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Sony Film Chief Tom Rothman Compares Great Actors to Star Athletes: ‘The Audience Knows Talent When They See It’
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterPlenty of Hollywood studio executives are sports fanatics — pre-pandemic, the floor seats at any given Lakers game often looked like the executive check-in at the Academy Awards.But Tom Rothman, chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, has taken his love of the game to a much more philosophical level during a recent and rare sit-down interview. The executive appeared on “Suiting Up With Paul Rabil,” the audio series from eight-time lacrosse world champion Paul Rabil.Rothman himself wielded a lacrosse stick in his day, in his early education and at Brown University.