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LOS ANGELES, JUNE 4, 2024 - Last night, FX celebrated the premiere of CLIPPED with a star-studded red carpet event at Regal LA Live in downtown Los Angeles.
CLIPPED cast and producers on site included Jacki Weaver (Shelly Sterling), Ed O’Neill (Donald Sterling), Cleopatra Coleman (V. Stiviano), Kelly AuCoin (Andy Roeser), J. Alphonse Nicholson (Chris Paul), Sheldon Bailey (De’Andre Jordan), Darryl Wesley (Jamal Crawford), Jock McKissic (Glen “Big Baby” Davis), Jack Topalian (Mac Nehoray), Jason Butler-Harner (Glenn Bunting), Charlie McElveen(JJ Re****), Yvonna Pearson (“Deja”), Gina Welch (Showrunner / Executive Producer / Writer), Nina Jacobson (Executive Producer), Brad Simpson (Executive
Producer), Zanne Devine (Executive Producer), Kevin Bray (Executive Producer / Director), Ramona Shelburne (Executive Producer), Rembert
Browne (Producer / Writer), amongst others.
About:
FX’s Clipped takes you behind the scenes of a notorious NBA owner’s racist remarks, captured on a tape heard around the world. Based on the hit ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, this limited series charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.
Famed coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) arrives as coach of the LA Clippers in 2013. With a promising roster of big personalities, Rivers has the building blocks to win the franchise’s first championship. The team’s owner, Donald Sterling (Ed O’Neill), is a well-known problem: he’s cheap, he’s erratic, he’s a bully. But minimizing Sterling’s influence to win a title becomes a personal quest for Doc. Meanwhile, a courtside power struggle escalates between Sterling’s ambitious personal assistant V. Stiviano (Cleopatra Coleman) and his wife and business partner of 60 years, Shelly (Jacki Weaver). Clipped is an Obama-era story of racial reckoning delivered via meme, in which V. and the Sterlings discover who really has the power in the internet age, and which leaves Rivers and his players wondering if the expulsion of one bad apple brings about the transformative change the media wants to celebrate.
The limited series also stars J. Alphonse Nicholson as Chris Paul, Kelly AuCoin as Sterling’s right-hand Andy Roeser, Rich Sommers as the Clippers’ PR man Seth Burton, Corbin Bernsen as Pierce O’Donnell, Clifton Davis as NBA great Elgin Baylor and Harriet Sansom Harris as “Justine.”
Executive Producers are Gina Welch, who serves as creator and showrunner, Emmy®-winning producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, Zanne Devine, Ramona Shelburne and Kevin Bray, who directed three of the six episodes. This series is an FX Production.
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