Producers of the Oscar-winning 2009 film The Blind Aspect preserve that the onscreen depiction is neither a lie nor faux.
Who would have thought 2009’s The Blind Aspect can be tied to one of many strangest leisure tales of 2023? Earlier this month, former professional soccer participant Michel Oher launched a lawsuit that claims Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy exploited the story to revenue thousands and thousands of {dollars} with out slicing Oher himself in. Now, producers on the Oscar-winning film have chimed in, saying that it stays “genuine” regardless of what has and can come out through the authorized battle.
In an announcement shared with Leisure Weekly, Broderick Johnson and Andrew A. Kosove – who earned Oscar nominations for producing The Blind Aspect – stated, “The Blind Aspect is verifiably genuine and can by no means be a lie or faux, whatever the familial ups and downs which have occurred subsequent to the movie,” including that the acts of the Tuohy mother and father and the spirit of the teenage Oher stay on the forefront. “We noticed it in Tuohy’s great acts of kindness towards Michael Oher…Nonetheless, extra importantly, we noticed it within the extraordinary braveness that Michael Oher demonstrated in accepting the Tuohys’ generosity not as a handout, or as his saviors, however as a means by way of which he may enhance his personal life.”
As for monetary positive aspects by the involved events, The Blind Aspect producers – whose working relationship goes again to the Nineties – added, “The notion that the Tuohys have been paid thousands and thousands of {dollars} by Alcon to the detriment of Michael Oher is fake. In actual fact, [production company] Alcon has paid roughly $767,000 to the expertise company that represents the Tuohy household and Michael Oher (who, presumably, took fee earlier than passing it by way of). We anticipate that the Tuohy household and Michael Oher will obtain extra income as audiences proceed to get pleasure from this true story within the years to come back.” Yeah, inform that to SAG-AFTRA…
Along with its Greatest Image nomination, which it most certainly earned because of the Academy switching over to 10 nominees that 12 months, The Blind Aspect earned Sandra Bullock the Greatest Actress statue – however don’t anticipate her to return it anytime quickly.
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