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>> the "pitch perfect" actress making a big departure from those roles that made her famous. >> he wouldn't love me if he knew how bad i am. >> the fact that the subject matter was so close to home was something even more potentially rewarding, but also scary. >> why this performance is deeply personal. >> you yourself admitted that you were a survivor of abuse. what was important for you to portray through alice? just between us, you know what's better than mopping? anything! at the end of a long day, it's the last thing i want to do. well, i switched to swiffer wetjet, and it's awesome. it's an all-in-one, so it's ready to go when i am. the cleaning solution actually breaks down dirt and grime. and the pad absorbs it deep inside, so it prevents streaks and haze better than my old mop. plus, it's safe to use on all my floors, even wood. swiffer wetjet? so worth it. best. decision. ever. get $10 off for a limited time.

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♪ good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm phil lipof. the countdown to the super bowl is on, and tonight we take a close look at football city, usa, also known as rock hill, south carolina. the friday night lights shine brightly there. the town says it produces more nfl players per capita than anywhere else in america. but what happens when the dream dies? here's abc's michael strahan. >> the friday night lights are bright in football city, usa -- >> it's nothing better than friday night lights. the best feeling. >> reporter: friday night high school football games are an american tradition. but only one town calls itself football city, usa. rock hill, south carolina.

with a population of about 75,000 people, it's said it's turned out more nfl players per capita than any other city in the u.s. tonight's high school stars could become tomorrow's next pro athletes. >> and that ball of muscle that we call caleb simms is unstoppable. >> i make a great play, i can't even describe it. >> it's so hard to bring him down because he's so solid. >> when i'm making that play, i don't even know what's going on, i'm just letting my body do what it do, letting god lead me in the right direction. >> barksdale, he's loose! barksdale gets past, he's going to score! >> i've been playing since i was little. i've always wanted to go somewhere like college or to the league. it's always been a big goal of mine.

>> reporter: from just a handful of high schools here have come over two dozen nfl players. eight from rock hill high, seven from northwestern, seven from south point. the odds of going pro are incredibly low. about 7% of high school football players go on to play in college. and then only 1.5% college players make it to the nfl.bu t rock hill from trying. >> i can't live without football. football is me. that's my main personality. that's where everybody know me from, football. >> he was covered on that play by durant who they call "fat jay." at starting as a ninth grader play. m>>any ninth graders starting at football city, usa, but he is one of them. >> football is very important in my life. because family bond. it's stringent because of

football. we love the game. it brings us closer in every aspect of life, yeah. >> reporter: curran is only a freshman but he's starting varsity on one of the best teams in rock hill. coaching him from the sidelines is his dad, jay curran. he also played football growing up in rock hill. some of the guys jay played with in high school went on to the nfl. >> derek rolls drafted by the cowboys, third round. that's me, 18. sophomore. younger guy to all of them. ben watson's up here, number 83. drafted in the first round by my favorite team, the new england patriots. so that's cool. a lot of memories in this room, man. make some more of them.

one of those standout players.- top-ranked not only in south carolina but the entire country. >> i have six division-i offers to play college football. >> how old are you? >> 14 years of age. >> reporter: he started playing football at 4 years old. >> i want to be in the nfl, that's plan "a." plan "b" is not to mess up plan "b." nah, plan "b" is to finish college. >> jay, when did you know he was good? >> by the time he was 6, his first eight-touchdown season. by the time he was 9, touchdowns. >> in one season? >> in three games he had five touchdowns. one game he had five touchdowns in the first quarter. we always prepared for him to

get this much attention. i did. >> people here have a motto. nfl or bust. >> it's kind of the truth. nfl or bust. it's like, well, nfl or streets. you see all these guysngoi it't seems like reality. because it's happening so much. but in reality, it's not. it's like a fool's gold, a little bit. >> reporter: gibril was one of those phenom players everyone said would make to it the nfl, but he didn't. how did that feel to come back here after not hitting the ultimate dream of making the nfl? >> oh, shoot. it were hard. i mean, it was depressing. i felt shame. you know what i mean? i felt like a failure. and i didn't know what was really next. so i kind of went to a dark area. >> reporter: he eventually turned pain into purpose. he's now a youth football coach, trying to make sure that young athletes know how to play the

