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Charlie Cox Heads Powerful Cast in 'There Be Dragons'

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St. Josemaria Escriva is the focus of this new film by Rollin Joffe

Charlie Cox (Stardust, Stone of Destiny), who plays Fr. Escriva, spent a great deal of time watching films and listening to talks by the man he was to portray. Catholic Online talked with him about the role and his approach to playing a man who would later be declared a saint. The video of his answers accompanies this story.

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By Randy Sly
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
4/28/2011 (1 decade ago)

Published in Movies

Keywords: There Be Dragons, St. Josemaria, Escriva, Roland, Joffe, Charlie Cox

WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - On Friday, May 6, "There Be Dragons" will premier in theatres across the country. This is definitely a must-see film for all Christians, Catholic and Protestant alike.

It is the story of a man on the way to sainthood; a man so committed to Christ, His Church and His Mission that the idea of being saint actually never entered his mind. He was merely a man serving God. This is St. Josemaria Escriva.

Charlie Cox (Stardust, Stone of Destiny), who plays Fr. Escriva, spent a great deal of time watching films and listening to talks by the man he was to portray. Catholic Online talked with him about the role and his approach to playing a man who would later be declared a saint. The video of his answers accompanies this story.

"There Be Dragons" is not a biography of the saint. Rather, it is the revealing of his life and character through the story of two childhood friends who find themselves on opposite sides of the Spanish Civil War. One has become a priest committed to the care of souls, the other a soldier haunted by anger and revenge.

In the story, a journalist is investigating the life of a priest who is a candidate for sainthood. He also discovers that his estranged father knew the man, uncovering accounts of these two lives at a time when the country was in turmoil.

Cox and Wes Bentley (American Beauty) lead a strong ensemble the also includes Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace), Emmy Award-winning Derek Jacobi (The King's Speech), Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible II) and Rodrigo Santoro (300).

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Randy Sly is the Associate Editor of Catholic Online and the CEO/Associate Publisher for the Northern Virginia Local Edition of Catholic Online (http://virginia.catholic.org). He is a former Archbishop of the Charismatic Episcopal Church who laid aside that ministry to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church.

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