關於他還有這個幕後花絮： This movie recreates, word-for-word, Tammy Faye's 1985 interview with Rev. Steve Pieters, which was highly controversial in Evangelical circles because it showed her giving grace, kindness, and the promise of heaven to a gay man with AIDS. Unspoken in both the real-life interview and the movie's recreation of it
(in which Pieters is played by Randy Havens) is the assumption that Pieters would not be alive much longer, since at the time AIDS was essentially untreatable and considered a "death sentence." However, against the odds, Pieters is still alive as of mid-2021 (having long outlived Tammy Faye).
In a September 2021 interview with Steve Duffy for EDGE Media Network, Pieters said that he thinks that Searchlight Pictures did not ask him for permission to portray him in this movie because they assumed he was dead: "I don't think they knew that I was around when they made the film. It was only through Jim and Tammy's son, Jay, that I found out that there
was to be a film and that had already finished filming. So I wrote a letter I found contact info for the studio and I wrote to Searchlight Pictures and said, 'Hey, I'm still alive! I'm still here!.' And they've been wonderful, we've had a really good relationship." The real Steve Pieters appears in the movie's "where are they now" credits coda.
日前奧斯卡獎為提名者舉辦的派對，潔西卡．雀絲坦攜伴的對象不是別人，正是皮耶特斯。他以驕傲的口吻問道：「有多少入圍者會帶著自己電影故事裡的真實人物出席入圍派對呢？」
This movie recreates, word-for-word, Tammy Faye's 1985 interview with Rev. Steve Pieters, which was highly controversial in Evangelical circles because it showed her giving grace, kindness, and the promise of heaven to a gay man with AIDS. Unspoken in both the real-life interview and the movie's recreation of it