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What would you ask Tammy Faye if you could have lunch with her? Wow, well, first of all, I would want to go shopping with her. Because when you read her book she has all these hacks about rhinestones, like if you get bored with your rhinestones you just buy nail polish and you can paint the underneath and turn it into a ruby. All of these fashion things that she did were just so fun and crazy. What would I ask her? I feel like I know the answer, I probably would have asked her why she felt she needed to stay in the relationship as long as she did. I think the answer is because she was a first-hand witness of what her mother suffered when the father left the family and how her mother was ostracised by the community for going through a divorce. But I would be interested in hearing why she didn’t value herself enough to try to make it on her own until later. And I wish I could have been friends with her and help make her feel loved and worthy and not needing of approval from a group of people.
After waiting so long to make this movie, was it everything you hoped it would be? It was more than I anticipated it would be. I mean, the reality is the first time I had the make-up test I had a bit of a panic and also, at the time I was self-sabotaging it because I was so scared of playing the part. So I was looking for kind of the easy out, in some sense. Even when we were doing the pre-records, I was so scared. I had a meal with David Greenbaum [Searchlight Pictures], we’ve been friends for a long time, after the first test, and he really calmed me down by just saying, ‘Listen, you have to understand that you have been studying this part for so long that you can’t be afraid of the make-up. So if you’re going to feel like you’re working in opposition of it – we don’t need it!’ And then as soon as he said that I was like, ‘Well, we’re going to have it!’ [laughs] ‘Because I can do it.’ And that really helped me. In fact, I think it really helped me,
the perfectionism of what the artists were able to create, because literally I would look in the mirror and just be shocked with what they had done with me. And it made me rise again, like Andrew Garfield, rise to the occasion. I couldn’t let the make-up be the thing that walked into the room before I did. I had to meet it with as much energy that they had put into it.
You have so much going on right now with ‘Tammy Faye’, you were recently in ‘The Forgiven’, you have the tv series ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ and also ‘The 355’ - how is it juggling all that? I don’t think so much about what’s happening in my life. I just think, ‘What am I doing in the next ten minutes?’ And that’s how I kind of like move forward.
Which has been your most challenging role recently? The most challenging for me as an actor, definitely, was ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ in terms of the prep I did for it but also it was like juggling fire. I had to put one thing on top of the other. The most challenging for me emotionally was ‘Scenes from a Marriage’
How is it to be out and about promoting your projects after lockdown? Oh it’s wonderful. We’ve all been locked away in our houses for so long, missing our friends. And so to see colleagues that you’ve worked with, let alone friends, and to celebrate, is really special.
Finally, what do you hope audiences will get from ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’? I hope we’ve made something that will inspire an audience to look at maybe somebody who may think differently than them and understand that everyone is deserving of love and God’s grace and acceptance.
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