UNITED KINGDOM
Christian Today
Florence Taylor JUNIOR STAFF WRITER 22 January 2016
Michael Keaton has spoken out about his Catholic upbringing, the value of faith and the danger of institutions ahead of the release of his new film, Spotlight, in the UK.
Keaton plays Boston Globe journalist Walter “Robby” Robinson in the film, which premiered in London on Wednesday. Robinson was the lead journalist in a team that exposed a child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in 2001.
The actor said, “I haven’t been Catholic since I was an altar boy… I’m lapsed”, but added that he still “drops in” to church and would always defend the value of faith.
Rather than an attack on the Catholic faith, Spotlight is a critique of the institution, he said.
“As much as I hate what’s happened in the world based on organised religion and people’s alleged faith, I’m a defender and think it’s good for people.
“I’m totally cool with my vision of what people call God and I’m good there, but what this movie’s about is not religion, but institutions. It’s about people who take power and seek power and use that power to disadvantage the disenfranchised and the powerless and it happens in a lot of places, literally all over the world.”
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