From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

You know, it was a painful thing for her initially because we were telling a story that she wasn't necessarily proud of,

you know, a period of her life that she wasn't proud of, and that was very hard for her.

So she hadn't watched the match in 25 years.

When directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie

Ferris began work on a movie about the famous 1973 Battle of the Sexes tennis match,

they knew they'd need the blessing of Billy Jean King. But it wasn't such an easy ask. The movie they

wanted to make wasn't just about tennis. It would also explore King's extramarital affair

with her hairdresser. Ferris and Dayton, the directors of Little Miss Sunshine and Ruby Sparks,

tell us about their intimidating first meeting with the famous athlete and activist,

and they explain how a delay in making their movie, while Emma Stone went off to film La La Land, might have been a good

thing. But first on the news banter, Megan Kelly tries to sell a kinder, gentler version of

herself on the Today Show and gets an unkind and ungentle reception. Stay tuned. It's the

business from KCRW.

I am joined by my sidekick in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So let's start out with Megan Kelly.

You know, NBC paid a lot of money to bring Megan Kelly into the fold, and she launched her evening show.

She had Putin, and then she had Alex Jones, and we're in such polarized times. It seemed like no matter who she interviews, it would be a problem. And that is also proving to be the case now that her morning segment has launched on NBC's Today Show. She came out of the box and it seems like critics just lunged.

Yeah, not kind and it seems justified because what's going on here is NBC is trying to

take somebody who's very good at doing a thing, which is doing hard-hitting interviews on

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