Excitement ran through fans’ and tennis enthusiasts’ nerves when the release of the ‘King Richard’ movie was announced but the Venus Williams family was unequivocally more pumped before the movie was set to drop.
The Richard Williams biopic which hit the big screens in 2021 gapped almost every cinematic piece at the time and with the assistance of Will Smith and his impeccable acting skills, also earned itself an Oscar last year in 2022.
Both the Williams sisters, Serena Williams and Venus Williams, played an important role in the movie owing to its script based on their father Richard’s manifestation and polishing of the iconic duo’s careers.
Expressing her thoughts on whether the movie’s story was authentic, Venus opened up about how her elder sister Isha Price pressured her into reading the movie’s script at a time when she was adamant about going through its details.
Staying on the topic, Williams gave a flashback to her fans on how things went down saying “This all started as a script and I remember my older sister, Isha, and she kept calling me and says I want you to read the script and I was like ‘I don’t want to read the script’ she kept begging me to and it was over months and I’m not sure why I was so resistant to it.”
“Finally I was on the airplane once and I was like ‘I’m going to read this script’ and I remember I started laughing and there were moments where I got teary and I was like I know exactly what happened because I was there when these things happened in my life and I’m getting emotional and that’s when I knew this could be an amazing project and I knew it was the real deal,” quoted Williams.
After the movie’s worldwide release, it earned heaps of money and earned a spot for itself in the blockbuster category, but a few have an opposing view to what the movie did to advance Richard Williams’ character.
Venus Williams’ half-sister slammed ‘King Richard’ for not portraying Richard Williams’ true nature
Richard Williams has been married a total of three times and in those relationships, he conceived Serena and Venus Williams with his wife Oracene Price. The Williams sisters’ half-sisters Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha Price were Oracene’s children from her first marriage.
On their father’s side, the Williams sisters have a total of seven siblings Sabrina, Richard III, Ronner, Reluss, and Reneeka with former wife, Betty Johnson, Dylan, and son Chavoita LeSane with his divorced wife, Lakeisha Juanita Graham.
The controversial tennis veteran walked out on Sabrina and her four siblings when she was merely eight years and claims that the movie ‘King Richard‘ did not portray his true self and that “he was only a king in his head.”
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Sabrina Williams further went on to add that her father Richard left her family and kept them a secret which she would be incorporating in her book, additionally, it also caused her several mental illnesses and an eating disorder.