“The Apostle”: An Interview with Robert Duvall

  • Author(s): Bill Blizek and Ronald Burke
  • When: 1998-04
  • Where: Journal of Religion and Film
  • What does Duvall think of southern Christianity and revivalist preachers in general? He has a fascination for them which began more than thirty years ago when he visited a Holiness church in the small town of Hughes, Arkansas. He says that he was intrigued by the cadence, rhythms and honest faith he witnessed in the songs and tent-meetings there. For Duvall, these revivalist tent-meetings are "an important part of American culture." The preaching is "a distinct American art-form."

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