“When this scandal hit, I was in sixth grade in Norman, Oklahoma,” says Abe Sylvia, the 46-year-old screenwriter of The Eyes of Tammy Faye. In the movie, the avarice and sins are mostly relegated to Jim Bakker, played with deliberate, unassuming blandness by Andrew Garfield. (Tammy Faye, who later remarried, passed away in 2007.) It also shows, quite pointedly, how Tammy Faye attempted to bring change to a religious system that wasn’t inclusive. The movie includes a key moment in which Tammy Faye interviews, via closed-circuit TV in 1985, Steve Pieters, a gay man afflicted with HIV/AIDS.

Source: MetroXpress September 20, 2021 14:15 UTC