Звезды кино и шоу-бизнеса открыто рассказали о своем личном духовном опыте

Podcasts have become one of the last places where a conversation can actually go somewhere. No segment times, no publicist hovering — just a host, a guest and however long it takes to get to something true. Every so often, that something is faith. Not the kind you put in a press release, but the kind that shows up in a childhood memory or a morning routine or a story you’ve never told on camera before. Here are four times that happened. Mark Ruffalo Told His Wild Church Experience at a Jimmy Swaggart Revival Service On NPR’s “Fresh Air,” Mark Ruffalo recounted attending a Jimmy Swaggart revival service as a kid in Kenosha, Wisconsin — back before Swaggart’s very public fall from grace. When the televangelist made his altar call for the children, Ruffalo’s grandmother nudged him toward the front. As he stood in line watching other kids fall over, he realized he wasn’t feeling anything — and panicked. “Oh, man, I’m not going to be the one who — like, doesn’t get Jesus today,” he told producer Sam Briger. So he went with it, fell over and immediately felt ashamed. It’s the kind of story that sounds almost impossible in hindsight — a future movie star faking the Holy Spirit to spare his grandmother’s feelings — and Ruffalo tells it with the wide-eyed bewilderment of someone still not totally sure what to make of it. The full account starts around the 24:30 mark. Kathryn Hahn Revealed Her Acting Career Began With Psalty the Singing Songbook In a wide-ranging conversation on “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” Kathryn Hahn revealed that the first line on her acting resume wasn’t a school play or community theater — it was Psalty the Singing Songbook. For the uninitiated: Psalty was a large anthropomorphic blue hymnbook who gathered children around to sing songs about God, a character beloved by Christian kids of a certain era. Hahn described staying up late to build the costume out of a refrigerator box. “First I played Psalty the Songbook. P-S-A-L-T-Y,” she told Conan. “In church. In a play called Psalty the Songbook.” It’s a detail that lands somewhere between charming and surreal when you consider she’d go on to play Agatha Harkness in “WandaVision.” The conversation was genuinely delightful — which is exactly what you’d expect from Conan and a woman whose first acting gig involved a singing hymnbook made from cardboard. Oscar Isaac Shared His Experience at Cornerstone Festival in the ’90s Back in 2015, Oscar Isaac told “Nerdist” host Chris Hardwick about his teenage years attending Cornerstone Festival — the massive annual Christian music gathering that drew tens of thousands of fans before closing in 2012. Isaac described a sprawling scene of tents and stages, with Christian metal and hardcore bands playing across the grounds, and struggled to find a secular comparison that would do it justice. “I went to this thing called Cornerstone when I was in high school, which is like a Christian Woodstock,” he said. “It was like a Christian Coachella kind of thing.” The context gets funnier when you remember that Isaac wasn’t just a passive observer — he was also fronting his own Christian ska band, The Blinking Underdogs, a chapter of his biography that has since become something of internet lore. It’s a good reminder that even Oscar-winning actors had formative years that included mosh pits in a field in Illinois. Khloé Kardashian Opened Up About Structuring Her Entire Day Around Her Faith On a recent episode of her podcast, Khloé Kardashian described a daily faith practice that goes well beyond occasional Sunday attendance. She opens two Bible apps every morning before the day starts, prays throughout the day and, every night, prays with her children before continuing on her own. “It’s my security blanket,” she said of her ongoing conversations with God. Kardashian also shared that while her home was under construction, she went to the site and wrote Bible verses directly into the wooden framing — literally building Scripture into the walls. She pointed to praying through ex-husband Lamar Odom’s coma as the moment her faith became unshakeable. “I know I was heard by God,” she said. “My faith does not waver.”