Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain co-star in director Michael Showalter’s upcoming movie. In the trailer released for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” the latest directorial endeavor by filmmaker Michael Showalter, Chastain is remarkably transformed.
Chastain co-stars with Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Fredric Lehne, Louis Cancelmi, Sam Jaeger, Gabriel Olds, Mark Wystrach, and Vincent D’Onofrio in the Searchlight Pictures-backed drama. With the scheduled release in September, “Tammy Faye” is likely to appear at a fall festival such as TIFF and potentially factor further into the upcoming awards season, similar to how Searchlight recently won Best Picture for “Nomadland.”
The authorised plot summary for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” is an exciting way of looking at the unprecedented rise, fall, and salvation of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. She came from modest origins to construct the largest global religious public broadcaster and amusement park in the 1970s and ’80s with her spouse, Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield). They were admired for their religion of love, acknowledgement, and affluence. Tammy Faye was notable for her unforgettable eyelashes, strange singing voice, and willingness to start embracing people from all backgrounds of life. However, this wasn’t long before financial mismanagement, conniving rivals, and controversy brought their carefully crafted empire crashing down.
After seeing Bakker interview Religious gay diplomat and AIDS patient Steve Pieters, Jessica Chastain said she knew she decided to star in the film. Chastain admired Tammy Faye because, when most people were embarrassed to utter the word “AIDS,” they had a female televangelist who was also a leader through her own freedom. During the entire interview, she was not only the pastor’s wife, the singer. Chastain thought the whole thing was incredible, beautiful, and affectionate.
Chastain spent four hours every day in the makeup truck, morphing into Bakker mainly with the assistance of her long-standing makeup virtuosos, Linda Dowds and Stephanie Ingram, as well as Justin Raleigh.
“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” will be released in theatres on September the 17th this year by Searchlight Pictures.