Brad Gaines Returns To The Vaught With “It’s Time” Movie Crew

Sedale Threatt Jr., playing Chucky Mullins in “It’s Time,” and Brad Gaines at the Chucky Mullins bust.

After filming all over Mississippi, Brad Gaines and “It’s Time” cast and crew took a break Saturday to revel in the excitement of an Ole Miss Game Day in Oxford.

From taking a tour through the Grove to standing on the sidelines to watch the game, actor Sedale Threatt Jr., who is playing Chucky Mullins, said he had never seen anything quite like it.

Before the game began, Threatt said, “I went to an LSU game. That was my first introduction to SEC football, but this one right here… you can already feel the buzz outside. This is something special.”

Actor Pierson Fodé, who is playing Brad Gaines, had only been to one football game before Saturday.

He said, “There’s a lot of energy right here. You just feel people walking in… they’re excited; they are wearing their shirts, their jerseys, their favorite players… got Chucky Mullins players running around here. So, it feels great. The Grove was chaos and wonder; it was fantastic.”

Although new to the cast of “It’s Time,” this past Saturday was far from the first time Brad Gaines had set foot inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

In 2014, ESPN released the SEC Storied documentary “It’s Time,” which centered around the inspirational friendship between former Vanderbilt fullback, Gaines, and former Ole Miss defensive back, Chucky Mullins.

After the success of the documentary, Gaines returned to writer Jeff Sarokin and asked for his help in creating a movie.

“Jeff wrote the documentary, and over the course of time, I had probably had 20 or 30 movie opportunities and nothing had… it didn’t interest me at the time,” Gaines said. “But when the 30 for 30 came out, and it was so powerful; and the timing is perfect with what’s going on in our country socially and culturally, that it made sense that they film something now. It’s time.”

Sedale Threatt Jr., Pierson Fodé and Brad Gaines.

For more information, read: “It’s Time” Film Team Captivated By Ole Miss And Chucky Mullins

Randall Haley is the managing editor of HottyToddy.com. She can be reached at randall.haley@hottytoddy.com.