How 'King Richard' brought a controversial sports figure to the screen. With his family's approval

Richard Williams' daughters were apprehensive when they got the offer. Yet another script had come in hoping to tell the story of Venus and Serena's meteoric rise to tennis fame — and the man with the plan at the heart of it all.

Would this script, written by Zach Baylin, authentically capture the Williams patriarch or further sensationalize the narrative that his larger-than-life personality had garnered in the press? His daughter Isha Price anticipated the latter. "I had been sent stuff before, [so] I didn't really take it seriously," she said by Zoom while babysitting Serena's daughter Olympia.

The studio sent over a watermarked copy of the script, which she promptly lost. After her assistant printed out a second copy, she "really dug in." "And after I read the whole thing, [my mom] was like, 'So what do you think?'"

Price told her that it was actually a very good script and had a lot of promise, "it's