Why Dennis Quaid Chooses Faith-Based Projects: ‘Uplifting’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actor Dennis Quaid revealed his heart for uplifting movies and faith-based content on a recent episode of Allie Beth Stuckey’s “Relatable” podcast.
“I like doing uplifting stories that uplift the human spirit,” Quaid said. “Recently I’ve even gotten into what they call faith movies, but I think they’re really just uplifting stories that I think we need.”
Quaid hopes that the movies he works on can help combat some of the darkness in the world, especially because Hollywood tends to focus on dark stories.
“There’s so much depressing stuff out there that’s going on in the world,” the actor added. He instead wants to focus on the light. “I’m attracted to true stories because if they were fiction, no one would believe them sometimes.”
“BLUE MIRACLE I thought was a really great story, THE ROOKIE is a fantastic story, you know. And these are aspirational movies and faith movies too,” he added.
Movies like these uplift viewers and combat the emptiness of many Hollywood productions. Quaid believes the brokenness found in Hollywood is just a reflection of the brokenness of our world—it’s just that celebrities’ brokenness is publicized. The allure of fame and fortune also leads to more depravity.
“Hollywood is about, I think, for a lot of people about seeking fame and fortune and for me it was also, more importantly, it was about the craft of acting and something I love to do,” Quaid said. “The ability to be able to [act] was a gift from God.”
Through making movies, he puts a “mirror up to life” to highlight the good—or the bad—in the world. While early in his career he would take whatever role he could get, Quaid now chooses to bring goodness to the screen.
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Quaid noted how his character comes to discover humility and is used by God as a result.
“At the beginning of the film, he’s really kind of a jaded character,” Quaid told Movieguide®. “He’s ego driven, puts burdens on all the wrong things, he thinks he’s out there winning trophies for his son who is back in Dallas, but it’s really for himself, and he gets these orphans foisted upon him, who are going to be out on the streets and lose their homes. And I think he winds up really learning humility, which is really when God’s miracles happened. And it’s like a person who’s looking for redemption and he doesn’t even know it.”
“The movie has a ‘bad-news-bears’ aspect to it, but it comes out as very charming. And then the story, it’s true. I still can’t believe that this story is true,” Quaid added.
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