Vincent D’Onofrio Joins Cast of Fox Searchlight’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

Marvel’s Daredevil star Vincent D’Onofrio has signed on to play Jerry Falwell in Fox Searchlight’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye, according to Deadline.

D’Onofrio is playing Jerry Falwell – an American Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist – in the film about televangelist Tammy Bakker.

In addition to D’Onofrio, Gabriel Olds and Mark Wystrach are also joining the cast as Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson and country singer Gary Paxton respectively.

The three of them join a cast that already includes: Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Sam Jaeger as Roe Messner Chandler Head as Little Tammy Faye Cherry Jones as Tammy Faye’s mother Rachel Fredric Lehne as Tammy Faye’s step-father Fred

Chastain is also producing the film alongside Kelly Carmichael under their Freckle Films banner as well as Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane of MWM Studios.

The film is based on Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s 2000 documentary of the same name.

Abe Sylvia is writing the movie with Michael Showalter directing.Pritzker and Rachel Shane of MWM Studios.

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