Not every actor who puts on a wig to play a real-life person is unrecognizable. That said: Jessica Chastain is unrecognizable as disgraced televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in the first photos from “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”.
Or, she is recognizable — as Tammy Faye, somehow resurrected from the dead to star in her own biopic, because that is not Jessica Chastain.
The movie looks at the “rise, fall and redemption” of Tammy Faye, who with her husband, Jim (Andrew Garfield), created an entire religious empire in the ’70s and ’80s, while navigating the less-than-holy scandal and drama behind the scenes of their empire.
Michael Showalter (“The Big Sick”) directs. The first photos from “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” include a recreation of the Bakkers’
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