Steve Nash: Film auteur

March 21st, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Steve Nash has always been more than just a basketball player. Dude’s got some sweet handles with a soccer ball, can skateboard, thinks worldly and scholarly. Basically, he’s better than you in every aspect of your life. (Except for your scissor skills. I hear you cut an edge like no other.)

Well, let’s add aspiring filmmaker to his long list of talents. This all coming after he helped put together this spot for Nike last summer. From the Arizona Republic (via Fark):

It won’t be his last filmmaking foray. Nash started a film production company with his cousin, director Ezra Holland, and plans to make independent-type films.

“It was really fun for me to watch it grow organically,” Nash said. “To make a little film and see 400,000 people watch it is pretty fun.”

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“He was just this guy on the street pimpin’ so it was like, ‘Let’s get a shot of him,’ ” Nash said.

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“At first, the idea was to shoot on different mediums - camera phone, 8-millimeter, 16-millimeter (the eventual choice), security footage. My idea was the city was watching me. The genesis was a lot of people film me or take a picture of me in the city on cell phones. If it’s such an appetite to see me do normal things, it was an idea to do something people like.”

I think a collaboration with Wes Anderson should come here in due time. Because really, I think he’s the long lost fourth Wilson brother from Canada. There’s a resemblance there, no?