When Hollywood star Robert Duvall made The Apostle , it changed his life forever, RadarOnline.com can reveal – but it almost never saw the light of day.
"For years, I wanted to make this film," said Duvall, who wrote and directed the movie himself.
He added in a frank chat about how it was a war to get it made it was a "labor of love" that started in 1962 when he "prepared to play a character from the rural South in an off- Broadway play."
For his research on The Apostle , he traveled to Hughes, Arkansas, where he slipped into a local Pentecostal church one Sunday.
Referring to how he grew up in a churchgoing U.S. Navy family during World War II, Duvall added: "I knew about the inner life of the Spirit, but I had never seen church like that.
"People could barely contain the joy of their faith. Their faces were alive with it, imbued. Folks were on their feet, singing praise and clapping, shouting to God. The air crackled with ..."
