Isabel Sandoval Days after my episode of “Under The Banner of Heaven” premiered, I received a private message on Twitter from a Mormon consultant on the show though we never managed to connect during the shoot. “I just wanted you to know how beautiful your episode turned out.
The response here in Utah has been epic. Every day I’m receiving texts from ex-Mormons (and some current LDS) who absolutely loved it.
So many people are resonating with how beautifully you and Andrew [Garfield] captured the pain of a faith crisis.”The response feels both remarkable and especially rewarding to me, who is neither Mormon nor born and raised in Utah (or the U.S., for that matter).
I was born (and grew up) in the Philippines, the only predominantly Catholic country in Asia. I had a Catholic education from kindergarten to college.
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