Hollywood legend, actor and director, Robert Duvall, has passed away. He was 95 years old.
After making his movie “The Apostle” in 1997, he told Guideposts about his faith: “My work on the movie filled my soul. One Sunday in New York, I visited six churches, ending up at Harlem’s vast Abyssinian Baptist Church. There in a packed congregation before a huge choir, when we all began to sing ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus,’ I found myself connected to the Lord in a way I had never felt before, deep within me.”
“Yes, I thought, we’re all kin through Jesus. Not just what we read about him in the Bible, but who he is. That was the secret to powerful faith, the power I wanted to convey in my movie.”
“…Some of my Pentecostal friends tell me my urgings were the Holy Spirit’s doing. I’m inclined to agree with them. In an amazingly swift seven-week period we filmed The Apostle, all on location in Louisiana.”
“…I’m proud of the film. Many of the parts are played by real people and real preachers, not professional actors, because true faith is something that’s hard to duplicate.”
“I think some viewers might be shocked—pleasantly so, I hope—to hear Jesus’ name mentioned so often…”
