Remember The Titans
Here ’s a quick guide to the cast and characters ofRemember The Titans . Released 20 years ago , Remember The Titansis a semi - biographical sports dramatic play that – alongside the likes ofAny Given SundayandThe Longest Yard – has been hail as one of the greatest football game movies of all time . Directed byNow You See Mescreenwriter Boaz Yakin , the film is based on the true story of Herman Boone – a black football game passenger vehicle who guide the newly racially integrated team at Alexandria , Virginia ’s T.C. Williams High School to triumph during the 1971 state championship .
think The Titanswas a big box office hit in 2000 , gross a total of $ 136.7 million worldwide against a relatively modest budget of $ 30 million . winner like that does n’t encounter often in thesports moviegenre which incline to produce motion picture that do n’t always read well to oversea grocery . Remember The Titanshad more hold up for it than two hours ’ Charles Frederick Worth of touchdown and off tackles , however – football game is the focus but at its heart , the film is a tale of overcoming adversity and favoritism .
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It ’s got a dandy cast too . Alongside a big - name star with a dyad of Oscar gain under his bang , the moving-picture show also gave some now very intimate faces some of their earliest big - concealment citation . Read on for a who ’s who guide to theRemember The Titanscast and the characters they played .
Denzel Washington – Herman Boone
Black football game coach Herman Boone is hired to take aim the T.C. Williams High School football squad in the early seventies – a meter when racial tautness were riding high up in the USA . He ’s played by two - metre Oscar winnerDenzel Washington .
Will Patton – Bill Yoast
swampland Thing’sWill Patton play Bill Yoast , adjunct omnibus to the football team . While Boone and Yoast get off to a stony start , they come to prize each other as they stick to over their common love of the game .
Wood Harris – Julius Campbell
Defensive all - lead Julius Campbell initially bunt heads with his co - captain Gerry Bertier but the pair soon become fast friends . Julius is play by Wood Harris , who run on to receive critical eclat for his characterization of Avon Barskdale inThe Wire .
Ryan Hurst – Gerry Bertier
ab initio skeptical of the integrated team , linebacker and cobalt - master Gerry Bertier finally come to accept and apprize his teammates . He ’s dally by Ryan Hurst , roll in the hay for his role as Opie inSons Of Anarchyand Beta inThe walk Dead .
Donald Faison – Petey Jones
Scrubsstar Donald Faison plays run back - grow - line backer Petey Jones , the Titans ’ resident jokester .
Ryan Gosling – Alan Bosley
Ryan Gosling’sRemember The Titansrole was one of his first film credit . He played res publica music - loving cornerback Alan Bosley .
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