Morgan Freeman on Telling God’s Story
Why the Oscar-winning actor, director, and TV host embarked on a global search for God.
The first thing I said to Morgan Freeman was that it was an honor to meet him. And the first thing he said back to me was that I shouldn’t say s--- I didn’t mean. Freeman was in Los Angeles to talk about his new show, The Story of God, premiering this Sunday at 9/8c on the National Geographic Channel. I told him the show struck me as oddly meta, the character God exploring the concept God. But that was the point. Because even though Freeman has played the white-suited puller of strings in Bruce Almighty, and even though his warm-molasses voice is undeniably heavenly, Freeman has a lot of questions about how God actually works. Like where do we come from? What's our purpose?