Priscilla Shirer Interviews Chrissy Metz - Breakthrough Movie

coming up priscilla shirer sits down with this is us star chrissy Mets to discuss her new faith-based movie breakthrough yeah why do you think that is that this is an important time in the industry where faith matters and is working on screen well I think that well you know works of art should be created in every way I think that if you can create a work of art based on a true story or something that is inspirational that drives hope that reminds you of our purpose and our path you it's like you're getting the best of both worlds yeah and that there's so many people that are hungry for that they all know especially now it's very timely because we're going through a lot there's a lot of oil a lot of pain a lot of sorrow and we're all looking for something and so whether you know were an executive or you know we're from a small town and although you know in between we're all the same yeah we're all the same thing yeah all the same and it's all coming up next on the breakthrough interview I'm grateful for my son but I know that you've created him for a purpose thus far only known to you hello you have a great day he's been underwater 15 minutes no one can survive that long it took a mother strength police and her holy spirit is a massage to bring her son back I don't believe this son will survive good night I'm not giving up on him when no one else believes you need to be honest about John's chances you'll speak life over John believe the impossible we will remember her we witnessed today there's simply no explanation breakthrough rated PG Wednesday April 17th only in theaters Chrissie met you are lovely you really are you're an incredible person and we can feel that on the other side of the screen when we watch you it's not just your character that we love on this number-one hit show that you're a part of called this is us but there's something about the woman that's playing the part that just kind of endears us all to you so thanks for sitting down with me for a few minutes oh it's my pleasure cuz I kind of want to know the deal about Chrissie yeah I'm here to tell you you know okay you know that's where you were raised tell us where your life sort started sure so I'm currently one of five I was the youngest and I was born in Homestead Florida but my father was in the Navy okay so he was stationed in Japan so we lived there for the first nine years of my life and then moved back to Gainesville Florida and my parents divorced and my mom remarried and I hung out in Gainesville until I found my first manager at an open call that my sister was actually begging me to take her to and it's so funny because there was a woman sitting across from me while I was filling in on all the paperwork and she said so you know I tried of your high school and I was like no you did she's like I was in the drama department I go I was in the drama department side I know you and it was so interesting because I'm filling out the paperwork and then she said well I think you should audition I think you're here for a reason and I'm like I'm afraid of my own shadow there's no way I'm auditioning my sister was interested in doing like print modeling yeah and so my first manager ends up coming out and she's like so who's the Guardian and I said me and she's what are you doing here I said oh there's just taking mice sir she's like really you don't saying you know actor I was like mmm so they're just like pulling you in oh yeah they win and I thought I can't not get me I'm not formally trained like I sing in choir in school but yeah you know it's not the same thing and what and uh scared what is it what is it all mean and so lo and behold my sister nudges me and she's Chrissy you do sing sing burn and I'm like great I mean we've seen you be at them that was very fun yeah so anyway long story short she ended up signing me we end up coming out to LA and I was pursuing acting did both of you come out to LA no my sister ended up staying home going to school she's a mother of almost four now she Wow yeah I think so I know it's such an interesting turn of events yeah so I lived out in Los Angeles for some time I lived in a two-bedroom apartment with the six girls on air mattresses she was like yes I did three to each room yeah so it was like acting summer camp although this is what you wanted like it right what you were pursuing and you wanted it bad oh yeah and then my agent needed an assistant and so my manager said you're gonna go there and you're gonna find out all the details you're gonna submit people you're gonna learn things and I'm like oh wait wait what about me like what about my legs like my acting this is what I came here to do like I left everything I know I didn't I did not even go on the interstate prior to moving to Los Angeles okay like white-knuckling it to you know acting class Oh so um then for nine years I became and I of course started as an assistant junior agent and then a talent you know a real live desk job a real and were you discouraged by that just seemed like the biggest detour this has nothing to do with well connected to but it's not what you really wanted absolutely okay yeah I'm gonna tell you the connection that I have with you yeah so my brother calls me one day and he goes Priscilla I saw Chrissy Mets it somewhere I was singing my brother sings and and she said he said to me when we saw each other she just gave me the biggest hug and I