Kelsey Grammer portrayed pompous psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane for decades, first starring on "Cheers" and then receiving his own spin-off, "Frasier." The complicated character, who provided talk therapy on his radio show, earned Grammer multiple Emmy Awards and Golden Globes until the sitcom was canceled in 2004.
His new role as Pastor Chuck Smith in the movie "Jesus Revolution" hit home for a myriad of reasons, but mainly Grammer's own connection to religion. "It strikes me, you know, I probably have been preparing for [this role] all my life, honestly," Grammer said. "It was a pretty seamless transition into playing Chuck. "I'm kind of a Bible guy.
I've been reading the Bible all my life. I turn to it for prayer, for reflection, for information, and I just always have. It’s just always been sort of at my fingertips throughout my life, ever since I was a boy." He added, "So I have a relationship with the Word of God, as they call it, that it was probably akin to what Chuck Smith's relationship was with it." Based on a true story, Pastor Chuck makes friends with a hippie preacher making waves in the '70s counterculture movement, much to the dismay of his aging congregation. "I lived it.
I lived in that same time," Grammer said. "I lived throughout that period in the '70s and stuff and what he accomplished. I saw on some of the faces that I met in my life.
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