Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
The biopic of Jesse Owens, Race, opened over the weekend.
Last week A Martinez interviewed Stephan James who portrays Owens, who broke Olympic records and defied the ideals of Adolph Hitler.
While James is a relative newcomer to big box office films, Jeremy Irons is a legend among actors.
Irons plays Avery Brundage, the head of what was essentially the US Olympic committee at the time who pushed for the games to be in Berlin in 1936.