Exclusive: Regina Hall and Sterling K.Brown talk Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul
Coming out this week from Focus Features is Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul, starring Regina Hall (Support the Girls, Girls Trip) and Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”, “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson”). Focus Features will release the film in theaters on Friday, September 2, 2022
Hot off its exciting Sundance Film Festival premiere, filmmaking sibling duo the Ebo twins, writer-director Adamma Ebo and producer Adanne Ebo, make their feature film debut with production company Pinky Promise in this adaptation of their previous short film of the same name. Also featured in the film are Nicole Beharie and Conphidance.
The film centers on Trinity Childs (Hall), the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist megachurch, who attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs (Brown), rebuild their congregation and reconcile their faith to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen. Shot in a faux-documentary style, the film takes a satirical look at megachurch culture and the often nebulous perspectives that are cultivated from being both entrenched in it, as well as finding yourself on the outside looking in.
Also featured in the film are Austin Crute, Conphidance, Devere Rogers, Avis Marie Barnes, and Nicole Beharie.
It is produced by Academy Award® winner Daniel Kaluuya through his production company 59% with Amandla Crichlow; alongside Adamma Ebo, Adanne Ebo; Pinky Promise’s Jessamine Burgum and Matthew Cooper; Rowan Riley; Kara Durrett; and Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown. Monkeypaw’s Jordan Peele executive produced.
For Regina King, this is her 10th film in the last four years. She can also be seen in the Netflix comedy Me Time, opposite Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg. Earlier this year, she starred in the Sundance thriller Master, which was then released on Prime Video. In December, she will be reprising her role as Candace "Candy" Sparks in Peacock’s The Best Man: The Final Chapters. That series is based on the cult classic The Best Man and The Best Man Holiday.
For Sterling K. Brown, he’s just coming off a six-year run as Randall Pearson on NBC’s This Is Us, when concluded its series this year. On the film, he voiced the role of Lieutenant Destin Mattias in Frozen II and starred in Trey Edward Shults’s Waves and Shane Black’s The Predator. He will be seen opposite Mark Duplass in the sci-fi movie Biosphere.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales caught up with Hall and Brown as they spoke their experience on Honk for Jesus, working with the Ebo Twins and their thoughts on the church.