Greg Smith Transformed ‘Unbroken’ Star Jack O’Connell Into Olympic-Level Louis Zamperini

Greg Smith had his work cut out for him when Angelina Jolie called. He was in Sydney, Australia--his adopted hometown--when he was asked to come and train Jack O'Connell in the ways of a 1930s Olympic athlete. Smith knew his stuff--a highly experienced athletics coach, the U.S.-born Smith had played for the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1990s and trained two athletes to compete in the London Olympics of 2012. But nothing could have prepared him for the challenge he was to…



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