Interview with actor Robert Forster

Robert Forster has worked in many movies, as Jackie Brown,  Mulholland Drive, tv series Twin Peaks.

Q. In “The Case for Christ” you play  Walter Strobel. Please can you tell us about this role?

A. I play Lee Strobel's father, who Lee thought didn't love him... but Lee was wrong.

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Robert Forster

Q. How did you find yourself on the set?

A. The director Jon Gunn could not have been more generous to me. Mike Vogel will be a movie star.

Q. The film is about faith. What is your relationship to faith?

A. I have a conscience...that is a portal to faith.

Q. In your career, what is the first curious episode that you remember?

A. I was named: "Walks In Sight", by the Sioux elders during the filming of Journey Through Rosebud  in 1971. From that experience I understood that being known carries the responsibility of good behavior.

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Jackie Brown

Q. What about Jackie Brown.  How would you define that experience? 

A. Jackie Brown, the rebirth of my career.

Q. What is your favorite Italian movies?

A. Lina Wertmüller's, Swept Away is my favorite Italian movie... made me ask myself: What is the true relationship between men and woman all about? My first movie in 1966 was shot in Rome: John Huston's, Reflections in a Golden Eye. I thought I would surely return to Rome, but, sadly, I never did.