“I’D HAVE WON AN OSCAR FOR WOKE JESUS”

I have never met an atheist in a foxhole. The guys that come back and are lifted up as heroes, the real ones can't accept it because a lot of their brothers died, and they could have been them. And I remember I did a movie years ago, and there was a SEAL that was in the Mekong Delta, and we watched this movie called Men with Green Faces, and it was the Guys that were in the Vietnam War, Richard Marcinko, and this was the Ridley Scott movie, G.I. Jane. And while we were making it, Harry Humphreys, he was the SEAL that organized the whole regiment of guys that we had that were going through this training. And he had a St. Michael the Archangel on his neck. When we were alone at some point, I asked him about it. And he said to me something like, well, it was better than my lucky rabbit's foot. And I started looking up Michael the Archangel. Because a lot of these guys had that angel, that warrior angel, that basically told the devil off and sent him to hell. And he's in Revelations 12. And so, you know, I know the. Left media will hate it. And that's why I liked it. I'm starting But I wanted, I wanted it to, to, I still, you know, like the passion I want to make it historically real. And, um, they seem to go nuts when you do that. to And, uh, speak so we, we did. And it's authentic. And I, and I love the story that this guy isn't, he's not woke. He's a real dude. now. He's a man. Yeah. He's a real. You got to earn that right to be a man, you know, and in my business, we have a lot of 50 and 60 year old guys that never became men. And so I had a great man in Jimmy Stewart when I first met him years ago, and he was such a role model to me. I actually had a great encounter with him and met him and his wife and I was a waiter And, um... You know, I knew so many things about him, and his wife kind of elbowed him, like, look what you've done, how you've influenced this young man's life. And when we were doing The Thin Red Line, on the day he died, which was, I think, July 7th, 1997, we were making the film, and I got to say goodbye to him. And George Clooney took my wife and I out to dinner, and he... And I said, you know, Jimmy Stewart died today. And he said, well, my aunt used to take me over to his house, Rosemary Clooney, who was in the movie White Christmas. And I would sit there and we would look at, you know, watching the TV on the TV as an Academy Award. I've been in the house and I know exactly what he's talking about. But he said to me, Stewart was kind of disappointed in his life that he should have done more movies, done more. I mean, this guy. He flew 26 missions over Nazi Germany. He was a brigadier general and won Academy Award and immediately went to war and was the head of a whole Air Force wing at the time, the U.S. Army Air Corps. But a guy I really looked up to and kind of passed it forward to me. And when he died, you know, maybe Jesus met him and said, hey, pray for this guy because he's going to be playing me in a film here soon. Um, that's, uh, yeah, that's incredible, Jim. That makes me wonder, you know, when you talk about George Clooney, um, do you still speak to any of these people? Will they speak to you now that you have stood up, uh, to the, the narratives, you know, the prevailing narratives in Hollywood and rejected the propaganda and, um, stood for God and stood for the truth? No. I think the moment you stop living for the approval of others is the moment you become free to live for the purpose that God gave you. God gave me a gift as an actor. My responsibility isn't to use it to win the approval of others, but to honor the one who gave it to me. Talent is the gift. Humility is recognizing its source. Purpose is how we honor it. And The difference between me and the rest of the great actors I've worked with is that their talent came from them. My talent came from God. It's a gift. I'm a bearer of that. And I just have some people are going to be offended. But that is what usually happens when you follow, truly follow Jesus. Not much has changed in this world. Jesus is more controversial now than he has ever been. And so, I know that personally, after going through what I went through on The Passion of the Christ, but I make no apologies on that movie, never did. I got lambasted for doing that film. If we'd have done a woke version of Jesus, I probably would have won Academy Award, but I didn't. And I just want to remind people that some incredible things happened to you in the filming of that. You were struck by lightning, for one. Yeah, I was struck by lightning. I had... Um, two major heart surgeries, including open heart. Um, I was brought into the room in, um, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, intensive care, and I died right there. I was dead. Um, it was like, it's so easy when you die. I didn't realize it was going to be that hard, that easy. I thought it would be really hard, but it was instant. My heart, uh, cracked like an egg and the yolk came out and I was dead and I felt the The most peace, the most love. around me, and it was funny. God has a sense of humor. I could feel it, where he was like, just hang on a second. You'll be back. I just want you to experience it. There was a reason for it. St. Paul talks about it, to live is Christ, to die is gain. That's probably my favorite line in the whole Bible, and I know we're all going to die someday. It's not my focus. My focus is that I want the world to know that I loved him with all my heart. I loved him. I truly did. And the work I do, and I ask God for one thing, to lead the most people, most people back to him in the world that has ever been. I'm not asking to be a saint. I don't want to mention it. I'll take the ditch next to his house in heaven, but that's where I want to be as close as I can. So that's the guy he picked. I'm that guy, and now I'm doing Ghost Soldier, and we'll see what happens. But there'll be a referendum on me here in the next week and a half to see if the public comes out. If they don't, well, move on.