Dennis Rodman’s tenacity as a defender and rebounder was key to the Bulls’ second three-peat. His eccentric behavior is one of the main reasons why people wanted to see “The Last Dance.”
As it turned out, Rodman was almost not part of the documentary as he initially told The Last Dance‘s director that he was only going to give him 10 minutes.
Rodman ended up sitting for three hours after showing up two hours late.
“He’s like, ‘Ten hours (for this documentary), huh?’ I was like, ‘Yeah.’ He’s like, ‘Alright, I’ll give you 10 minutes,’” Hehir recalled on ESPN’s Jalen & Jacoby. “Every page of questions I have (for him to answer) is an hour. I have 11 pages for this guy and he’s saying 10 minutes.
“So he sits down. I’m just kind of shooting the s–t with him, and he says, ‘I need a tuna sub from Subway and some chamomile tea.’ It was like (Dave) Chappelle sending the guys for a sugar cookie in Queens. Unless you pass this test, you cannot do this interview. So we got him the tuna sub, we got him the chamomile tea, and he sat down for three hours. But that is a difficult guy to interview.”
“Interviewing Dennis Rodman is like trying to interview a feral cat,” Hehir said. “He’s not looking in the same place, he’s got those big shades on. Every other sentence was going back to Kim Jong-un and how he was gonna be in the history books.”
Never change, Rodman.
