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Jessica Chastain Is Donning the Lashes of Tammy Faye Bakker

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Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield are about to get their pray on for a new feature at Fox Searchlight. According to Variety, the pair will star as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in a film directed by Michael Showalter. Based on the World of Wonder doc The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the film will show the rise and fall of the Bakkers. Jim and Tammy Faye rose from nothing to create the PTL Network, the biggest religious broadcasting network in the world. They even had their own patriotic theme park, Heritage USA. Jim Bakker was taken down by cheating and scamming scandals, but his and Tammy Faye’s prosperity-doctrine teaching lives on. Tammy Faye became something of a camp icon for her makeup and emotional presentation on the PTL Club. And yet no one dressed as her for the Met Gala. It’s enough to make you cry.

Jessica Chastain Is Donning the Lashes of Tammy Faye Bakker