said why is Chrissy Matt's hugging you and he said because when I moved out Los Angeles which he's been there maybe ten years now he said Chrissy was my first agent yeah and so you've known my brother all these years he said I knew her before I even knew she wanted to be an actor I know I know and when I made the correlation when he told me that I was like what it took me a second to understand I was like wait the Anthony of it what would what and this is what he told me about you he said the humility and kindness that she had when now I hear you were in a job that was not your preference you were in a season of life that to you seemed like a total derailment from the plan yeah the humility and kindness that you had then is the same sort of humility and kindness that you have now and I think that speaks to the kind of integrity and character that you have as a person well thank you because so many people if their life's not going the way they want it they lose humility and kindness yeah or if their stuff is going the way they want it like if everything's going great well humility goes out the door and they're not kind to other people so my question to you is in both spheres and in both seasons what do you think anchors you internally so that Chrissy is who Chrissy is no matter regardless of what circumstances are like I think well I think having a detour like being of service through being a talent agent really helped me to express my humility yeah and that it's not about my ego or my pride and it's not about what I want it's about what I'm here to do when I'm placed on this earth to do and I realized that maybe this is the season as you say of just being of service hmm and also learn that that's not wasted right yeah no no you've got to put in what you want to take out you know yeah and you can't keep anything you don't give away mmm so I was like oh I'm just gonna I'm just gonna help people do what I want to do until I can do it and then also in turn I learned so many lessons about patience about perseverance about determination humility yeah and really really understanding what it means to want something for the right reasons you know because it wasn't about fame and fortune and never has for me I just as a little girl growing up in a small town being different from all my friends I never had anyone to relate to okay and I wanted to either relate to somebody or have somebody relate to me I just I wanted to feel less alone and I feel I did you feel alone why did you feel isolated in your youth you know I just wasn't like any of my friends I also became the middle child my mom had two younger I have two her sisters and I just sort of felt like hey remember me like you know hold this place yeah for sure yeah and you know I was always the chubby girl out of all my friends and I just like in just inside I felt different yeah and now I know that's a great thing it's not it's not something I should have ever been ashamed of yeah but I just felt things very deeply yeah and I was always sort of in touch and you know when you're nine ten years old yeah Messerly I don't know anything yeah so I just always wanted and I think that's the reason why I wanted to be an actress was like let me love you and you can love me and it can be cyclical and it could be wonderful and this is how we should live our lives yeah so and you know I just wanted to help people feel less alone because I wanted to feel less alone okay I've got to ask you about body image because I think that's so important so you just mentioned you know as a young girl we can't even grapple with the fact that we're not included there's this homogeneous sameness that's celebrated that you get man you better look like us and talk like us and act like us if you're gonna fit in and there's gonna be some inclusivity there but it's like we have to mature enough take some years yeah to just be okay yeah you know I remember being in my youth I felt kind of displaced because a lot of times I would be the only girl of color amongst a group of mothers and you know my hair wasn't like their hair it was wild and unruly and Afro II and I felt like I needed to make it mine everybody else's or I was just a little taller than all the other girls are a little wider in the hips than all the other girls in the cheerleading squad and instead of celebrating that right I just sort of you kind of strength back into this little cocoon so talk about that trajectory in your life like what are your insecurities still now to this day that you're grappling with and what things have you learned to actually accept as you know this is a this is a gift this is something that God has given me a uniqueness that I can actually use yeah horrible I am and to help others to appreciate their uniqueness yeah I think a lot of that is my sensitivity I've always been very sensitive and some people are like oh you're overly sensitive like you cry about everything and I'm like yeah I do because I feel things in a very deep way and I almost other things that other folks would brush off oh sure you're still hanging off your shirt which doesn't serve me in in some aspects but in a lot of ways like my career it helps me to impress girls you can cry out it's funny because Devon said to me you want to save that and I was like oh there's plenty where that comes from exactly seriously and I'm like no I'm good I'm just kidding I'm just getting started okay don't worry and I think that that was always