One of Jesse Owens‘ daughters described watching a screening of “Race,” a film about the sprinter who triumphed at the Berlin 1936 Olympics, as “painful,” among other emotions.
“You do a screening, and you find yourselves exhausted because it’s so emotionally draining,” Marlene Owens Rankin said, according to the Times of London. “It’s your family’s life out there. It’s very difficult. It conjures up so many memories, good ones, bad ones, and some very painful. It makes you view it from a spectator’s perspective and it will show the kind of pressures my father had for most of his life.