Robert Duvall reveals how Hollywood ‘The Apostle’ is repelled.

When Hollywood star Robert Duvall did The apostleIt has changed its life forever, Wissz.com can reveal – but it almost never saw the light of the day.

“I wanted to make this film for years,” said Duvall, who wrote the film himself and directed.

In an open conversation, he added how it was a war to do it, it was a “work of love” that began in 1962 when he prepared for a character from the rural south in an off-broadway piece.

For his research too The apostleHe traveled to Hughes, Arkansas, where he slipped into a local Pentecost church in a Pentecost church one Sunday.

When Duvall grew up in a family of the US Navy in World War II in a family of the US Navy, he added: “I knew about the inner life of the mind, but I had never seen the church in this way.

“People could hardly contain the joy of their faith. Their faces were alive with it. People were on their feet, sang praise and clap, screamed at God. The air cried out with the spirit.”

The actor said it made him think: “I knew that people in this church had a gift to share a story. Somehow I would tell this story one day.”

Finally he began to write the drama in which he wanted to “write for many years – a story of a preacher”.

He added that he wanted to show a “good” but “faulty” man on the screen how we are “all”.

Duvall said about his character: “At the age of 12, he becomes a prestigious minister with a rousing gift for charismatic sermon. But his family is torn apart by infidelity of the marital infidelity.”

Duvall also knew that he had to make the film himself.

“Hollywood usually shows preachers as Hucksters and hypocrites, and I was sick and tired of it,” he said. “I wanted to show the joy and vitality that I had seen with my own eyes and in my heart and in my life, the sheer, extraordinary excitement of faith.”

He continued: “The story seemed to flow from me. I wrote all over airports and hotels everywhere, on the set between the scenes.”

But when he brought his script to Hollywood producers, he was rejected with the same answer: “Bob, religion is not an issue that our audience wants to see.”

So that Tender mercy The Oscar winner drove the invoice for the film itself.

“I’m proud of the film,” said Duvall.

He now hopes that those who see his love work are “moved as I was when I happened in this small church in Hughes, Arkansas”.

Duvall said: “It was the greatest discovery I’ve ever done.”