something that I felt different about and then of course being a chubby girl when all my you know yeah how my friends are shopping at Wet Seal and like you know these cute little stores and I'm like I'll wear your necklace like let's share accessory ooh yeah yeah and then I realized I mean of course as an adult that like I'm not defined by my body as we're defined by any number be that in your bank account or on the scale or where we come from any of those things I mean it took me a long time and I'm still yeah dealing and grappling with that because it's hard when we are a society that communes you know as a species like that's what we do and we want to feel a part of and when we feel different in any regard you're like am I is there something wrong with me yeah no no nothing at all like you were perfectly made yeah and like we all have our issues that we get to sort through and we get to learn through and that becomes you know our tragedies become our triumphs and so it's been a long journey for sure but I always say that like if I can't accept Who I am right now I can never get to the place I want to be you know because I'm constantly in this state of not enough Ness and so then you don't even make space for improvement should you want to improve or feel like you need to yeah so you know it's it's a process absolutely and you know the only reason why I would ever even think about losing weight or being in better shape is for health reasons yeah that's the only way I mean as far as being a different size or any of that I don't I don't care they don't really know I don't care no you're good yeah like if it was like okay if I knew that I was gonna be healthy for the rest of my life and none of this has an impact on anything else who cares yeah if I feel good if you have to feel good in your skin and I've met so many people who are size zero who are like oh I completely relate to your story and I'm like really how tell me this what are you even talking about what are you talking about because it's the thing is like the food yeah is not the issue it's you know it's a symptom yeah just if you under eat overeat if you you feel annoyed with anything yeah attention social media drugs alcohol whatever yeah we're all trying to fill a void and so my life I I had to overcome a lot and I used food to cope yeah and we all use something to cope and so it's all you know reprogramming and retraining your your mind because it's it's an obsession of the mind it has nothing to do with yeah you know you're feeling you're right we all have avoid then we're trying to fill yeah we see that so much really in the characters of this is us mm-hmm we see home them sort of grappling with their own vacuum rather dead loss of their dad or whatever that they're trying to deal with and we've got a movie to talk about but I've got we have to ask you about this is sp sure you went from desk job and then was this is us sort of I was about to say then all of a sudden no okay no no give us some steps about how jobs where you are not sure so for about nine years I was a talent agent and I had friends in the business who if an audition or two would pop up and I mean once a year yeah like hey can you go on your lunch break do you think you can go to this audition and I'm like no I have so much work to do and I'm loyal to a fault you know I sort of put oh my my desires on a back burner because I thought if I'm gonna be an agent if I was an actress I want my agent to be working for me full-time this happens no and so I really did that and then when my friend called about American Horror Story I was like okay I'm not gonna be on a Ryan Murphy show how many credits I have like three credits than my name but like forty years old it's not gonna happen she's like Chrissy if I get the audition just go will you go I'm like okay I'll go if it's meant to be fine and then sure enough I auditioned on tape and booked the job and so I was gone for about four months and I told my clients like hey this is what's going on I want to be completely honest gonna have somebody fill in for me and then once you have that taste of what you really want you're like how in the world did it kind of ding that dream back up in your heart and it's just your passions got going again I mean you're sitting on set with Jessica Lange Kathy Bates into the bed Sarah Paulson I mean can't go back to the yeah yeah you can ring the bell yeah I'm like oh okay so I in the wrapping you know it's just a five episode arc and I was like okay I'm gonna go back to the agent world and see ya what that's gonna mean and I thought okay at some point I'm gonna have to step out on faith and belief in myself and I was taking acting classes at night and on the weekends you know doing it whatever I could do when I wasn't working and then of course having just wrapped that I thought I can't do this I'm gonna make sure that my clients are taking care of that the agent comes on board or they if they want to go to another company and then I said okay I'm gonna go on unemployment so that's what stepping out in faith meant because that's what I was about to ask you there are a lot of people that are working a job but they feel like they're supposed to be the fashion industry you feel like they're supposed to start a makeup line or whatever and they just are like I feel like I'm supposed to start on the face but I need to be wise at the same time right how are you able to reconcile wisdom yeah with faith