Last September, the biopic
In the eyes of Tammy Faye
was to be released in theaters .
Excavated portrait of a famous American televangelist of the 1970s-1980s.
The film, signed Michael Showalter, will not have finally had the honors of a release on the big screen in France, pandemic obliges.
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However, even if the character of Tammy Faye remains unknown in France, her incredible journey gives rise to a captivating film.
“With her husband Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye created a financial empire which ended up collapsing in the early 1990s”
, admits the flamboyant Jessica Chastain, who has been carrying this project for ten years and who is also a producer.
A couple from nothing
It is finally Disney + who seizes this biopic telling the hardly believable odyssey of this couple starting from nothing, having succeeded in creating the largest evangelical television channel in the world.
How did Jessica Chastain decide to invest herself body and soul in this project?
“I was on a promotional tour for the movie
Zero Dark Thirty
,
remembers the actress…
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