Comedian, actor and activist Cheech Marin says he doesn’t let rules govern his life. But for his new role in “The Long Game,” an underdog sports movie about five Mexican American teens who win the Texas high school golf championship in 1957 despite the racism they faced at the time, Marin found inspiration in the rules that guided his father.
But, Pollo tells Peña, you still have to 'play as it lies,' a golf expression that means you have to play the ball wherever it falls — and deal with current realities. “He has to deal with not only having had mustard gas, which really affects you, but how he fits into his own hometown,” Marin said, dissecting his character. “He’s now a stranger in his own hometown. So that kind of affects how he sees the world, how he hides from it and then, how he comes out every once in a while.
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