War Room is Priscilla Shirer’s first feature film and now she’s a star. She dished to ET about her overnight success.
what is the number one movie in America
the film about a woman whose marriage
and spiritual life is in crisis has made
30 million dollars in its first 12 days
alone and its star 40-year old
Priscilla shine is in her first film
ever not a bad way to jump into the biz
we thought there’s definitely something
special here so Kevin Frazier flew to
Dallas to meet this week’s number one
box office stock I don’t know where you
are devil but I know you can hear me
tell me about the first day you go in
you’re the lead actress in this movie
what happens I just broke down and cried
I mean I sobbed because I realized how
nervous I was I think it was occurring
to me I’m gonna be in a movie you know
Priscilla’s performance is wrong
powerful and real that’s because in real
life she is a wife and mother to three
boys how does it feel to be the lead
actress in the number one movie in the
country gratitude that I’m grateful that
God let me be a part of this project
that is obviously blessing and touching
so many people so it’s less about the
hoora of being in a movie and more about
the opportunity that it is to be a part
of a movie that’s drawing people towards
spiritual things and towards the
importance of prayer I don’t have time
to pray that much every day but you
apparently have time to fight losing
battles with your hoods
big-name actresses wanted Priscilla’s
role but she was cast because she’s also
a well-known inspirational speaker whose
sermons are filled with passion Herod
couldn’t kill him Nero couldn’t crush
him the New Age cannot replace him and
Oprah cannot explain him away acting on
film is the exact opposite of being in
front of a large crowd
I had to rein in my impulse to project
and do all the things that I normally
have to do what I’m staying in a stadium
or a large church speaking to a group of
people have to do the opposite of that
this is amazing
this is my church how many people are
here on a Sunday
there are about probably between seven
and ten thousand that will come here on
a Sunday I loved being back in church
after filming the movie because coming
here it just feels like home again home
is the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church
founded by her father famed pastor Tony
Evans and like many women she works at
balancing her work her faith and her
family my friends who are over here
behind the camera they will tell you
that most of the time my hair is up on a
bun on top of my head there’s no makeup
on and I’m just doing laundry and
figuring out what’s gonna be for dinner
tonight at the table with my boys and
that’s my priority for now big question
are you gonna have to get will there be
another movie well yeah yeah no come on
boy
if you would have told me I would act
one time in a movie I would have laughed
if there is a project that came along
that gave me an opportunity to still
ride inline with the purpose that I know
has been set before me for my life I
would be open to it