well I I said okay what does it can what can I afford what is it that is possible okay I moved in with a friend and she said okay pay me what you can and then I know you're good for it cuz I know where you live and I've known you for this long thank God for friends thank god for friends yeah and so I did that I went on an employment and I had you know enough stored away as as they say because I've been working since I was 14 and so I was like and I even felt guilty about that because I was like well what about getting any auditions like doesn't mean I'm not pursuing all the whatever you know all the way yeah and um so a year passed and I thought maybe I shouldn't have done this like maybe I should go back to agency I don't know and then I my friend called and she said okay Dan Fogelman has an untitled pilot do an audition for it I'm like I'm gonna audition for a pilot yeah okay you know because usually they go to people who have you know a list of credits and name recognition and all of those things I said let me read the script and I was like I I think I am this girl really I think I am this girl like she's sort of the glue that holds her brothers together she's living in her brother's shadow she's she has aspirations of you know of having a different life than what we now know um and all the guilt of the shame around her father's passing and just holding on to all those things and not ever stepping out in her power and then I know what it's like to be the second fiddle you know she was her brother's assistant I know about all those things yeah putting everybody else ahead of myself yeah so of course you know we auditioned oh I got the audition I went to that you did yeah we didn't know you got it oh yeah well I got the audition and that's the whole process that's a whole you know in time for that yeah but um yeah and then I thought okay and interesting and well I jumped through a lot of Hoops and people don't know this story I mean I've written a book and it's in that but this is me yes this is me the name of the book yes so goodness I have the audition I didn't think it was great although when I was heading to the audition it felt different like the birds but it was like it was in a musical yeah the birds were chirping like the sky was blue and someone's like this right yes and then I get to the room and I audition and I'm like womp womp oh my god no what did it sound like but how Mike it's not gonna happen from there she go back home I should just teach preschool yeah like I'm not gonna be an actress I'm terrible and I got a callback imagine that when I went to the callback and I remember nobody else for my role was in on the sign-in sheet I said I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing and I'm trying to overanalyze everything as I do I go in and I have about a 45 minute callback which is know yeah that's a long time and they're directing me like oh do you have a purse here can you get your purse can you act as if you're coming in the room into your apartment it's the scene where you know totally drops me off of after Kate drops Kate off after their first date and he's like gonna barge in the door chew the code no no no yeah we went on a date but you're not getting close to me like are you definitely coming in my house yeah so um it was a really cool experience and I thought okay well I'm gonna do the best I can and I did and you know they were very complimentary yeah but then it wasn't until two tests later yeah where I actually booked the job so some hoops did and then this is us and then and how in a nutshell your life changed as a result of not just a show yeah but the doggone number-one show for all of these seasons what is it meant to your life not just in a superficial sense because we're sure you're moving about as much change right that as well but I'm talking about how's it changed you still to come on the breakthrough interview why did you choose this project over the many others that I'm sure are also there for you to do what drew you to break through a movie that's coming out in Easter you know several things one first being that my mother went through a stroke prior to the Smith family story even coming to fruition as a film and almost verbatim did I say to my mother's doctor's what joy said to John's doctors really which was we're only gonna speak positive thoughts and we don't have a little the luxury of our negative thinking so if you're not here to help you're hurting get get to steppin yes this death thing get out and I don't think that that it's a coincidence and to honor the Smith family story and then to honor my mom mmm and that regard was like yeah I need to do this mm-hmm rise and shine breakfast is ready in ten minutes and don't make me come back up there this is our town it's a close-knit community a kind of place where everyone knows everyone I miss day hey how are you girls and we're always there for each other nice sermon pastor well you guys have on for the rest today well Dawn has a basketball game yeah I've seen this guy whoop it up around here this kid is so rich text your mom tomorrow and tell when and where to pick you up and don't do anything stupid we're training for the Olympics sir Simmi he's been underwater for more than 15 minutes it's gonna be a recovery but a rescue you've done everything medically possible there's nothing more what you do please God soon there's a spirit there's a muscle ((music playing)) a fourteen-year-old st.

