“We talked many times on the phone and texted. It took them a few times, I think, before they felt safe with me. I would like to think they feel safe with me now.”
” and saw the late televangelist’s 1985 interview on “The PTL Club” with Steve Pieters, a gay minister who was diagnosed with HIV.
Chastain admits she never knew about this side of Bakker. “I grew up where the only thing I really knew about Tammy Faye was like what comedy sketches and impersonations told me, covers of magazines and tabloids. I really thought, Oh, she must be a terrible person because that’s what I was being fed,” she says.
Tammy struggled with addiction and remarried before she died in 2007 at the age of 65 after an 11-year battle with cancer. The film marks Chastain’s big screen singing debut. “She loved being alive and taking up space and singing loudly and wearing makeup that everyone could see,” the actor says, adding, “Everything about her was so large.”
Chastain approached the Bakkers’ children, Jim and Tammy Sue, long before filming began. “We talked many times on the phone and texted. It took them a few times, I think, before they felt safe with me,” Chastain says. “I would like to think they feel safe with me now.” Tammy Sue is heard singing her mother’s song “Don’t Give Up ” during the film’s end credits.
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