It’s a Monday, and Stephen Curry is locked in, as usual.

Less than 24 hours afterwinning the American Century Championship, the celebrity golf tournament near Lake Tahoe, with an eagle putt on the 18th green before a national television audience, the Golden State Warriors superstar is talking to The Chronicle by phone from New York, where he is doing publicity for the A24/Apple TV+ documentary “Stephen Curry: Underrated.”

Curry admitted he celebrated hisgolf titleon Sunday, July 16, with “a couple of glasses of bourbon,” then boarded a plane for the East Coast.

“No rest,” he said, “but we keep it going. We keep it going.”

咖喱无情的职业道德,他的了不起ability to balance the demands of global celebrity with family time, are a big part of “Underrated,” which begins streaming Friday, July 21. It also premieres that day at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, where it opened theSan Francisco International Film Festival4月。

Directed by Oakland filmmakerPeter Nicksand co-produced by Oakland native and“Black Panther”directorRyan Cooglerthrough their company Proximity Media, “Underrated” was filmed during the 2021-22 NBA season — which fortuitously ended with an NBA title, Curry’s fourth — and juxtaposes that with Curry’s days as an undersized guard at tiny Davidson College, near where he grew up in Charlotte, N.C.

The connective tissue in the documentary is that Curry, who left Davidson in 2009 after his junior year, spends much of the season studying to complete his remaining credits toward a sociology degree so he can graduate, fulfilling a promise he made to his mother, Sonya, and his college coach, Bob McKillop. (Spoiler alert: 13 years later, he got that diploma.)

Coogler告诉编年史April at the SFFilm screening that Curry’s story — that of a smaller athlete who overcame odds to become a champion — reminded him of“Creed,”the “Rocky” spin-off series he created with actorMichael B. Jordan.

“He’s not the biggest guy,” Coogler said of the point guard. “He had to find a way to be able to shoot over guys. It’s also well-documented that at Golden State early in his career, he had to overcome these obstacles” such as injuries, coaching changes and lots of losing, among others.

Curry admits that, as receptive as he was to the idea of the documentary, it was a discussion with his wife,Ayesha Curry, and the filmmakers about exactly how much of their private life they would allow the documentary to capture that ultimately convinced him to give the team the green light. Though he and Ayesha, a cookbook author andrestaurateur, are public figures, their young children (Riley, Ryan and Canon) are not, even if they have accompanied their parents to public events.

The children all appear in “Underrated” and, not surprisingly, are charming personalities.

“That was a big part of the whole process,” Curry explained. “We wanted (the film) to have authenticity, but to make sure our kids have a quote unquote, ‘normal’ childhood experience. There’s a fine line to it, and I think Pete and his team and Ryan did an amazing job of allowing us to almost feel like nobody was around. There was a space for us to just have our freedom as we wanted to be, our true selves.”

Nicks, who is best known for his so-called Oakland trilogy —“The Waiting Room”(2012) follows patients, doctors, and staff at Highland Hospital;“The Force”(2017) is about reform measures at the Oakland Police Department; and“Homeroom”(2021) follows the Oakland High School class of 2020 through its senior year — explained in a separate video interview that his strength as a filmmaker is shooting verite. He wanted to stay in the moment.

“It was important to us to get as much intimate access with him as possible with his family because we wanted to understand the importance,” Nicks said. “We had a sense that he was close to his family growing up, and that was a big part of who he was as a person.

“It was at times difficult. They’re raising a family and they’ve got to have their home. They’re always surrounded by cameras and attention and press. We wanted to go a little bit deeper than people typically go, so it was an ongoing conversation. But we were happy with the access that we got, and I think it sort of shows on the screen.”

“Stephen Curry: Underrated” is co-produced by Curry’s production company, Unanimous Media, which he co-founded with partner Erick Peyton, and reflects a long-standing interest in film and television. He fell in love with movies while in high school, if not before.

“Every week it seemed like I saw one of the new films coming out, especially when I was able to drive and go where I wanted to,” said Curry, who cited the 2002 film “The Count of Monte Cristo” as his favorite.

“It was also the heyday of comedy, some of which probably hasn’t aged well,” he added with a laugh. “ ‘Wedding Crashers’ would have been high-brow. Good stuff.”

Unanimous Media specializes in sports (the Oscar-nominated“The Queen of Basketball”) and family- and faith-based content (“Emanuel,”a documentary about the aftermath of the shootings at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015; and“Breakthrough,”an inspirational film starring Josh Lucas and Chrissy Metz based on the true story of a teenager who survived being submerged in icy waters). Among its many current projects is a fifth season of the ABC golf reality series“Holey Moley,”which is set to shoot later this summer (reality series are not affected by the SAG-AFTRA strike) and a series reboot of the 2000 film“Finding Forrester”for NBC.

Curry said the thread running through his work with Unanimous Media is highlighting underserved communities, an extension of his mission with hischarity work, especially theEat. Learn. Play. Foundationhe runs with Ayesha.

“There’s opportunities where I know and I can draw attention to and uplift people with the content that we put out,” Curry said. “Especially from a diversity and minority perspective, giving people and the next generation a vision of what’s possible out there. That’s something I’m very passionate about.”

Curry, 35, said he plans to play for the Warriors for“four or five more years,”but adds that he hopes Unanimous Media expands and lasts decades after that. He also hopes his own story, as told in “Underrated,” provides inspiration well beyond his time on the court.

“Sports is a microcosm of life,” he said. “There’s a sense of confidence-building and committing yourself to a passion that’s a universal concept, which I think comes through in terms of how not just how I explain my quote unquote ‘origin’ story, like the formative Davidson years that helped shape me, but who I am as a person.

“I hope ‘Underrated’ resonates with people who are overlooked, undervalued and looking for an opportunity to showcase who they really are in whatever facet of life.”

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