{"id":21565,"date":"2022-11-04T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=21565"},"modified":"2023-08-02T08:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:34:41","slug":"christian-actor-lucas-black-left-hollywood-to-focus-on-his-family-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2022\/11\/christian-actor-lucas-black-left-hollywood-to-focus-on-his-family-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian Actor Lucas Black Left Hollywood to Focus on His Family, God"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After taking a break from Hollywood to focus on his family, Christian actor Lucas Black is back, starring in PureFlix\u2019s film, Legacy Peak<\/em><\/a>. Black plays Jason, a man hoping to impress the children of his soon-to-be fianc\u00e9, Sam and Ben. Jason takes Sam and Ben on a trip, but things soon go awry and Jason has to learn how to be a father in a survival situation. \u201cJason\u2019s character is stepping into the unknown. He\u2019s stepping into this fatherhood role that he doesn\u2019t really know much about. He didn\u2019t have a good role model. But what I really like about his character is that he looks to his heavenly Father for help. The things he really wanted, God had a different way of making that happen,\u201d Black said in an interview<\/a> with Momentum.<\/p>\n

Black\u2019s acting career began early, with his breakout role in 1996\u2019s Sling Blade<\/em> leading to a string of acting gigs, including a top spot on the popular show, NCIS: New Orleans<\/em> in the role of Christopher LaSalle. However, in the background, there were changes going on in Black\u2019s life. Although he had grown up a Christian, he had somewhat fallen out of his faith. That began to change however after he got married and started having a family. He married his wife, Maggie O\u2019Brien in 2010. After he and his wife welcomed their third child in 2015, he began to turn back to the Bible and his faith. \u201cThat [2015] was when the Holy Spirit convicted me. And really, my faith and my relationship with the Lord became a lot closer. That was when I was stepping into the fatherhood role. So I really wanted to point my kids in the right direction,\u201d he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By 2019, his priorities were beginning to shift as he began to want to spend more time with his family. \u201cBeing in the entertainment business since I was an early child, I was able to recognize how destructive it can be to families,\u201d he told Fox News Digital in an interview<\/a>. \u201cMost of the time that\u2019s because you\u2019re away from home for a long time and the working hours are very long\u2026 For three years, it was normal to work 70 hours a week. I would go to work, the kids would still be in bed. I would come home and they would already be in bed for the night going to sleep again. That doesn\u2019t bode too well with your relationship with your children\u2026 so for us, we knew that couldn\u2019t last forever.\u201d He left NCIS <\/em>in 2019 and took a break from acting, only recently returning to reprise his role as Sean in The Fast and the Furious <\/em>series.<\/p>\n

He described the role in Legacy Peak <\/em>as \u201can answer to prayer.\u201d \u201cWe decided to take a year off and really reflect and connect with my Heavenly Father and spend time together as a family. [But] we also noticed a big culture shift in 2020. I felt like for a long time that entertainment [had] undermined the fatherhood role\u2026 The fatherhood role [was] under attack. So to get a script like \u2018Legacy Peak,\u2019 one that is a positive fatherhood story, one that puts fathers in a good light, one that uplifts and encourages\u2026 I couldn\u2019t say no,\u201d he said. He recalled how the Holy Spirit had convicted him while still on NCIS<\/em> during an episode of \u201cThe Prodigal Stories Podcast<\/a>\u201d saying, \u201cThe Holy Spirit was nudging me to speak up at some of the things that were trying to be implemented on the show, to really fight for what is true. Some of the Hollywood agendas, the attack on the family or the attack on law enforcement \u2026 to really step up and try to be a voice to really fight against that agenda.\u201d He now hopes to focus his acting on projects that \u201cpoint people to Jesus.\u201d In summing up his goals for the future, he said, \u201cThat\u2019s kind of my journey; it\u2019s been great. In \u2018New Orleans,\u2019 I felt like God moved in a big way, not only in my life but in my wife\u2019s life as well and our whole family. So, you know, we just look to Him for answers and we just seek Him whenever we need help and just thank Him for how He\u2019s carried us through our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After taking a break from Hollywood to focus on his family, Christian actor Lucas Black is back, starring in PureFlix\u2019s film, Legacy Peak. Black plays Jason, a man hoping to impress the children of his soon-to-be fianc\u00e9, Sam and Ben. 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