. >> so, i play a man called sam childers who was a drug addict, you know, violent man who lived in pennsylvania who finally got his life together, found god, went down to do some missionary work in africa where he witnessed atrocities in sudan, and it changed his life, and he ended up, one, becoming a preacher, but two, fighting to build an orphanage to take in this orphan kids. also he started fighting the rebel forces who were kidnapping these children to bring them back into the orphanage. he's kind of got a bible in one hand and a machine gun in the other while still trying to have a family back in pennsylvania and run a church that he built there and still dealing with his own demons. because he's a dark soul. >> god-fearing bad boy sees the light. parallels as you were filming? are you thinking -- i mean, very different story line. >> sometimes you read a script and you don't know why, you just think i connect with this, then it's almost embarrassing to say it out loud that i would feel parallels with that. because, of course, what he's achieved is so much more than me. i didn't go in and