Kevin Sorbo – Christmas Light

As I was coming home last night, TMZ was there waiting for me and asked, “So your movie was talking about being anti-Muslim.” I said, “What are you talking about?” “Well you talked about ISIS.” I go, “Oh, so are you pro-ISIS? Should I be worried?” [Laughs] In an hour and forty minutes, I think we mentioned “ISIS” maybe twice. So, they take roughly five to six seconds of the movie and label me “anti-Muslim?” I said, “Whoa, you guys are amazing with your labels. Tell you what, I’ll be very proud to say I’m against ISIS. I’m very proud to say that I’m against people who kill people.” [Laughs] So, I think the guy didn’t know how to react to me. It was actually pretty funny. I love having fun with those guys because they’re always trying to paint you as the “bad guy.”

CCM: In one of the scenes in Let There Be Light, Sean Hannity says to you and your wife, “Are you guys ready for the amount of heat that will be coming your way from all of this?” In your real-life Hollywood experience, what’s it like to stand up for your faith in that environment day after day?
KS: There’s a push back, no question. I mean, we tried to get on screens and they would go, “Well, you know, there’s a different sort-of worry about making sure we get the people in the theaters…we gotta know that they will come.” I mean…if it’s gonna be Star Wars 47 or another Thor movie… I mean, I like those movies, too. But, those movies don’t leave people with something that they can really relate to or identify with. I think movies like Let There Be Light does. I mean, the amount of emails we’re getting where people are saying, “Nobody’s leaving the theater…they sat in the theater, watched the entire credits until the lights came on. People sat there. They were crying. They were motivated. They were cheering. We’ve been hearing a mixture of emotions from people saying that, “This is such a great movie. We wish Hollywood would make these kind of movies.” It’s like I said, everybody’s got an agenda, I guess.

Did I get a kick back from Hollywood? Sure I did. I had two award-winning series that made millions of dollars, Hercules and Andromeda, but once I came out of that Christian-conservative closet, all of a sudden…. [Laughs] In an industry that screams for tolerance, I mean there as adamant about tolerance—but there’s really zero. Then when I say, “Look in the mirror,” people make me out to be the hater. Then they scream for freedom of speech but, see, tolerance and freedom of speech are one way streets with these people. It’s just amazes me.

scene from “Let There Be Light”—L-R: Sorbo, Sean Hannity, Sam Sorbo

I don’t wanna push myself on people. I mean, look, I’ve got Atheist friends. We have great debates. We go going golfing together and have a good time. I mean, you can believe the way you wanna believe. I’m just giving people the option to and encouraging that Atheists and Agnostics can come to the same movie. Maybe they’ll view it as a comedy? That’s fine, come on out! I dare to have an Atheist that has no belief in anything to come see my movies and not be moved in a couple of places. To at least touched…if they’re not touched, then there’s no hope for them whatsoever. They have no emotional soul in their body. And there are people like that. Let’s face it. There are people that are filled with so much hate, so much anger, and we have so much division in this country. I mean, what are you going to do? But, to me it’s like, “You know, I’m a live-and-let-live kind-of guy,” and I invite them to come to the movie and see it for themselves.

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