- Danny DeVito completely talks to PEOPLE about govt producing an upcoming sports activities docuseries
- Game 7 from Prime Video covers the fun of 5 of essentially the most iconic sport sevens in sports activities historical past
- DeVito's kids, Jake and Lucy, additionally function producers on the collection, premiering Oct. 22
For sports activities followers, there aren't any two phrases extra thrilling than “game seven.” Just ask Danny DeVito.
DeVito, 79, serves as the manager producer on Prime Video's upcoming docuseries Game 7 — a little bit of a departure from the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star's standard physique of labor.
But for DeVito, Game 7 — the collection and the idea — is about extra than simply a sport. “I'm a sports enthusiast in kind of a weird way,” the actor tells PEOPLE. “Most of my friends just watch it all the time and go to games,” he says of friends like Penny Marshall, a Yankees loyalist; Jack Nicholson, a diehard Lakers fan and Spike Lee, a common at Madison Square Garden throughout the Knicks' season.
“Nicholson will watch basketball morning, noon and night,” says DeVito, “But I only do it when it's the playoffs, I need the rush.”
The Taxi star grew up in New Jersey's Asbury Park with a father who would take him to Ebbetts Field (the place the Brooklyn Dodgers performed till 1958) “anytime he could” and a mom who “for some reason, became a crazy Yankees fan,” says DeVito.
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“The most exciting thing in my household was when we'd move the television to the porch, and if there was a Yankee-Dodger game, forget about it,” he says, fittingly taking part in up the Italian inflection.
“My mother and father were beer drinkers and they smoked like chimneys, and we had no air conditioning so we'd open the two windows in the front and we'd have aunts and uncles and cousins, it was the loudest house on the block,” DeVito remembers fondly. “It was a lot of fun,”
The actor recalled these thrilling household gatherings to look at baseball when he was approached by former hockey star Mark Messier to take part in a collection in regards to the magic of the “Game 7” idea.
“LeBron [James] said it — the two most important words in sports are game seven,” DeVito says, “and we saw how there are so many wonderful moments that put you on the edge of your seat.”
“There's nothing like a game seven,” the daddy of three, whose son Jake and daughter Lucy additionally function producers on the collection, provides.
The thrill of a “game seven” is not reserved for athletes, although, in case you ask DeVito. “We all go through these game sevens in our lifetimes.”
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One of DeVito's private “game seven” moments was the night time earlier than he filmed his first episode of Taxi in 1978. “There was a plant in my dressing room and a note from Jim Brooks that said, ‘Dear Danny, as Louie De Palma would say, if you don't do good tonight, you'll be eating s— tomorrow.'”
“Maybe you're out there on the wing or you're about to ask for your girlfriend's hand in marriage and you've got to walk through that door and talk to her father — that's a game seven,” says DeVito.
The five-part docuseries premieres on Prime Video on Oct. 22. Each episode covers a completely different historic Game 7 from the views of each the profitable and shedding athletes and their followers.
In order of episode launch, the video games featured within the collection embody the 2003 ALCS sport between the Yankees and Red Sox, the Edmonton Oilers vs. Philadelphia Flyers 1987 Stanley Cup Finals, the 2006 NBA Western Conference semifinals between the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs, the Chicago Cubs vs. the Cleveland Indians within the 2016 MLB World Series and the New York Rangers vs. Vancouver Canucks within the 1994 championship sport.