Charles boy who spent 15 minutes trapped underwater is continuing to fight for his life I don't believe John will survive the night you don't know my son he is a fighter so I need you to be the best for John and you just let God do the rest you are my pride and joy I can't wait to see you because baskets and run up and down again the Smith family asks for one thing please pray for John in the water that day I was ready to give up but then I hear this voice is telling me go back there are nuts or gods talking to you but I don't believe in God I believe but maybe that only goes so far something like this I'm your pastor I'm supposed to walk alongside you for as long as it takes did you see the Facebook page it's going viral call me I hope is gonna be okay we're not going to get through this alone whatever you have for me sometime ((music playing)) you ((music playing)) and this is us and then and how has in a nutshell your life changed as a result of not just a show yeah but the doggone number one show for all of these seasons what is it meant to your life not just in a superficial sense because we're sure you're moving about as a change right that as well but I'm talking about how's it changed you you know my I always had a strong work ethic but I started showing up for myself more and that is something that I had not what do you mean by that so you know I lived in a lot of fear and always afraid of like well if I try acting and it doesn't work then what does that mean for me and what does that mean about me and then every day that I show up to set still I'm nervous yeah I'm uncertain about what its gonna look like and I've practiced and I've made a choice and what if the director doesn't like it and I take it personally and then I fall apart and I run away on my dreams because I'm so filled with fear mm-hmm so it's just changed me in the sense of it doesn't have to be perfect and you just have to show up and you have to walk through the fear that's so good that is so because let me ask you this do you feel like you're looking at the other actors on a set or the movie that you've done at any point you're feeling that internal fear and you're looking at all the other actors and you're feeling like they've got it all together it's only you that's feeling the fear yes it's wrestling with their own insecurities and our own fear and I've found that to be true like we see people on a platform and we just think yeah that they don't have the same wrestle we do and really the people that we admire it's not that they don't fear it's that they do it afraid right they just do it anyway it's exactly what you're saying right they just keep showing up well you know people like to you know I'm reminded often that fear is false evidence appearing real yes and so I have to think okay because this is your perception you don't really know and yeah we're all going through it we all want to be accepted and validated and yeah and appreciated for what it is that we love to do so how do you keeping for mushrooming media are you literally talking to yourself or you're literally reminding yourself yeah that my choices are valid choices I'm gonna do I'm gonna rest in the fact that God's given me a talent and a gift mm-hmm I can receive instruction from this director I can do it so okay you have to keep talking to yourself yeah and I have to remind myself that nothing is personal yeah that I'm a piece in a puzzle that's right what's my job about you hello yeah hello come on yes it's so known about me yeah a piece of the puzzle yeah how do I complete the puzzle how do I prepare how do I show up for myself and for my cast and for my crew who show up every day how can I best contribute to their cigarettes like you take your eyes off of yourself right how can I best it be helpful in my situation and if the director sees something different or better fitting for the scene I'm gonna trust that they know and their vision and I want to be malleable I want to be able to yeah to push and pull and the other things that have it I mean acting and so much of what we do is a collaborative art yeah so I just want to collaborate yeah so great you know I feel like that at this point in my my own life then ministry and whatever that they're you know if you put yourself if you let God put you in a position where you're in over your head and you know it and you just keep saying okay god I trust I trust then you build enough of a track record that the next time it happens even when you feel that same angst you can look back on your history with God and go you know what I mean just I need to trust him with this next thing he's proven to me that he's got nothing in time again yeah yeah so why now at the height I'm sure you've got many many more layers of heights to go there Chrissy but here you are at a pretty good spot in your career people know your name they seen your talent they're enjoying your art your craft your dreams what you've dreamt up since you were a young girl here it is materializing yeah and you get a call about a faith-based film mm-hmm a film where you're gonna have to pray to the Holy Spirit where Jesus name is mentioned and glorified where God does a mirakl where it's a it's a film that's sort of outside of the bubble of Hollywood and you say I'm gonna do this film yeah I'm sorry mr. mr.

