Juancho Hernangomez

Complex caught up with Hernangomez about his first acting role in 'Hustle,' working with Adam Sandler, and what it meant to have basketball legends in the ...

I got his jersey, he signed it and his German jersey, he signed it. That’s the reason I get so mad at him during the movie when I feel like he lied to me because I really trust, I put my trust in him after I never had a dad. I watch it there and everybody wanted to be like Mike. It was huge. Even when we are playing in the streets with the street ballers on the A1 league or with the famous guys, like the professor and these guys, it was huge. And that’s the reason Bo did it because he loves basketball and because he loves his family and he knows he got to do it for his daughter.” But when we did the casting, I guess they see something in me and they see some kind of talent and we just developed the talent, but I was surprised at the beginning. He wanted to be the role model for his daughter and his father showed him the example to not be like him. JH: I think Bo didn’t trust him at the beginning because he didn’t have a father and his father left him alone when he was young and his father destroyed him and he want to raise his daughter to not be like his father, you know what I’m saying? And that’s the reason Bo did it because he loves basketball and because he loves his family and he knows he’s got to do it for his daughter. That’s the reason when you love someone, you are hard on them because you want the best. So I told the director and everybody, “I am going to do my best.” If I play badly at basketball, I know that’s my dream. I didn’t speak English. So I didn’t understand anything, just how to play basketball, the sport I love, the game I love.