The controversial player will reveal all in Juuso Syrjä’s film, which hopes to put Dennis Rodman to shame. Jere Karalahti, now blissfully retired, has long been referred to as “the only prominent Finnish ice hockey player ever arrested for drugs”. During a career that has taken him to the Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators and Hc Dinamo Minsk, his personal indiscretions generated just as many headlines as his successes, culminating in his arrest in 1996 – all the more scandalous given that his father was a police inspector. “Jere has been in the public eye all his life,” admits director Juuso Syrjä, previously behind Netflix’s Bordertown, of which he directed a whopping 21 episodes. “Mostly because with him, it’s wasn’t just about sports. There are so many A-class athletes who deliver, and yet people are more interested in the ‘bad boys’. And that’s just one of his faces.
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