Image from Jefferson Chacon of Josh Rivera as Aaron Hernandez looking frustrated in American Sports Story
The Big Picture ✕ Remove Ads From executive producer Ryan Murphy, the first installment of FX's American Sports Story is focused on the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez and based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. Hernandez grew up with aspirations for a football career, but a family life full of challenges and quickly achieved star status led to struggles resisting temptation.
✕ Remove Ads It’s not just that you're embodying Aaron Hernandez in this, there are a variety of actors playing a variety of NFL players. What was it like to see what your castmates were doing with their performances and feeding off of what they brought to it? RIVERA: Starting off with that, initially, was pretty helpful. I didn’t have access to the entire script when I was auditioning, so it was really helpful to have this very interesting snapshot of a period of time in his life where he needed help on a spiritual level, which is very specific.
RIVERA: We had a trainer come in who helped me work out, and I was working out all the time. That was pretty straightforward. You just lift weights and try to get really big. But then, because you’re building so much muscle, if you build muscle really fast, it’s very easy to lose dexterity. So, meanwhile, I was going out and doing ladder drills and focusing on foot work. I am not, in general, a very tactile gentleman. I’m not very dexterous. I’m quite clumsy. So, that was tough.
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