Matthew Carey For The Last Dance, the ESPN documentary series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, director Jason Hehir interviewed more than a hundred people, including two former presidents—Clinton and Obama—and a noted international diplomat.
That would be Dennis Rodman, former star rebounder and occasional envoy to North Korea.“It was harder to get Dennis Rodman in the chair than it was to get Obama in the chair, and it was harder to get him to pay attention than it was to get President Obama,” Hehir recalls. “Each [interviewee] brought different challenges in the booking process.” The biggest “get” of all, though, was Jordan himself, without whom there would be no docuseries.
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