Actress Emily Rose rose to fame for her roles in popular series such as: Haven and emergencyBut for the first few years of her life, her eyes were on the farm, not Hollywood.
“I wanted to be a horse vet,” she told Crosswalk Headlines. Rose spent a day shadowing a real vet and returned home that night. She enjoyed the experience, but she soon realized she didn’t like caring for animals in distress. She also realized, in her words, that she wasn’t that good at science.
Looking back, she says, God had a different plan for her life. Coming from a Christian high school, Rose picked out a copy of Campus Life magazine during her senior year of high school and decided to pursue the arts, specifically studying theater at Vanguard University, a Christian school in California. (Her professors told her, “If this is what God has called you to do, [then] He will totally open the doors for you to go.”) She then went on to get her master’s degree from UCLA.
“I’ve always tried to blend my faith into my art, and I’ve always asked the Lord, ‘Okay, where do you want me to go? Where do you want me to be sent?’ Like in a mission field,” Rose told Crosswalk Headlines.
From 2011 to 2015, Rose Haven It aired on the Syfy channel. She also emergency and NCISRose’s latest project Journey to Heaven“The Great American Pure Flix” is a new series that follows everyday people as they experience extraordinary events and come face to face with God.Batman v Superman, man of steel) describes God.
Rose says she was initially hesitant to take on the role.
“I thought, ‘Wait, they’re talking to God? How do they do that? It might be a little cheesy,’ but then I saw that Harry was playing God and I got really excited about it, and that’s what made me want to be a part of it, because I knew it was going to be a really solid, grounded, amazing performance, which is so important when you’re dealing with subject matter where you’re really having conversations with God,” she said.
She said executive producer Dean Batali wanted to cast people of faith in the roles.
In episode one, Rose plays a busy businesswoman who interacts with the homeless. She says this episode and others depict moments when God “refines us and matures us in a deeper way through our faith.”
Rose said being a Christian in Hollywood has its challenges, and she has turned down opportunities because she wants to only take on roles that align with her values.
“In the arts, choosing to live and be a little differently than you can potentially have financial consequences,” Rose says, “but it’s really spiritually formative. It’s like asking yourself, what is life?”
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Michael Faust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His articles include: Baptist Press, Christianity Today, Christian Post, of Reef Chronicle, of Toronto Star And that Knoxville News Sentinel.
