Karen Kingsbury, Son Talk ‘Total Dependence’ on God While Filming SOMEONE LIKE YOU
By Movieguide® Contributor
Author Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler discussed their new movie, SOMEONE LIKE YOU, and how God’s fingerprints are all over it.
“You can’t talk about the movie without talking about the miracles that God did. I think that’s how I know that putting in all that investment was worth it because I think people could argue, ‘Well if you had made all that money, why would you make a movie? Why wouldn’t you give it all away?’” Tyler said. “[But the movie] was ministry, and it was miraculous.”
“I can’t talk about the film without saying what God did in the process of the movie, and so I hope that it also brings Him glory and continues to bring people to, you know, conversations about their faith or conversations about, you know, restoration in family or relationships and forgiveness,” he continued. “So, I think that it was an awesome opportunity to use our gifts and to create and make something that will outlive us.”
“Based on the popular novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, SOMEONE LIKE YOU is an achingly beautiful, redemptive love story,” the movie’s website reads.
SOMEONE LIKE YOU tells the story of Dawson, an architect who leaves his hometown to find a new life after his best friend dies. A portion of Movieguide®’s review reads:
Based on a novel by Karen Kingsbury, SOMEONE LIKE YOU is a heartwarming tale about love and reconciliation. Viewers will enjoy clean, uplifting entertainment with a faith-based perspective. The movie holds strongly to family values and the sanctity of life in the womb with prominent themes of forgiveness, grief and love. Characters pray and discuss faith on screen and directly recognize the life of human embryos. SOMEONE LIKE YOU has strong themes of faith and family. MOVIEGUIDE® advises a light caution for younger children due to mature themes of death, grief and in vitro births.
Throughout filming, Karen and Tyler realized how much faith is required to make a movie. Not knowing how the audience would respond and if they would connect with the story, they had to trust that God held the movie’s future in his hands.
“There was a total dependence on the Lord because it’s like, well, I’ve never made a movie. I’ve also never shot a movie where people are on jet skis in the middle of the lake or where we’re at the zoo,” Tyler said. “I’ve never thought about shooting a movie where… there’s an accident or something like that. There was just lots of hoops and hurdles, and every day was a different challenge to just say, ‘All right, Lord, let’s just get through today.’”
To focus themselves and the cast on the Lord, Karen and Tyler brought everyone together at the beginning of the day to either pray or partake in a short devotional. They feel like that further helped faith permeate the movie and set it apart for the Lord.
“I just trusted the Lord, and I knew that I felt like as we were going along the shoot, he just kept saying, ‘If you make time for me, I’ll give you all the time that you need.’ And we did have all the time that we needed,” Tyler said.
Being on this side of production, the pair is so glad that they trusted the Lord and decided to make this movie. They are encouraging anyone who feels the Lord calling on them to do something they might be nervous about to just trust in him and take a leap of faith.
“There’s no turning back, you know, whatever God’s calling you to. Take the leap and know that He will catch you,” Karen said. “It’s not faith if you know the outcome. There’s no faith required if you know where you’re going to end up, and so this idea that there’s no turning back despite the unknown ahead makes it really exciting, and there’s total dependence on the Lord there.”
Movieguide® previously reported:
Karen Kingsbury and her daughter Kelsey recently spoke about the power of miracles in our lives.
“God has really given us a lot of miracles,” Kelsey said during an episode of “The Karen Kingsbury Show” podcast.
She and her mother recalled how the song “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?” became a sign to their family that Kingsbury’s late father was with them. It was one of his favorites, and the family often noticed it playing at important moments in their lives.
“I encourage people to look for the miracles because truly, it’s tempting for us to think that life is about decisions and deadlines and dishes, and it’s not,” Kingsbury stressed. “It’s about so much more, and it’s about the delight of the Lord and how He loves us so much that He would actually bring an angel into [a] moment to change all eternity.”
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