Masey McLain was a little girl when her dad first watched Flywheel and loved it. She remembers watching him love it. Twenty years later, she got a call asking her to voice Anna, the wife, in the Brazilian remake, Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul. She said yes immediately. The challenge was matching the cadence, inflection, and emotion of an actress she had never met, in Portuguese, directed over the phone from Los Angeles while she was in Atlanta.

A movie about integrity, a breakthrough role that led to silence, and a farm with seven goats who once broke into the brand new house and turned the oven on: Masey shares what drew her to voicing Flywheel, what the film’s central message about radical obedience to Christ costs the lead character, and what it felt like when the phone stopped ringing after her breakout role as Rachel Joy Scott in I’m Not Ashamed. She also talks about the writing partner she found in COVID who is now her co-writer on Christmas movies for Candice Cameron Bure, why she believes film that changes lives outlasts film that simply entertains, and how Meredith Andrews pulled her aside and told her God was going to use the silence for something else, which is exactly what happened.

Highlights

• Why voicing a Brazilian actress in Portuguese from a studio in Atlanta with a director on the phone in LA was one of the hardest things she has done
• How her father’s love for the original Flywheel made this role feel personal before she ever said yes
• What the film says about radical obedience, putting everything on the line when God says to, even when it looks insane
• How she got her breakout role as Rachel Joy Scott in I’m Not Ashamed and still gets messages saying it changed people’s lives
• Why the phone stopped ringing after I’m Not Ashamed, what she did with that season, and how Meredith Andrews told her something she did not want to hear but needed to
• How she found her writing partner in a fellow I’m Not Ashamed actress during COVID and they have now written three Christmas movies together
• A Second Chance Christmas, her third Christmas movie for Candice Cameron Bure, now airing on Great American Family
• Seven goats, five ducks, a pony, a cat, a dog, fresh eggs every morning, and one goat who broke in and turned on the gas stove

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• 🌐 Masey McLain Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maseymclain
• 🎬 Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul: in theaters October 16
• 📺 A Second Chance Christmas: now airing on Great American Family
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