| 0:30.2 | ability for hitting a baseball despite being burdened by leg braces from a degenerative spinal |
| 0:36.6 | disease. |
| 0:41.4 | His father, a stern pastor, is played by Dennis Quaid, |
| 0:45.0 | and Ricky is played by our guest today, Colin Ford. |
| 0:47.6 | Ricky becomes a baseball phenomenon, |
| 0:51.1 | actually gets scouted and becomes a professional baseball player despite the degenerative spinal disease, I'm excited because I got to see a |
| 0:56.5 | screening of this movie The Hill, and it's fantastic. And I recommend everyone take their kids out |
| 1:01.9 | and go see this movie when it releases on August 25th on Friday. And so Colin Ford's going to share |
| 1:07.3 | a little bit about his love for sports, a little bit about taking this role |
| 1:12.0 | and starring with Dennis Quaid, who's been in a lot of sports movies, by the way, and then just |
| 1:17.2 | what it's like to be a man of faith and what that faith means to him. This movie is very |
| 1:21.8 | centered around faith. And that's all I'll say, because I want you to go see it. Before we get |
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