. “This is the film I said no to. If I had thought this was going to be my golden ticket,” she told PA in 2010. “It just was such odd circumstances and things came together in a way that I just didn’t see coming. … That’s what makes it so overwhelming and unexpected.”after it became a box office success. “Michael liked the book, but when the movie came out he was just starting his rookie year, and I think he was hazed [about the movie] constantly in the trenches,” Lewis told Bloomberg in 2010.
The former Baltimore Ravens right tackle later shared his own two cents on the project. “I’m not trying to prove anything,” he told ESPN in 2015. “People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don’t really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That’s why I get downgraded so much — because of something off the field.”
He added: “This stuff, calling me a bust, people saying if I can play or not — that has nothing to do with football. It’s something else off the field. That’sOher played in the NFL for eight seasons. He was chosen by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 2009 draft and stayed on the team until 2013. During his stint with the Ravens, they won Super Bowl XLVII in February 2013. Oher then played for the Tennessee Titans in 2014 and the Carolina Panthers from 2015 to 2016.
The Blind Side was released in 2009.