People like Sam Childers do not pop up often on the Hollywood publicity circuit. The subject of the unlikely action movie Machine Gun Preacher sported a leather biker jacket and chewed on a toothpick during our interview in Washington, D.C., looking like a patron of the rougher sort of bar. However, his speech was peppered with words like "born again" and "spirit-filled" and Bible passages.
Hollywood script writer Jason Keller, also in the interview, admitted he did not originally know what to make of his subject, but grew to respect him. "What I started to see in Sam [was] a man who's a preacher, who's a good Christian, who was flawed, but trying to be the best man and Christian he can be."
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