game and have the resilience to be okay when it ends. >> best believe we go to step in that gym, counter life going to be changed too, right? this camp about love, all right? >> what you do today is going to affect you tomorrow. >> reporter: he brings in mental health advocates and former players to help kids think beyond the game. >> who want to go to the nfl? okay. all right. this next speaker, he's from my hometown. he got a crazy testimony. so i'm going to introduce ron buyers. my community, football city usa, had me feeling like i had to make it to the league to have worth and have value. when the jersey was ripped away from me, i felt like nothing. nothing.

i felt this big. because as a kid i was parented in the community, love me based on my performance. repeat after me. say, my identity -- >> my identity -- >> is greater -- >> is greater -- >> than my ability. >> than my ability. >> people realize football is 90% mental, 10% physical. they don't understand how important the mental health piece is to the football piece. your mind is the most important thing you can have. so i want to tell these kids, listen, it's all in your head. >> reporter: for some, the big dream pays off in big contracts and a successful career. but what glitters isn't always gold. for one of rock hill's most promising sons, that dream may have given rise to a disturbing disease in a day that would change this town forever. >> tonight, there was another awful shooting, this one in south carolina. a doctor, his wife, two of their young grandchildren among the five killed in rock hill, south

carolina. tonight authorities believe it was a former nfl player who killed them before killing himself. >> our thanks to michael for that. as you saw in the end, that was a reference to former nfl player philip adams, one of rock hill's most promising sons who tragically killed six people before taking his own life. for a deep dive how his case changed some in his hometown, check out "impact by nightline." this episode is streaming now on hulu, new episodes drop every thursday. up next, anna kendrick, from "twilight" to "pitch perfect." why she says her latest role is deeply personal. oh, no! bye, bye cough. later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! hmmm, ok. not coughing at yoga? antiquing not coughing? not coughing at the movies?! hashtag still not coughing?! aaah. oww!

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anna kendrick became a household name perfecting comedic roles especially in the "pitch perfect" movies. but she takes a dark and dramatic turn in her latest film "alice, darling" which she says was scary and hits close to home. here's abc's mona kosar abdi. >> reporter: actress anna kendrick known for upbeat performances on the silver screen. >> i know that i'm known for kind of musicals and a certain kind of character. that's usually what i get hired to do. and i felt like it was kind of an exercise in rebuilding my self-trust. >> reporter: now taking on a decidedly more nuanced role. >> i'm so sorry i'm late. >> i'm going to do a different thing that i'm not usually hired to do and trust that that will work, and also even if it doesn't, i'll be okay. >> just came in. just came in.

>> reporter: in her latest movie "alice, darling," kendrick embodies a young woman searching for escape from her boyfriend's emotional abuse. >> what am i going to do without you? >> he isolates her, and he convinces her that her friends are bad for her. what boundaries did you have to create with yourself to create safety playing a character that herself doesn't feel safe? >> i felt really fortunate to be surrounded by people who came to this film because they related very deeply to the experience of being in and around psychological abuse. and i felt very safe and very held by them. >> i lied to him, he has every right to be angry. >> why? about what? >> about being here. >> there's my girl. >> the movie is a departure from the roles that made her famous like her first break as jessica, bella's friend in "twilight." >> who's he? >> that's edward. >> he's totally gorgeous,

obviously. but apparently nobody here's good enough for him. >> hello. >> and her rise to international fame as acapella star becca in "pitch perfect." ♪ i know you're gonna miss me when i'm gone ♪ >> you play more lighthearted roles, i would say. >> yeah. >> why was important for you to play alice at this time in your career? >> i'd been kind of looking for something a little more restrained and small. i did want to challenge myself. and even though i tried to work hard to be a certain kind of actor, and i'm very proud of the films that i've made, i wanted to kind of see what would happen if i put all that down and put down all the armor. it was, yeah, personally, very rewarding to do that. >> i notice there's actually limited dialogue in this movie, particularly between alice and simon. >> yeah. >> why is it important to show that vulnerability, to pay attention to her body language? >> it stays with alice's experience.