Smith I don't believe John will survive the night if you have family and friends that you want to call to come to see John that would be the time to do it I have been told that you're the best dr. Garrett I'm an expert in my field ma'am oh you're the best world-renowned in fact what was I misinformed no you were not I know that you don't know my son but my John is a fighter and he doesn't give up so I need you to go and be the best for John nothing less and you just let God do the rest ((music playing)) okay why did you choose this project over the many others that I'm sure are also there for you to do what drew you to break through a movie that's coming out in Easter you know several things one first being that my mother went through a stroke prior to the Smiths family story even coming to fruition as a film and almost verbatim did I say to my mother's doctor's what joy said to Jones doctors really which was we're only gonna speak positive thoughts and we don't have a little the luxury for negative thinking so if you're not here to help you're hurting get get to steppin yes it's that thing get out and I don't think that that it's a coincidence and to honor the Smith family story and then to honor my mom and that regard was like yeah I need to do this mm-hmm and then I was attached to another project which was so I was grappling with okay what can I do both and if I did both I was gonna have not even one day off for an entire year and I thought mmm I don't know that's right cuz I got to recharge the batteries yeah cuz you still got that little series that you have to deal with you know that well series yeah and so and I want to be a hundred percent for whatever it is I'm committed to doing and so that other project fell through you did it fell through you know I was talking to my best friend and I we we obviously were chat we both we pray together we were very close and he's like you know what Christy it this is for this is on for a reason this is happening on purpose and I'm like yeah you're absolutely right isn't that something how disappointments can actually be appointments they can actually be the road opening up for what God actually has for us right those unanswered prayers yeah you know and then we think that we know best and that we know what I want and then we look back in hindsight and they're like God thank you that you yes no yes thank you for the no yes yes yes man if he would have given me everything I begged him for I'd be in so much trouble right now not being a good way girl yeah it'd be a mess for sure so you know that and also you can't help but be changed I mean I knew about the story through the news but you can't help me changed after you read the script anything this is not some fictional character this is a real life true story with my own I've seen him with my own eyes he's like alive listen and medical documentation that says he was dead right brought back to life right I played the role of the mother I know the Smith family in pastor Jason and I still feel that way like help huh and you know also as an actress you want to challenge yourself and you want to be a conduit I love this beautiful message and bringing it to thousands of people because it's gonna change people's lives how shocking it is not how thin it not just as it changed every single person's life you know that was that was directly affected yeah so do you believe God differently than you did before this film I mean has it made you pray different or has it made you expect differently on terms of your relationship with the Lord I think it did make me pray differently in the sense of I pray more often hmm and with more intention mmm and not about me but about what it is I'm supposed to do yeah so it kind of broadens our perspective of prayer doesn't even it becomes less about less about you know Lord just give me what I want right and more about Lord and like what is your will that's what wasn't your will for me yes what is your will yeah well I'm not mind be done always always always so the first scene that you film first day on set I found out last night from talking to you that it is the first thing you filmed is my favorite scene in the entire movie because I looked at that scene and I'm like Chrissy Metz is an actress beg girl right there it's fuse and now to know that you did that on the first day yeah when you're just kind of coming okay so it's the scene where you are praying for God to breathe life back into your son and you say Holy Spirit come and breathe life into my son yeah we've done everything medically possible there's nothing more with you do please God soon during Holy Spirit there's a muscle I want to ask you about your own relationship with the Holy Spirit what that looks like what how that's developed through the years just the nuances of your relationship with God's Spirit living in you and how you see that outworked you know the expression of God's Spirit in us yeah peace and patience and joy and all those things the fruit of God's Spirit from Galatians 5 is what it's called yeah so what just talked to us a little bit about that well faith has always been something very important to me my grandmother instilled that in us very early on and because I was searching and looking for something I'd be the teenager at church by herself because I was like really yeah I'm like how what what do I do like I need to understand it and also understand what it is that I'm intended to do and I always felt like there was a bigger