![]() And I remember stopping right before we started filming. That is the hard conversations to have when you’re widowed. It’s still very awkward when I tell my son, “I have a gentlemen caller and I’m gonna go eat supper.” And he’s very cautious for his mother. When we got ready to do this thing where the mother, who was me and I’m widowed, and I’m walking across the bridge, having a chat with my son about “I’m thinking about going on a date.” I remember that awkwardness. Is there anything else about you that you might want to mention? They could extend it based on the response, surely. It’s hard to explain that to a corporation sitting behind a desk. You know, there is so many places that you try to figure out are your best markets, so that as many people can see it. Yes, they’ve been good to me in the past that, sadly, I think it’s in 700-800 theaters, and we’re trying to convince them where it needs to play. And he was just a great director of just guiding you into relaxing, and when someone would mess up, he’s just say, “We’ll do it again.” That made me feel good. But this, I think I was in almost every scene, so it was just really, really hard work. My movie roles have been really short and sweet. You know, I I went into this so nervous, because it was the biggest undertaking I’ve ever done. I met him at the “Run the Race” movie premiere. And he’s like, “Okay, it’s payback time.” There’s no telling what I’m going to have to do for him sometime.Ĭhris Dowling is great. And every time he had to do another take, he would look over me like, “You owe me big time.” We’ve been dear friends for years. Smith sings in one of the karaoke scenes dressed like Billy Ray Cyrus and he sings “Free Bird.” Yeah! (laughs) I think my favorite part of the whole movie is Michael W. I asked my pastor why the devils hates me so much, and he’s like “Duh!” Or maybe it’s just the devil that he hates me so much. And it’s just been plagued with one little just bad luck after another. By the time that could come into the movie theaters, I think the company that owned it had changed hands. ![]() It was supposed to come out the week we shut down with COVID. So, it’s just kind of really special for especially my son and I as it is finally making it to the theater. So, I’m just really excited because it was a true labor of love between David and I, and, and now he’s been gone for so long. There such as formula to tighten up scenes and things like that that I knew nothing about. And, and then that finally got floated around until it fell in the hands of Chris Dowling, and he really vamped the script up. So, it was it was a smarter read and have quicker read. ![]() Then I met up with a friend, Martha Bolton, who helped write “The Confession” and helped us get it into script form. I think what I understood it was just gonna be way too much money to film, that my market could not garner the support, because I didn’t we didn’t know anything about how you put treatments together. ![]() And immediately the director goes, “Well, I gotta read this.” Then he passed on it. My husband and I wrote an idea that I’m a Walmart greeter, and I have to win a karaoke contest because my house was falling in a sinkhole. I think I was the middle of doing a Hallmark movie and one of the directors said, “Have you ever done a movie around your persona?” And I said, “Well, as a matter of a fact I have.” I showed him the script or told him about it. It’s kind of the last story idea my husband and I worked on before he passed. Part of it is it’s a very sentimental thing. I know you’ve been in many movies, but what makes this one so special? In this exclusive interview, Pierce talks about the special “nostalgia” associated with the project, how she hopes it will inspire and speak to other widows like herself, lifestyle evangelism, and even how she managed to get Grammy Award-winning singer Michael W. Chonda Pierce image courtesy of Marushka Media.
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