Oscar Isaac, the dashing X-Fighter pilot Poe Dameron of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was raised in an evangelical household. "My dad was a man of extremes," he told GQ magazine. "So if God spoke to my father one day and said we were not supposed to have a TV in the house, it was suddenly gone." Isaac, who would play the father of Jesus in the 2006 The Nativity Story, did not have the faith of his father. He describes his religious separation as a "slow amputation." Dameron says religion is akin to the acting experience:

A director is always thinking, "What is the right combination of words that I can say that will unlock the right response in you? If I can say the right thing, it will unlock this thing in you, but if I say it wrong, the opposite will happen." Religion is a very similar thing. Like, somebody was meditating long enough that they put the right sentence together and thought, "If you say these words in exactly this way, you'll know how to live, but you have to say it exactly like this."