![]() Told he’d never race again, and he just refuses to take no for an answer. Wouldn’t take no for an answer he was wounded in combat, came home and was “It’s a great story, paying tribute to this guy who just That the character they wanted me to play was really well written,” AdkinsĮxplains. Work with the USO and Wounded Warrior Project. Singer knows well both personally as a father, and professionally through his (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for “Bennett’s War”)Įasier once Adkins read the film’s script, which touched on subjects that the “That’s never happened, we’ve never had to make that decision, because this far I just haven’t taken on any that don’t fit naturally into my schedule.” NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – AUGUST 05: Trace Adkins attends “Bennett’s War” Red Carpet Screening With Trace Adkins at Regal Green Hills on Augin Nashville, Tennessee. “It has to fit into my schedule, unless it’s something, and then we might have to figure out a way for it to fit,” he tells Sounds Like Nashville. Gig that he may have to make room in his schedule for after this film’s ![]() It is perhaps the strongest role of the country singer’s acting career, a side Someone for support who would be looking to him for support in a perfect world. Performance as patriarch Cal Bennett, a proud man who finds himself relying on A lot of this was a challenge, and to be honest, that was Job is just imagination based, I use my life experience to draw from, and justīroaden out from there. Motorbikes, but I’ve never raced motocross, and I’m not a father. In the military, although I came close to enlisting once. Of this was the hardest for me,” Roark continues. L-R: Michael Roark, Allison Paige, Trace Adkins Phpto Courtesy of Forrest Films “You mean nervous, like ‘Oh, I hope I get this right’? It all makes you nervous, man there’s not a single part of this job that doesn’t make you anxious, and anyone that tells you that it doesn’t is probably lying,” he laughs. When asked by Sounds Like Nashville if portraying a soldier and Motocross athlete carried with it a higher level of anxiety than other acting gigs he’s had in the past, the young actor seems taken aback for a moment. Taking on the job of bringing a form of entertainment to a group of Americans who may feel underrepresented onscreen may seem daunting to some, but War star Roark takes it in stride. TRACE ADKINS MOVIES FULLMake films that would speak to America, and to families full of faith. He has a very successful oil company with Lucas Oil, but he wanted to Spoke to one another about the movies we’d be making, was clear in wanting to make films that spoke on faith andįamily. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for “Bennett’s War”) NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – AUGUST 05: (L-R) Michael Roark, Allison Paige, and Trace Adkins attend “Bennett’s War” Red Carpet Screening With Trace Adkins at Regal Green Hills on Augin Nashville, Tennessee. Speaking to Sounds Like Nashville, Kennedy says that it was one of the main factors that brought him to one of the hottest new distributors in Hollywood. War is just the latest project from Forrest Films to call upon the subjects of spirituality and rural America, a pattern that is by design according to Scott Kennedy, president of worldwide marketing and distributing for Forrest. Roark), a young Army Motorcycle Unit member who must adjust to civilian lifeĪfter an IED explosion sends him home from combat with a broken back and leg.įinding his father (played by Adkins) struggling to keep the family farm fromīeing foreclosed on, Marshall must make a near-impossible return to motocross ![]() He’s got the voice, and he’s such a presence asīennett’s War tells the story of Marshall Bennett (played by Michael Tells us with a laugh, “but I just feel he brings a real John Wayne I mean, he’s huge anywhere he goes anyway,” Lawrence TRACE ADKINS MOVIES MOVIELawrence, on-hand to show support for his friends involved with the movie and enjoy some post-festivities at the neighboring Cheesecake Factory (“I’m gonna get me a slice of some Raspberry Swirl, with strawberries on top, and I’m going to the house!”), believes that the “Every Light in the House” hitmaker may soon be talked about in the same breath as legends of the screen. Once considered something of a novelty in Hollywood, where thespians capable of embodying the masculinity found onscreen in decades past are few and far between, the singer has become an in demand presence on productions in recent years.Ī red carpet premiere was recently held in Nashville, where Sounds Like Nashville was able to speak to many of those involved in the making of Bennett’s War (in theaters now), and perhaps no one could better explain Adkins’ importance to a film production than fellow country legend Tracy Lawrence. It may come as a surprise to some, but the release of the new film Bennett’s War marks country superstar Trace Adkins’ thirtieth screen credit as an actor. ![]()
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