I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes. I remember I found this jacket I liked once and I was like "look, I found my coat! You wrestled just one year at Ashland High School? My junior year I wrestled 10 matches and lost six.
I transferred back to Palo Alto High School to start my senior year and wrestled at pounds. I didn't win a local tournament the whole year -- I couldn't put it together in competition -- but I went to the state qualifiers and started winning and I ended up winning the state championship. It was so miraculous -- I went from a pound junior with a losing record in Oregon to a pound senior who won the state championship in California. How did your story become a movie? I never competed again. I was 36 years old and I was done.
I was really happy I won UFC. I lost in the Olympics and I was pretty depressed for about eight years. I quit wrestling and I got into Brazilian jujitsu in I quit wrestling and became strictly a Brazilian jujitsu practitioner and ended up doing UFC.
To me, just stepping into the Octagon was a victory in itself. The fact that I won was just frosting on the cake. After I won I was so excited that I thought, you know, I've had this really extreme life and a lot of ups and downs. I should write it down so at least my kids know what I did with my life. So I wrote it all down. In two weeks I wrote 60 pages. I did this, I did this, I did this, I did this. Then I sent it around to five or six people and one of those people was one of my wrestlers.
Eventually he brought it to his brother, Mike Coleman, who got together with the producer of "Precious" and formed a company and tried to get my story made into a movie. They got it to Bennett Miller and Bennett loved it and said "this is the next movie I want to make. What do you think of it? I think it's the most epic movie of all time. I really do. I'm not just saying that to promote it. I think there's so many metaphors and undercurrents and themes and lessons -- it's like life, amplified.
We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. What was your involvement in the production? I was a consultant. I was only back there on the set for about a week. They really didn't need me at that point.
They already had their script written and the actors were hired. I stayed around for some minor tips and thoughts and stuff but it was really hard on me and since they didn't really need me I asked to go home. What was hard on you? Seeing your life acted out like that? You've seen the movie, right? You can probably guess what was hard on me.
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Add it to your IMDb page. Find out more at IMDbPro ». How Much Have You Seen? How much of Mark Schultz's work have you seen? Known For. Foxcatcher Thanks. Foxcatcher has clearly put him in a spin. When I saw the film at Cannes last year, that was the first time I had seen the final version. The audience gave it an eight-minute ovation. I was relieved because, while I was watching it, it was really uncomfortable.
The first article I read compared it to Behind the Candelabra. A brief, darkened scene then finds the pair on the floor, a huffing, puffing Du Pont writhing atop a motionless Schultz before levering himself off, grunting. It could be mere wrestling; it could be sex; it could be rape. Other people are thinking this! And I started reading other articles like that, and I started getting more and more angry. Despite the Twitter tantrums, Schultz ended up going to the Oscars, where the film was nominated for five awards.
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