The 'Eyes of Tammy Faye' star attended the event with Rev. Steve Pieters.
Jessica Chastain may have only portrayed Christian televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker on screen in last year's"The Eyes of Tammy Faye," but she brought an important figure from the late Bakker's life as her date to the 94th Annual Oscars Nominees Luncheon in Los Angeles on Monday.
"The Eyes of Tammy Faye" star Jessica Chastain and her guest, Rev. Steve Pieters, at the 94th Annual Oscars Nominees Luncheon in Los Angeles on Monday.Bakker’s groundbreaking interview with Pieters is depicted in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” which is based on the RuPaul-narrated 2000 documentary of the same name.
Chastain, who also was an executive producer of"The Eyes of Tammy Faye," said the interview"was the reason I had to make the film; it was the most important scene.” For his part, Pieters was grateful that Bakker, who died of cancer in 2007 at age 65, used her popular PTL program to shine a light on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, even if some of her questions about his sexuality were deemed too personal by critics.