For his research into The apostleHe traveled to Hughes, Arkansas, where he slid on a local Pentecostal church on a Sunday.
Referring to how he grew up in a church American navy Family during the Second World War added Duvall: “I knew about the inner life of the Spirit, but I had never seen the church like that.
“People could hardly restrain the joy of their faith. Their faces lived with it, steeped in. People were on their feet, sang praise, screaming, screaming against God. The sky crackled with the Spirit.”
The actor said it reminded him of himself: “I knew the people in it church Had a gift, a story to share. Somehow I would tell that story on a day. “
Eventually he started the drama He “wanted to write for many years – a story of a preacher.”
He added that he wanted to show a “good” but “poor” man on the screen as we are “all” imperct.
Duvall said about his character: “Called by God at the age of 12, he becomes a respected minister with an exciting gift for charismatic preaching. But his family is torn apart by marbling. “