Josh Rivera on Becoming Aaron Hernandez in FX’s American Sports Story | 9
Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.
The Boston Globe | Wondery
4.8 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Patty Wen is joined by actor Josh Rivera, the star of the new FX series American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, adapted from the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. from Wondery and The Boston Globe. They talk about his preparation to play football star Aaron Hernandez, what it was like on set, and how he found humanity in such a complicated figure.
FX’s American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez premieres on Tuesday, September 17 on FX, next day on Hulu.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of Gladiator ad free. |
| 0:04.2 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. I'm Patty Wen from the Boston Globe and this is a special episode of |
| 0:18.8 | Gladiator Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm the former Boston Globe Spotlight Team Editor who oversaw our 2018 print and podcast series on the Aaron Hernandez story. In that podcast we followed the path of this |
| 0:35.5 | promising young superstar who went from the bright lights of the Super Bowl to a |
| 0:40.4 | convicted murderer in just a few years. |
| 0:43.0 | Hernandez died by suicide in prison in 2017, |
| 0:47.0 | following a career riddled with drug abuse, murder charges, |
| 0:50.0 | and personal struggles around his sexuality. |
| 0:54.0 | After his death, doctors diagnosed him with an extreme case of CTE, |
| 0:59.0 | a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated head trauma. |
| 1:03.0 | His death sparked a national conversation about safety regulations |
| 1:07.0 | and the culture of American football |
| 1:09.0 | and left us all wondering, |
| 1:11.0 | who was Aaron Hernandez really and how could this tragedy |
| 1:15.4 | have been prevented. Part of your story here is how could we have stopped this |
| 1:21.2 | how could we prevented this and my job's not just to |
| 1:24.4 | negotiate a huge contract or getting marketing dollars or whatnot it's to |
| 1:28.6 | help them within the best person it can be and they failed miserably in that regard. |
| 1:36.0 | FX's new TV series American sports story Aaron Hernandez gives another look at Hernandez |
| 1:41.6 | a story. adapted from our, the series gets up close and personal with Hernandez. |
| 1:46.8 | Tell me something, Erin. |
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