RICHARD Williams is the father of tennis superstar sisters Venus and Serena Williams. Richard is making headlines after a new movie titled, King Richard, on his life has been released by Warner Bros. Pictures film. The movie was released in theaters on November 19 but is also available to watch on HBO Max.
The movie is based on a true story and shows Will Smith portraying Richard while Demi Singleton portrays Serena, Saniyya Sidney portrays Venus. Throughout the course of his daughter’s careers, he is credited with coaching them to success.
TELLING HALF THE STORY’: “It’s a comedy, no?” Sabrina Williams scoffed when speaking to The Sun about the film King Richard. “How can you make a movie by telling half the story? “It suddenly starts with dad and his new wife Oracene and their children. It’s like nothing happened before. “I just need to see it now because I didn’t realize how hysterically funny it would be. One of the things I’m gonna have to do is not laugh out loud in the auditorium as I know the full story.”
ONLY A KING IN HIS HEAD’: Sabrina Williams – the half sister of Serena and Venus – has slammed the new Hollywood biopic ‘King Richard’ saying he was “only a king in his head”. “He thinks he’s the king of the world, but no one that’s ever been around him thinks he’s King Richard. It is an outrageous title, but to truth be told, it fits him.
“He’s not the king of the world. If you look at him psychologically, it’s something he’s never achieved apart from in his head – he’s lived only through two of his daughters forsaking all his other children. “Truth be told, those girls rose to the top while his other children had to suffer because of the choices my dad made, we were raised in poverty after he left. “He choose tennis for them, as he knew it could also make him a millionaire.”
WHAT HAVE VENUS AND SERENA SAID ABOUT THEIR MOTHER? On November 17, 2021, Serena sat down with Red Table Talk to talk about her family and revealed that they wouldn’t have survived if it wasn’t for Price. “She had to support seven people, as a family of seven,” Serena said, adding, “To have that faith and to have that back end support, we wouldn’t have survived without that.”
Venus then reiterated her sister’s comments on her website saying, “My father soaked up the spotlight as a larger-than-life character who created two tennis phenoms, but it was my mother who was the backbone and driving force behind both him, Serena, and I. “She provided the balance and stability, both emotionally and spiritually. She raised all of her daughters to be strong, confident unrelentingly successful women. Not just on the court, but in life as human beings. I’m forever grateful.”
WHO IS ORACENE PRICE? Born April 3, 1952 Price, 69, is known as an American tennis coach and is the mother of tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams. Prior to becoming a household name, the Michigan native attended Buena Vista High School and went on to obtain a degree at Western Michigan University.
While many people believe that Serena and Venus’ father, Richard Williams, is responsible for training the girls, their mother also played an important role and had taught herself tennis before reportedly helping her daughters with the technical aspects of the game.
SERENA SAYS ‘THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY TO TELL’ FAMILY’S STORY: In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Serena Williams said it made sense to tell the Williams’ story through the point of view of her father Richard because “it was his idea” to turn his daughters into tennis champions.
“It was his idea. He knew how to do it. What tells this African American man to put us in a sport where there’s not many African American players? There was no other way to tell that story” – Serena Williams on why #KingRichard is told from her dad’s POV pic.twitter.com/qd4I2K16py — Dionne Grant (@DionneGrant) November 21, 2021
WILLIAMS’ DAUGHTER SAYS WILL SMITH ‘SHOULD HAVE WANTED TO TELL THE FULL STORY’
The Sun has reached out to Smith’s production team and Richard Williams’ son, who has power of attorney, for comment. Sabrina, who will soon become a fully qualified chaplain and lives in Las Vegas, said the actor should be “ashamed of himself,” but she doesn’t feel any anger towards her dad, only pity. “Will Smith is not dumb,” Sabrina said.
“They say Will Smith is probably getting an Academy Award for this, I held him in a deep regard, but, as a black American, he should have wanted to tell the full story.”
‘I KNOW THERE’S MORE SIBLINGS,’ SAYS OLDEST WILLIAMS DAUGHTER
Serena and Venus Williams’ dad Richard was a serial cheat with up to 20 kids, his eldest daughter has told The Sun.The tennis stars’ father – the focus of new biopic King Richard – has been accused of a string of affairs and has been dubbed “just a sperm donor” by Sabrina.
“I know there’s more siblings, I was told between fifteen and nineteen all over the place, from LA to Louisiana,” she told The Sun. “My mom always argued with my dad about his affairs, he was a serial cheat. I remember that was always the main thing they’d talk about.
“He is a selfish man, lives only for himself, he just uses his kids to get what he needs. He’s not a dad, he was just a sperm donor. He had five kids, and left them to my mom to grow up in poverty, and never once helped.”