picture and that something that still small voice was like just hang on just hang on just hang on and I went through a pretty tumultuous childhood might you know I'm mom remarried and I it's so interesting because my stepfather who I loved dearly and I'm so grateful he was more of a father to me than my biological father but it was an abusive relationship but I'm able to grieve that and then process that and then forgive him and so that is a really big deal because that forgiveness is a miracle forgiveness is a work of God's Spirit yes I believe we can't forget especially when someone's wrong just so severely absolutely that hardness of heart really can only be melted by the Holy Spirit right evidence of his work absolutely and that would those things would continue to happen like the more that I would let it go or forgive or understand love instead of being loved you know you know all of those those ways that it worked personally through through me and then how I'm honoured by doing that yeah and having the life that I love but also doing the work of what I'm intended to do so I mean it constantly shows up in my friends and my family and yeah my blessings that's amazing yeah I'm so grateful that you're a part of this film for many reasons I've seen it a couple times now and it's it's spectacular and people are gonna be encouraged their face is gonna be strengthened they're gonna be so yeah they're gonna start believing God for their impossible stuff I think they're gonna well my marriage can be restored then or you know my kid Ryan can come back home or whatever so I think that's gonna be great I want to ask you a couple more things before we finish and one is that this year I was telling you earlier there's another faith-based film coming out in August we are so cool overcomer and in this one year they're gonna be at least these two probably some other faith-based films and people are going to see these films in mass now like I can only imagine was out last year then there was war room and courageous and all these movies and I mean they're they're getting toward a hundred million dollar box-office representation yeah so Holly what's kind of going what what what's happening here these little faith-based independent films sure are drawing the attention of blind skate and Sony and Fox and all of these big industry names and yeah why do you think that is that this is an important time in the industry where faith matters and is working on screen well I think that well you know works of art should be created in every way I think that if you can create a work of art based on a true story or something that is inspirational that drives hope that reminds you of our purpose and our path you it's like you're getting the best of both worlds yeah and that there's so many people that are hungry for that they offer you know especially now it's very timely because we're going through a lot there's a lot of oil a lot of pain a lot of sorrow um we're all looking for something and so whether you know were an executive or you know we're from a small town and although you know in between we're all the same yeah we're all the same thing yeah all the same how important is it that this film is opening up Easter weekend oh you know how perfect the season of you know rebirth and renewal and a reservoir and resurrection I mean this is a resurrection story if there ever was one I mean you said it yeah absolutely what's next for you what's now how can we be cheering for you and celebrate you know looking forward to the future with you yes so Diane Warren wrote a song I'm standing with you yeah that she was inspired to write from of course the movie from the Smith story and I sing that song on our soundtrack and oh do you yes yes okay I'm sitting with you and I'm like you you know music was always my first love and something that always sort of comforted me yeah and now I'm going to pursue it for Chrissy not let's hope somebody shows up and you know it would be great if they loved the music but I just want to go on that journey because I never have been good for you yeah there's another sphere of see what happened why not you mean recording yes so I've done some songwriting in Nashville with a couple of great songwriters I know I know a great songwriter oh yeah Oh whose name's Anthony oh he learned everything he knows from his older sisters all heretics I've heard about his older sister I she's like oh angel but yeah so I'm just gonna try maybe an EP or you know just a personal music it is so great cathartic as well yeah maybe eventually produce and I'd love to write an episode of this is us so come on you little better right you're producing writing and producing that's great yeah that's great listen oh we're celebrating you I celebrate you one kisser to another I want you to know that we're cheerleading your success I think you're celebrating you we affirm you you freed a lot of us up like we've watched you do what you do not just as Kate but I'm talking about s Krissi and knowing that you've pressed through all the spirit and security to do it and that you keep venturing into new efforts pushing past new layers of fear and insecurity to do it you need to know you're freeing a lot of us up to say you know what if that girl from Florida can do it that's right then I can do it tastes right now that you got me crying up in here I'm serious thank you yeah this really means a lot to me thank you thank you so much good to tell you you too you too thank you