we celebrate Dogma it was a family affair for Kevin Smith.
As the religious satire turns 25 this year, Smith recalls attending the premiere of the cult classic at the New York Film Festival with his daughter Harley Quinn Smith and wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith.
When the family got to Lincoln Center, “We got out of the car and we had this little set of angel wings [on Harley]” Smith, 54, says of her daughter, who is now 25 but was just 3 months old at the time.
Speaking about some of the film’s controversial themes, he adds: “We get out of the car, a thousand people are protesting, holding a huge statue of Mary and praying the rosary and yelling at us and stuff.”
“So that’s the world she was born into, man,” Smith says.
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Kevin Smith and daughter Harley Quinn Smith.
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Directed by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Dogma like fallen angels trying to get to New Jersey and get back to Heaven. Linda Fiorentino plays a counselor at an abortion clinic who must stop them in order to prevent the implosion of all existence.
The 1999 film stars Chris Rock, Janeane Garofalo, Jason Lee, Salma Hayek, George Carlin and Alan Rickman, and stars Alanis Morissette as God.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly in a career retrospective published last month, Smith recalled receiving “400,000 pieces of hate mail and three credible death threats” after the publication Dogma.
“The movie featured a rubber poop monster,” said the writer-director-actor, who also appeared as Silent Bob (in Jay Mewes’ Jay) in several of his films. EW. “Can you imagine being that mad about a movie with a rubber poop monster?”
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Kevin Smith and daughter Harley Quinn Smith. Getty Images Kevin Smith received death threats Dogma: ‘Imagine getting that angry over a movie with a rubber poop monster’
Some people were offended by the director’s disrespect for Catholicism and religion. Among the hateful messages was an anti-Semitic letter that read: “‘…we’re coming there with shotguns,'” he recalled. EW.
“I hope whoever wrote that, that message, has found peace,” Smith said.
Dogma currently unavailable on streaming platforms.
Smith’s new movie, Movie from 4:30distributed by Saban Films, it is now available in digital form.
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