The new movie, starring Jessica Chastain as the influential televangelist, tells an outlandish story. How much is true?
, directed by Michael Showalter and starring Jessica Chastain as Tammy and Andrew Garfield as Jim. Below, we’ve consulted the Bakkers’ own accounts plus decades of independent reporting to separate out the reality from the dramatic embellishment.When we first see Tammy Faye, she is having makeup applied even though she has, as she confirms, permanent lip liner, eyebrows, and eyeliner tattooed on. She claims she has never been photographed without her enormous fake eyelashes. All of this is true.
that when it was suggested that Tammy remove her makeup just for a minute as part of a makeover segment, she refused, declaring, with unexpected self-insight, “a clown never takes off his makeup.”, Messner confirmed that she had permanent makeup applied. “I tattooed around my eyes because I line them anyway,” she said. “I tattooed my eyebrows on because they were gone from pulling them out so much when I was a little girl. … The only thing I wish I wouldn’t have done was the lining of my lips.
The scene where Tammy Faye brings on HIV-positive gay pastor Steve Pieters is pulled straight from real life.Jim Gives Up Rock ’n’ Roll for God After Jim and Tammy meet at Bible college and fall in love, Jim tells her he wanted to be a radio DJ and loved Fats Domino and Little Richard. But then as a high school senior, he was in a car with a girl singing along to Fats on the radio when he ran over a little boy who was seriously injured. He promised God that if the boy recovered, he would give up rock ’n’ roll and devote his life to spreading the word.
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