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Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Actor Dennis Quaid stars in I Can Only Imagine 2, directed by Andrew Erwin and Brent McCorkle. In this interview, Quaid talks about what continues to resonate with him about Arthur, his character in the movie. Director Andrew Erwin talks about his main goal in telling this second chapter, and about music and family. The film follows Bart Millard of MercyMe in the aftermath of the breakout success of I Can Only Imagine. With sold-out arenas, a devoted fan base, and a thriving career, Bart seems to be living the dream. As Bart navigates a new health diagnosis affecting Sam, he tries to keep his family grounded while his wife Shannon remains a steady source of strength and optimism. With Sam, and newcomer Tim Timmons, joining the band on a major tour, Bart must balance fatherhood and fame while encouraging his son to find his own voice. Actors Milo Ventimiglia, John Michael Finley, Sophie Skelton, Arielle Kebbel, Joshua Bassett, Sammy Dell and Trace Adkins also star in I Can Only Imagine 2, in theaters on February 20th.

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00:00Dennis, what continues to resonate with you about Arthur, your character?
00:06The redemption, you know, that's a redemption, you know,
00:13getting something that you feel like you don't deserve.
00:18And, you know, that's, I think, relates to everybody.
00:26That, you know, that was the lesson in that movie for me.
00:33And I think it resonates with audiences, redemption stories,
00:39which these guys tell really well.
00:42Yes. Andy, what was your main goal in telling this second chapter?
00:49You know, for this, the goal in doing this was I wanted to do a movie that completed the original
00:56movie,
00:57and it didn't feel like just doing the same thing again.
01:01And the first movie was such a satisfying journey, but it was really satisfying for Bart as a son.
01:08But this movie is about Bart as a dad.
01:11And how do I give my kids something that wasn't given to me?
01:14And because of the volatile relationship with Arthur, he just feels like he doesn't have the goods to be able
01:20to be a dad.
01:21And so that idea of what happens after the happily ever after,
01:25what happens after you get what you think you want,
01:28and what happens when life goes back to being really hard.
01:32And this is about Bart having the courage to find the gratitude in life to fight for his own son.
01:37And it's a beautiful father-son story, but from the other side, and we get to kind of fully heal
01:43the relationship with Arthur in this movie.
01:47And I can't wait for audiences to see it. It's exciting.
01:50And for you, how would you describe the relationship between Arthur and Bart now in the second movie?
01:57It was, I think, told in memory. Really, it's Bart's memory of what their relationship became, what he always wanted
02:08it to be.
02:12And, you know, that's, and there's a chain there, you know, of fatherhood from, you know, from Arthur to Bart
02:21to his son.
02:23And that's, that's, I think that there's something about fathers and sons.
02:33It just really is, it just makes some great stories.
02:36The men, Romans struggle with that throughout their lives, really.
02:41Andy, how did you balance Faith music and family in this movie?
02:47Well, it's definitely a music movie.
02:49And the music in this movie is every bit as good as the original.
02:53I still geek out that U2 allowed us to use 40 from their, from their Under the Blood Red Sky
03:00recording,
03:01that recorded at Red Rocks, and then we got to re-record it, you know, and perform it there.
03:06And then the song that really, the two songs that are the backbone of the story are the old classic
03:12hymn,
03:13It Is Well With My Soul.
03:14And so It Is Well really services as really the underbelly of the, the questions that we're asking in this,
03:22of where's a good God when it's hard and when they're suffering.
03:26And then the, and then that leads to kind of a modern version of that song, which is this song
03:30Even If,
03:30that this songwriter Tim Timmons writes with this idea of trying to find gratitude in the hard things in life.
03:37And what happens even if, you know, it doesn't work out the way that you want.
03:41And so those songs really speak into it.
03:45And then family, it's, it's all about the family, you know.
03:48And that idea of that link of fatherhood from Arthur to his son and now Bart to his son,
03:55that, you know, is this kind of redefining a whole generation of Millard men.
04:01And it's, it's really relatable as a, as a father of this, like,
04:05how do I have the courage to give my family things that I don't know that I had enough of.
04:09And so I think it's really going to resonate with people.
04:12From journaling the
04:12crew. After
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