In 1997, when Kate Bosworth was in her teens, she had a small role as an extra on 7th Heaven. The show was the late-’90s, early-aughts version of Leave It to Beaver with just a touch more church, full of family-centered plot lines and values like love and hope and perseverance. Nearly two decades later, the actress has returned to her wholesome, otherworldly roots, starring in 90 Minutes in Heaven as the strong-willed wife of a preacher (Hayden Christensen) who dies, goes to heaven, and reluctantly returns to spread the message of hope on earth.
When Bosworth thinks about heaven, she doesn’t particularly think of a man on a white horse, or Jesus, or thrones. She and her film-director husband, Michael Polish, worked together on the movie, and when I asked whether it had made her think about the existence of God and heaven, she said it would have been “impossible not to.”
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