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Frankel & Co. has tackled one of its more unusual and, ultimately, challenging assignments: helping to find three actors to play Michael Jordan as a child, teen and young adult in a made-for-TV movie for Fox Family Channel.
The agency organized an open casting call at Hoops The Gym on Chicago’s West Side, then helped keep things orderly when more than 1,000 hopefuls showed up with stars in their eyes–but often with no more likeness to M.J.
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