While the film centers on a fake football team and their fraudulent coach, BS High also touches on parenting, coming of age, and true crime, with elements that will remind some viewers of infamous figures like Caroline Calloway and Elizabeth Holmes. Free and Roe sat down with GQ to discuss the origins of this project, the experience of hearing the players’ sides of the story, and what it was like to conduct three days of interviews with a smiling swindler like Johnson. Roe: We learned about it at the same time that everybody else did. We are very online, and Travon was sending me the memes. We were laughing and enjoying it like everyone else. On that day, Travon tweeted that there was going to be a documentary about it and it would be called BS High. He was manifesting our future together. Three or four weeks later, we got a call from an old producer friend of mine who said he got in touch with the guy and he wanted to talk. We were like, “Really? The guy, the guy?” A few days after that we got on a phone call with him. We both knew we had to find out how this all happened.
Free: We thought it was funny like everyone else did. That also kind of played into our experience with making the movie. No one knew how sad it was behind the scenes until we started poking around and asking questions. At the time, it was just this crazy, fun-ish story, kind of like a bad version of The Bad News Bears. It turned out to be way worse. As someone who didn’t know just how deep this story goes, for the first ten minutes or so I found myself thinking, “This guy’s not so bad!” because he’s all smiles and jokes. But as the movie goes on you realize that he uses those things as a shield. How was the first hour or so of talking with Roy?
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