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I had the chance to interview former presidential candidate and governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee last Wednesday. We spoke while he was driving and the focus of our conversation was on the film God\u2019s Not Dead 2, which releases April 1. Huckabee plays a political commentator speaking about the main plot point of a teacher (Melissa Joan Hart) in a religious liberty case. Even so, I couldn\u2019t resist asking him his presidential prediction. Here\u2019s a portion of our conversation:<\/i><\/p>\n

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You had a lot of people supporting you on the presidential campaign and you ran a good campaign. Appreciated your voice in the process.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

I appreciate that. It obviously didn\u2019t end as I had hoped but that\u2019s part of the process. There\u2019s a huge risk when you run. You just don\u2019t know how things are going to shake out and I don\u2019t think anybody accurately predicted where this election year was going.<\/p>\n

Do you have any predictions of how you think the race is going to go now?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s hard to say but it certainly appears that Donald Trump is on his way to what looks like an unstoppable nomination and I think if he gets the nomination he will be president. I think people have underestimated him all along. He\u2019s actually a very smart man. He knows what he\u2019s doing. The people who assume he\u2019s out there kind of just waking up everyday in a new world, they don\u2019t understand. He knows exactly what he\u2019s doing and he\u2019s brilliant at it. He has tapped into a lot of the frustration that people rightly have about the government and institutions that have miserably failed us and he has given people a sense of hope that if he were president, he wouldn\u2019t be owned by the normal corporate donors. I think that\u2019s one of his greatest selling points, because he\u2019s self-funding his campaign, he\u2019s not indebted or totally indentured to the donors who are funding him.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for you, Governor? Will you resume your talk show?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m waiting to see what opportunities come my way. There was no guarantee when I left that I would have a pathway back so it could be that they invite me to come back and do that, but there\u2019s just not guarantee at all. I\u2019m taking it a step at a time and recovering from what was a very brutal year of campaigning. Then we\u2019ll take it from there.<\/p>\n

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God\u2019s Not Dead 2 <\/i>comes at an important time, where everything is talking about religious liberty. Can you tell us why it\u2019s such an important subject?\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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I do think that religious liberty is an issue of great importance. We\u2019re seeing people lose their basic fundamental rights. A good example of that is we\u2019ve seen people who are bakers and wedding chapel operators and caterers and all sorts of people who have been literally put out of business because they believe the same thing about marriage that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton claimed to believe just four years ago. It\u2019s just remarkable that we\u2019re living in such a time that people are essentially being criminalizing for their faith. Sometimes it\u2019s subtle. It\u2019s like the Frisco school district just outside of Dallas. They were ordering kids not to wear red and green in their clothing in the month of December because it might cause somebody to think about Christmas and that might make them think about Jesus. It\u2019s that kind of nutty stuff that\u2019s remarkable.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Did you tape your scenes separately or did you have interactions with the cast?\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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No, it was all taped separately. Just that scene was done on a soundstage so the only people that were there were those who were in that particular scene with me.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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We\u2019ve seen a lot of lot of faith-based films lately that have hit the big screen, some from Christian companies and some from mainstream companies. What are your thoughts on the booming faith-based film industry?\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s one of the most positive developments that we\u2019ve seen. Hollywood has consistently offended the Christian community and it has gotten incredibly worse. So Christian filmmakers have decided that there are people who want to go to movies but they don\u2019t want to take their families to have something that undermines every value that they hold. I think the most positive development is that the quality of films themselves has risen to a new level. Films like God\u2019s Not Dead 1 and 2, Woodlawn, many other Christian films that are coming out. (In the past), the quality (of religious films) was cheap and cheesy but you kind of forgave the production because you embraced the message. But a secular world is not going to embrace that poor quality. I think that\u2019s one of the things that\u2019s been most positive, a very strong quality that\u2019s been put into the films and the script, using top-notch professional actors, really making a film that\u2019s competitive with anything else on the big screen.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Do you have any future aspirations to appear in more movies or is this a one-off thing?\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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I would love to. I don\u2019t know if the opportunity would surface again but if it did, I would jump at it. It would be a great thrill for me.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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