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The film’s premise follows his journey back to faith, which also helped him learn to believe in himself again.
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Olmos’ character, Joe, lost his faith in God after experiencing a series of great tragedies in his family - first his son and then granddaughter. But it has a great sense of hope at the very end and throughout the whole movie.”Ī synopsis of the film reads: “Amid a crisis of faith, an amateur golfer receives a startling message from God on his computer screen.”
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“It's a really uplifting movie in that respect, not that it doesn't have its tragedy in it, it does.
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It was full of faith, full of hope, and it gave the elder - because I play a 68-year-old - a second chance at life when he most needed it,” the actor continued. "So I read it, and the story was beautiful, very passionate. “For somebody to do work, and then turn around when they're finished, 'Listen, I wrote this for you, would you take a look at it?' Wow, Mark Medoff – Yeah! 'Children of a Lesser God,' Pulitzer winner, Oscar winner, Tony winner. That very seldom happens,” Olmos told The Christian Post in a recent interview.
Mark Medoff wrote it for me and with me in mind to play the role. "I believe that the story itself was one that I was so grateful found my door. Along with Olmos, the film features Kathleen Quinlan and George Lopez. Olmos is the lead actor of the new faith-filled film “Walking With Herb," a comedy film directed by Ross Marks. Legendary actor Edward James Olmos says he has clung to his faith throughout life tragedies even as he recently lost family members due to COVID-19 and is encouraging others to cling to God in both the good times and bad. Facebook Twitter Email Print Img No-img Menu Whatsapp Google Reddit Digg Stumbleupon Linkedin Comment 0 Edward James Olmos | 130 Agency Akin to Blade Runner, it is a shocking if less than accurate portrayal of a modern day pandemic virus outbreak akin to. Although not a box office success, the Virus was notable for being the most expensive Japanese film ever made at the time. Most remarkable was Olmos playing a piano while singing a Spanish ballad during the later part of the film. During this film, he demonstrated his acting talents along side Masao Kusakari, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Ken Ogata, Sonny Chiba and Glenn Ford. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a novel written by Sakyo Komatsu. In 1980, Olmos was cast in the post-apocalyptic science fiction film Virus. He subsequently took the role to the filmed version in 1981, and appeared in many other films including Wolfen, Blade Runner and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. The play moved to Broadway, and Olmos earned a Tony award nomination. In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Olmos branched out from music into acting, appearing in many small productions, until his big break portraying the narrator, called “El Pachuco,” in the play Zoot Suit, which dramatized the World War II-era rioting in California brought about by the tensions between Mexican-Americans and local police. At the same time, he attended classes at East Los Angeles College, including courses in acting. For several years Pacific Ocean played various clubs in and around Los Angeles and released a record in 1968. While at Montebello High School, he lost a race for Student Body President to future California Democratic Party Chair Art Torres. He graduated from Montebello High School in 1964. In his teen years, he turned to rock and roll, and became the lead singer for a band he named Pacific Ocean, so-called because it was to be “the biggest thing on the West Coast”.
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He grew up wanting to be a professional baseball player and became the Golden State batting champion. His father was a Mexican immigrant and his mother Mexican American. Olmos was born Edward James Olmos in Los Angeles, California, where he was raised, the son of Eleanor and Pedro Olmos, who was a welder.
Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt. Edward James “Eddie” Olmos is a Mexican-American actor and director.
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