i think that sometimes if we're in a situation like, that we tend to get lost in cataloging. well, they said this, they did this, was that wrong, wasn't that wrong? and the thing that's more important is, what's happening to me? how do i feel? listening to that can be so hard. because i think, you know, culturally we're conditioned to not listen to ourselves. and i thought it was just such a beautiful and brave choice to just stay with this woman and watch her. it's almost daring the audience to say, like, tell me she's not being abused. >> i'm trying to work out why you would choose to hurt me so deliberately. >> i -- no, i -- i mean, i just wanted to hang out with my friends. >> right. you want to be here with them at my expense. >> reporter: alice's story is deeply personal for kendrick. you yourself admitted that you are a survivor of abuse. what was important for you to portray through alice? >> there was a little bit of

push-pull, how much do we show of the partner, and what's the behavior? and i think there is a temptation to have a scene where he just shoves her into a wall, just once, so that the audience is clear, okay, this is a bad guy. this is an abusive relationship. and i think sometimes we don't have those black-and-white answers. and that uncertainty is so hard to deal with and live with. and i think it was important to me to have the movie live in that uncertain space. because that's the experience when you're going through it. >> i can't do another thing wrong. >> alice -- >> i can't do another thing wrong. >> alice, what does that even mean? >> i lied to him, he doesn't even know i'm here. >> why did you lie to him? >> because i'm bad. >> what? why do you think survivors tend to question their own experience? >> i mean, i can't speak to anybody's experience but my own,

but i think that i would get trapped in a loop of this very false sense that if i just went over everything one more time, i could figure out how to make everything okay and how to get safe. >> that justification is also why survivors of abuse of likely to go back to their situations, to go back to their abusers. simon says "i give it a week." what do you hope people in similar situations get out of this movie? >> the most i can hope for is that it's a drop in the bucket of questioning and beginning to get curious about what might be happening to them or a friend. >> reporter: the parallels between "alice, darling" and her own experience bringing a deeper sense of purpose to her performance. >> the fact that the subject matter was so close to home was something even more potentially rewarding, but also scary. but sometimes scary things are very rewarding.

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♪ finally tonight, linsey davis goes one on one with former british prime minister boris johnson. >> hello. >> prime minister, linsey, how are you? >> very honored to be invited on

your show. >> of course. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you so much for your time. >> reporter: former british prime minister boris johnson on u.s. soil, here to urge republican lawmakers and the u.s. as a whole to stay the course with aid to ukraine. >> just back from ukraine. what brought you here to d.c.? >> i'm here really to make it clear to american lawmakers, to the people of america as far as i'm able, how deeply grateful i think we in the uk, everybody in europe, is to the united states for what you've done. i mean, look at it. this is a war that could so easily have gone the other way. putin could have crushed this country. and what happened? the united states stepped in, gave the assistance, gave the training, gave the intelligence to help the ukrainians to defend themselves. that was magnificent thing to do. absolutely magnificent. the only thing i want to say is the united states i hope will stick with it.

>> a snippet of the bbc documentary recently released, you say putin said to you on the phone, "boris, i don't want to hurt you, but with a missile it would only take a minute." how did you respond? >> he was trying to creep me out in a playful way. he was talking about the dangers of a missile exchange. i feel the crucial thing with all this is not to get sucked into that argument. >> do you think he's unhinged? what's his mindset? >> do you know, i think the less we talk about him, the better. >> how much more do we need to do? it sounds like americans have already spent about $50 billion in aid, already pledged another $50 billion for this year. we're talking about $100 billion. under the political landscape, i can understand your perspective. but for the average american saying, look, i'm struggling with inflation -- >> i know, where's that inflation come from? what caused it? that's been driven by economic instability, by oil price spikes caused directly by putin's

aggression. push putin back and you fix a lot of potential economic problems in the future. >> well, thank you. >> our thanks to linsey. that's "nightline." you can watch all of our episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here same time tomorrow. thanks for staying up with us. good night, america.