Jennifer Grey talks about new movie, 'Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation' l GMA

New York Times best-selling author it's taking on now the story of a famous and controversial religiously to the new Lifetime movie Gwen chamblin starving for salvation welcome back thank you so much now I confess I had not heard of Gwen chamble before tell us about her I hadn't either I got the offer and I immediately googled this person who I know understanding of who she was in the world turns out there's more information on the internet about this woman than the Kardashians which we do well she was a diet Guru started off at this church in Tennessee very kind of small she really wanted to lose weight with God's help so with her church she came up with this program it got really popular she wrote a book it was I think she saw Millions over 20 years people were completely devoted to her and then in Tennessee where it is you don't find a lot of churches founded by women she founded the remnant Fellowship Church and there she became a prophet and all of these followers did whatever she said she had very very strict ideas about how to lose weight very very extreme and people would do whatever she wanted and that she said you know you should beat your children with hot glue sticks on their bare skin for discipline and and if that didn't work you could lock them in the room for three days with just a Bible oh that's delightful yeah let's take a look wow I don't think the dress is the problem Tammy you have put on a lot of weight only a few pounds oh oh my gosh Tammy come on Gwen I can lose it in three days I can't have you up on the stage looking like 10 pounds of potato shoved into three pound sack goodness gracious well and your transformation as you just saw like complete you really dove in and you said the wig that we just saw was important to get right well the wig was as soon as I got the offer I said okay I need three things I need a really great dialect coach as much as I need all I can eat I need the greatest wig maker Jamie Lee Curtis said you call Rob Pickens right now you get fitted for that I said I haven't closed my deal you get that I was like okay okay okay I go to Rob Pickens I was like I'll pay for it if I don't close my deal but I guess we have to start I did the dialect coach all the time for only had two weeks they made the wigs it was like four different looks because it spans 20 years and did it really it helped you dive into the character I mean I guess so because I could I had trouble not see I'm having trouble now I kind of hear it it's just weird it's like takes me over and then you have two hours in hair and makeup and you have this and then she dresses a lot like kind of like Pamela Anderson like really like lots of lots of like she just starts to shrink and shrink and as time goes on her hair just gets bigger and bigger and the higher the hair the closer to God and it was almost like you could track her Mental Health through her hair what part of her story stuck with you the most I think the idea that she harnessed that that many years because of people's vulnerability to hearing a silver bullet a recipe to basically feel like they're enough and if you are a certain weight and a certain shape and a certain number on the scale then you can be lovable by God you can be lovable to yourself you can be lovable to others and anything anything shy of that is a sin and she tapped into that real self-loathing that I think is epidemic and basically I consider her to be the personification of eating disorders that she is the voice that people with eating disorders hear which is unless I am down those four pounds unless I'm down at 200 pounds I I don't exist the voice of God yeah well she says it is God God is her boyfriend oh At first she said I've always felt like God was my boyfriend he's like the you know the hot guy the football team just knows how to come in and take care of everything and then she divorces even though she said it is a sin to divorce and then she marries a God who becomes her God she marries a guy who then is basically God's Throne over for the guy so we also heard Dirty Dancing coming back you're going to start an executive produce that is this story yeah we're not um we're not giving up any dates at the moment because it's all really what I'm doing my whole job with this is to get it right to get it really right you know and Patrick's honor in honor of all of the fans relationship to the movie and it just you know if you're going to do that movie again it has to be right yeah and so but it's definitely happening it's definitely happening so exciting thank you so much I'm very excited to say that it is uh it's something that I refuse to do unless it's perfect and so I'm doing my very best to make sure that we honor it and I'm sure you will succeed we're also looking forward to seeing Gwen shamlin when shamlin starting for salvation premieres this Saturday on Lifetime fasten your seat belts well hey there GMA fans Robin Roberts here thanks for checking out our 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Length: 6min 9sec (369 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 31 2023