“My whole life is this family, Jerry, and it does not work without him!”
It’s the line that makes us—and Jake Gyllenhaal—cry, delivered flawlessly by King in her role as Marcee Tidwell after seeing her football player husband, Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), get seriously injured during a game.
In a video interview with BuzzFeed, King shared how this role was “special” and how she thought of their on-screen romance as “the love you wanted to achieve.” As she put it, “That relationship was the relationship you wished you can have.”
