Sep 14, 2021
The biopic about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is based on
the documentary of the same name. Writer Abe Sylvia talks about
what drew him to the project: "I grew up in Oklahoma in the 80s,
and that's right in the middle of the Bible Belt, and while I
wasn't raised religiously, it was all around me, and when that
scandal first hit, it was everywhere. I wasn't familiar with [Tammy
Faye] before that but it certainly made a huge splash in the
neighborhood."
Abe also dives into the process of writing and researching a
biopic. "I think there's a little bit of osmosis that happens from
watching so many hours of footage… the important part of the
research was to get it into my own DNA and to separate that from
'How do I include all of these facts?' I think that was the
ultimate value of the research."
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