He's a Hollywood star and thought that Jeanie Buss was going to kick him out of the Crypto Arena

The HBO series "Winning Time," about the rise of the Lakers dynasty following the acquisition of the franchise by Dr. Jerry Buss, shows how the showtime era started and the domination of the NBA by the purple and gold.

One of the main actors in the show is John C. Reilly, who portrays Dr. Jerry Buss, Jeanie Buss' father. Reilly has done an outstanding job of playing Dr. Buss and Jeanie expressed how the actor has done her father justice on the show. In a recent appearance on the Winning Time Podcast, Jeanie shared a hilarious story of when she met Reilly at a Lakers game and he thought she was going to kick him out of the arena due to her past comments about the show:

“And John C. Reilly is absolutely breathtaking as my dad,” Jeanie said. “And and whether he he could feel that he could channel Jerry Buss. You know, the writers gave him great material. You know I mean the performance and how he wasn’t talked about for an award or several awards. I hope that this season, just from what I’ve seen so far, he should definitely be considered. He’s absolutely fabulous.

And I got a chance to meet him at a Laker game and I literally cross paths with him in the chairman’s room at the arena. And I thought for a second, I really should introduce myself to him because I knew he was playing my dad. And I said it’s by chance I’m here. I’ve got to take this moment. So I introduce myself to him. And the look on his face, he goes, ‘Are you throwing me out?’ And I go, ‘Why would I throw you out?’ I said, ‘I just I really want you to hear this story. I have to tell you the story that one of the things that my dad and I did, one of our passions was to go to the movies. And my dad being very busy when when we did get a day to go to the movies, he’d want to see two or three or four in one day. And so we had seen the movie Chicago and John C. Reilly was fantastic in that film."

Jeanie Buss believes that John C. Reilly has done a great job portraying his dad

“And after we watched the film, my dad said to me, it goes, I think I think he’s going to win an award. He was really he was really good. And when somebody that it can be so funny can play such a tragic character. I said, ‘I think he’d be really honored that you were playing him.'” Said Jeanie Buss.