10 Times Actors Had Personal Reasons For Taking Film Roles
2. Kirk Cameron Just Wants To Save You From The Rapture S
In the 1980s, Kirk Cameron was known as a teen heartthrob as Mike Seaver on ABC's Growing Pains. He had a successful run of film roles at the time, having the privilege of working with the late, great Dudley more in the body-switch comedy Like Father, Like Son. But he broke many a heart when he married his TV show girlfriend Chelsea Noble.
After Growing Pains ended, it appeared that Cameron had settled down, retiring from mainstream work and living the good life with his family and all that Growing Pains cash.
By "The good life", we unfortunately learned we aren't referring to a peaceful house in the suburbs. Cameron had partnered with Evangelist Ray Comfort, founding The Way of the Master - a TV show he co-hosts of the Religious Broadcasting Network. He's a proponent of creationism, linking Darwin to Nazi ideas and handing out free copies of the scientist's book with large portions removed - namely all the science.
But he's still an actor, after all, only pushing a different agenda than most - and hard. He starred in the low-budget Left trilogy as a cynical atheist who must contend with the anti-Christ after the Rapture. Since, he's been in other films primarily screened in Church basements after Bingo.