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Scottie Pippen # 33 and Michael Jordan # 23 of the Chicago Bulls sit on the bench during the game against the Vancouver Grizzlies at General Motors Place on January 27, 1998 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. NOTE TO THE USER: The user expressly acknowledges and accepts that, by downloading and / or using this photograph, the User accepts the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory copyright notice: Copyright 1998 NBAE (Photo by Andy Hayt / NBAE via Getty Images)
As accomplished as Jason Hehir is in his field, the only thing people will stop him on the street for years to come is “The Last Dance.”
The popular sports documentary, which chronicles the Chicago Bulls’ chase of their final NBA title in the 1997-98 season, has brought Hehir, who previously won Emmys for other sports-related shows, to world fame. With sports closed by the COVID-19 pandemic, “The Last Dance” has monopolized the attention and discussion of a sports-hungry audience and has spawned several derived stories told over and over.
But through 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, hundreds more interviews and snippets, and the entire process of completing the documentary, there is one thing Hehir, 43, will always tell people when he tells his story. . about doing “The Last Dance”.
“I think this is the first time I’ve met Michael,” said Hehir. “Because … since I was in the elevator to go up to this room in this hotel where I was, it was still that two-dimensional figure for me.” “It was still a logo on a shoe, it was still a poster on a wall, it was still a picture on a T-shirt,” Hehir told Philippine journalists recently at an online roundtable facilitated by Netflix.
Jordan’s status as a world sports icon remains indisputable that more than 20 years after its last title, a 10-part series recounting that the championship has become the most requested documentary and sports content at the moment. And being hampered by the pandemic coronavirus of digging for archived B-scrolls to make sure Bulls general manager Jerry Krause has pulled out his side, Hehir has tons of stories to tell to the people who will be speaking at it. future about the show.
But no story compares to the first day against Jordan. The meeting created a lasting impression on Hehir that guided his creative process: He wanted viewers to be able to see the “logo on a shoe” in 3D.
Hehir wanted to “humanize” Jordan, which he admitted was a challenge due to the “superhuman” status of the basketball legend.
That first meeting, however, allowed him to see beyond the myth.
“I got out of that elevator and sat down with it, and I started meeting Michael Jordan, the human being, and that’s where everything changed,” Hehir said.
“I think that moment, that first meeting, is the story that I’m going to [keep telling] people. “INQ
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