'The Pope's Exorcist': Here's What Made Russell Crowe Believe Father Amorth's Accounts

Russell Crowe discusses making 'The Pope's Exorcist' and reveals what made him believe Father Amorth's accounts ...

In Sony Pictures’ The Pope’s Exorcist, Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe portrays the real-life Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, Father Gabriele Amorth. During his interview with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, Crowe reveals how the reality of the famed exorcist’s life experiences shook his foundations.

PERRI NEMIROFF: This movie is inspired by the real files of the character you play. Can you give us an example of something you read in those files or learned about Father Amorth's true experience that made you think, “No way this is possible,” but the more you learned about him, the more you believed?

So now you find this kid, he goes back to Modena, it's 1942, the Second World War is raging, and this young man who believes he's had a calling to serve God finds himself with a gun in his hand, and he's shooting to kill. He goes through his war experiences, comes out of those war experiences, and goes into law school. Gets his law degree, then starts working as a journalist.

I'm gonna wind up going down that rabbit hole after this and reading some of that. I did it with The Conjuring movies and the Warrens, and it's going to happen again here, I feel it. CROWE: The result of that deep dive that I did, it distilled down to two things for me. There's a purity of his faith. His belief is unquestionable, right? You can see when people are with him, and they've talked about it. And look, I met colleagues of his, I met friends of his, I met a man who did 160 exorcisms with him, and the way they talk about Father Amorth, it's not necessarily that he's on a pedestal, but he's certainly in his own rare air.

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