Dennis Quaid has deep ties to Texas.
The “Sovereign” star was born and raised within the Lone Star State and nonetheless has ties to the world. As Texans are coping with lethal flash floods that claimed over 100 lives, the actor shared a private story in regards to the day the floods started.
His daughter, Zoe, 17, was working as a counselor at a camp roughly 75 miles north of Kerrville, when information started breaking in regards to the flooding, Quaid instructed Fox Information Digital. She’d been attending the camp since she was a younger lady, and the evening the flooding started, he wasn’t in a position to come up with her.
“I heard about this as I was going to bed that night,” Quaid defined, “and I tried to call her because I knew she was up there. I knew it wasn’t near where the floods were, but I wasn’t able to talk to her till the next day.”
He added that he “didn’t really get a lot of sleep that night.”
Quaid mentioned his daughter and others on the camp have been “relatively safe up there,” however one other lady on the camp misplaced her household within the floods.
“One of the girls at that camp lost her whole family who were camping in an RV, I guess, on the Guadalupe River, and they were swept away,” he mentioned.
Quaid and his spouse, Laura Savoie, are additionally pals with the Hunt household. Clark Hunt, proprietor of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, misplaced a member of the family within the catastrophe, 9-year-old Janie Hunt.
“I can’t imagine how that would … how devastating that would be,” he admitted.
“We just need to pray for people,” he added, naming the Kerr County Flood Reduction Fund, a neighborhood fundraiser that’s supporting aid and rebuilding efforts locally.
“You think of those kids that night, and it just chills my heart. Do a lot of praying because there’s a lot of people that need to be prayed for still.”
Throughout his dialog with Fox Information Digital, Quaid additionally spoke about his new movie, “Sovereign,” which is in theaters and accessible for digital buy and rental in the present day.
The movie, impressed by true occasions, tells the story of a father and son, performed by Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay, who think about themselves sovereign residents, a gaggle the FBI refers to as “anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or ‘sovereign’ from the United States.” Quaid performs a police chief who crosses paths with them.
When requested in regards to the duty Hollywood has when portraying these sorts of politically charged tales, Quaid mentioned, “I believe when you simply attempt to inform the story because it occurred as a substitute of placing one thing else on it. … For example, I don’t actually wish to examine this to Democrats and Republicans proper now, or even ICE.
“Sovereigns are a different group. They’re not even anarchists to the sense. They don’t belong to anything. They don’t have a driver’s license. It’s like they don’t enter into a contract with the government, and so, therefore, they’re not subject to any laws that they don’t recognize.”
As for portraying characters with beliefs that differ from his personal, Quaid instructed Fox Information Digital, “I play individuals from their perspective.
“[How] we think and our actions are governed to a large extent by the way we grew up. But is it genetic or is it the environment that we were in? And both of those things contribute.”
Quaid defined that since “Sovereign” relies on a real story, he frolicked talking with the police chief his character was impressed by. And he mentioned the author and director, Christian Swegal, has a member of the family who’s a sovereign citizen.
“This story, I think, is mythic, in a way,” he mentioned. “It’s like something out of the Old West.”
