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Dennis Quaid & Andy Erwin on I Can Only Imagine 2, Fatherhood, and Hope After the Applause · Crosswalk Talk: Celebrity Christian Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Life audio and the sequels can be tough in a
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  Speaker 1: movie of business.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, did you think this one would work? I was terrified.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know if it would work stepping into this,
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  Speaker 3: I just did want to screw up what the first
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  Speaker 3: one did, and I didn't want to go back to
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  Speaker 3: it if it was a gimmick, And so I was
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  Speaker 3: really skeptical. But my co director brenmaccorky brought the story
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  Speaker 3: to me with Bart and said, have you heard the
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  Speaker 3: second half of Bart's life? And it was this idea
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  Speaker 3: of like what happens if the happily ever after breaks?
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  Speaker 3: You know, what happens after you get everything you think
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  Speaker 3: you want and the crowd goes home and the plause
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  Speaker 3: stops and life gets hard.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that was a message of hope
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  Speaker 2: that really really resonated with me.
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  Speaker 3: To tell Tim Timmins, who's kind of this new character
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  Speaker 3: in the story that becomes a spiritual guide for Bart.
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  Speaker 3: And then the idea and my levint to Bela absolutely
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  Speaker 3: kills it at it. And then the idea of being
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  Speaker 3: able to go back and finish what Dennis and I
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  Speaker 3: got a chance to start, you know, eight years ago,
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  Speaker 3: to finish that story and fully complete it. And we
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  Speaker 3: just really want as we stepped into it, we wanted
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  Speaker 3: it to be a story that took those stories somewhere
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  Speaker 3: new and fresh, and it wasn't what you would expect
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  Speaker 3: in a typical sequel, and that it would really catch
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  Speaker 3: you off garden.
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  Speaker 2: As audiences have.
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  Speaker 3: Watched it, you know, test audiences and things like that,
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  Speaker 3: it's been awesome to see the response because it's not
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  Speaker 3: at all what they expect.
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  Speaker 2: Dennis, what what resonated with you about this film? Why
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  Speaker 2: did you want to be a part of it?
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  Speaker 1: Jose I want to be at every one of his movies.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's why it's a feeling that's very antual.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh so, But it's not really a sequel
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  Speaker 4: to be it's a continuation of this and that you know,
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  Speaker 4: I have a small part in it because it's I've
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  Speaker 4: been I'm a memory really, it's really what this comes
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  Speaker 4: down to, and in that Bart's memory of his father
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  Speaker 4: and his relationship with him.
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  Speaker 2: Thank god he had a good one in there, and
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  Speaker 2: it you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, it just it's this movie is very much about
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  Speaker 1: fathers and son and the.
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  Speaker 4: Chain of that relationship, you know, from generation to generation, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's really glad to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 2: This is at least your third living dentist with with Andy,
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna John.
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  Speaker 1: Had these movies changed you personally?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I would think that's playing these roles about
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  Speaker 2: redeption over and over and impact of person.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if they've changed me, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's a thirst out there for for these movies, and
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  Speaker 4: there was the thirst in meet to play parts like
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  Speaker 4: this because it really it's you know, these are what
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  Speaker 4: makes movies about are things that I've struggled with, think
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  Speaker 4: about happened in my life. You know, those things that
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  Speaker 4: don't get talked about or you know that the real
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  Speaker 4: questions life. That's what Andy is so good about, authentic
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  Speaker 4: in his storytelling like that without beating it over the head.
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  Speaker 4: He speaks to that that inner voice in all of us.
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  Speaker 3: Then that ask the big questions Andy, This is a
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  Speaker 3: movie that has about ten positive themes.
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  Speaker 2: In my mind, what are the big ones that you
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  Speaker 2: want to resonate with with audiences? I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: the real big one is gratitude. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Gratitude is like you know, I think the first movie
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  Speaker 3: was about Bart. There's a father son story of a
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  Speaker 3: son coming to terms with his father and it resulted
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  Speaker 3: in hope. This movie is you know, we kind of
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  Speaker 3: break that happily ever after. And this movie is about
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  Speaker 3: Bart as a father having to come to terms with
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  Speaker 3: his own son, realizing that, you know, he feels not prepared,
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  Speaker 3: that his dad never taught him how to do this job.
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  Speaker 3: And what it results in in this story is gratitude.
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  Speaker 3: And I think gratitude is is hope with teeth to it.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's hope that's fought for and lived in it.
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  Speaker 3: It's something that you struggle to find. And the catalyst
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  Speaker 3: to that story and this one is this character Tim
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  Speaker 3: Timmins that Milevin Tamelia plays amazingly, and Tim has an
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  Speaker 3: amazing story that a lot of people don't know that
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  Speaker 3: they'll find out as they watch the movie. But he
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  Speaker 3: wakes up every day grateful for another day and mark's
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  Speaker 3: an X on his wrist with a sharpie, like he's
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  Speaker 3: marking off a calendar for a day that he wasn't promised.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just that idea of that idea of gratitude.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's an important one. And then that idea
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  Speaker 3: of just completing, like Dennis said, that chain of fatherhood,
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  Speaker 3: of healing the relationship with your father so that you
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  Speaker 3: can give it to your son or to your kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the gratitude is the shortest road to happiness, I said, Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
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