Ernie Hudson has joined the cast of Bobby Farrelly's Special Olympics film 'Champions'.
Ernie Hudson is the latest addition to Bobby Farrelly’s Champions, a movie about a Special Olympics team that features a cast of actors with intellectual disabilities. As Deadline reports, the movie is a Hollywood adaptation of the Goya Award-winning Spanish film Campeones, which follows an arrogant basketball coach who begins to reevaluate his life once he’s forced to lead a team with intellectual disabilities as community service.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Although there’s still little information about Champions, the Hollywood adaptation should follow the same story beats, with a grumpy coach learning to respect people with intellectual disabilities. And you know what? That’s totally fine! We all need feel-good stories from time to time, and if they help de-marginalize groups that still suffer from social exclusion, even better.
Hudson is a Hollywood legend with almost five decades of success behind his back. The actor is dearly remembered as one of the original Ghostbusters and recently showed up for the franchise's latest sequel, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Hudson also boats fan-favorite roles in Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, and helped to turn films such as Congo and Miss Congeniality into classics.
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