Well, they caught our eyes.The first trailer for the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye has arrived, bringing with it our first look at Oscar-nominee Jessica Chastain as televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker opposite fellow nominee Andrew Garfield as her fellow evangelist and sometime husband, Jim Bakker.Related: This Oscar-nominee has been cast to play Tammy Faye Bakker in new biopicIn the 1970s, the Bakkers rose to fame for their campy brand of Christianity, integrating puppets and musical numbers into their evangelism.
By 1978, the pair had parlayed their popularity into a “Christian news” program called The PTL Club as well as launched their own Christian theme park, Heritage USA.