10 Years In the past Immediately: Carrie Underwood’s Film Debut Stirs Controversy

Carrie Underwood hasn’t finished that a lot performing, however what she’s finished, she’s made it rely.

The nation celebrity made her performing debut in an episode of How I Met Your Mom in 2010, and the next yr she made her movement image debut in Soul Surfer, a film that traces up nicely with Underwood’s Christian religion. The religion-based components of the film wound up creating controversy earlier than the movie even premiered.

The movie tells the story of Bethany Hamilton, the champion teen surfer who misplaced her arm to a shark assault in 2003 on the age of 13. The film was tailored from Hamilton’s autobiography. Underwood performed the function of Sarah Hill, Hamilton’s finest good friend and a youth counselor at her church. Her friendship and encouragement helped Hamilton return to browsing in opposition to all odds. Hamilton received again on the professional browsing circuit simply months after shedding her arm.

Directed by Sean McNamara and shot in Oahu, the film stars Anna Sophia Robb as Hamilton, Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt as her father and mom and Jack Nicholson’s daughter, Lorraine Nicholson, as one among Hamilton’s shut mates. Craig T. Nelson and Kevin Sorbo additionally seem.

Based on the Hollywood Reporter, there was a lot behind-the-scenes controversy over a scene wherein Underwood’s character recites a passage from the Bible. An govt at Mandalay Photos debated whether or not or not they need to point out that the verse derived from the Bible, or whether or not the character ought to simply say the phrases with out attribution in an try and attraction to each Christian and secular audiences. In one other scene, he digitally eliminated the phrases “Holy Bible” from the quilt. After the Hamilton household objected, each components have been restored for the ultimate print of the movie.

“Are you able to think about if a personality mentioned, ‘Ask not what your nation can do for you — ask what you are able to do in your nation,’ however they acted prefer it was their very own, prefer it didn’t come from President Kennedy?” Tom Hamilton advised THR. “This could have been the identical factor. So that they relented on that time.”

Soul Surfer was screened for non secular leaders across the nation earlier than opening in additional than 2,000 theaters nationwide on April 8, 2011. Whereas it acquired combined critiques, it was an inexpensive field workplace success, and stays a household favourite for a lot of. Underwood has been very picky about her performing roles; since Soul Surfer, her sole performing credit score is her ratings-shattering flip as Maria in The Sound of Music Stay!

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