Carrie Underwood's Faith in Soul Surfer

0:00It's April 8th. Music news today starts now. AI powered and always on beat. Carrie Underwood stepped into acting with her big movie role in Soul Surfer back in 2011. She played the best friend and youth counselor to teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who survived a shock attack at age 13 in 2003 and lost her left. The film follows Hamilton's inspiring comeback to pro surfing just months later. It had debuted on TV the year before and how I met your mother, but Soul Surfer matched her strong Christian faith perfectly. Shot in Hawaii, it stars Anisofia Ravis Hamilton with Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt as her parents. Behind the scenes, tension brewed over faith elements. Studio execs wanted to tone down Bible references to draw wider crowds. They debated hiding a verses source and even digitally erased Holy Bible from a book cover in one scene. The Hamilton family pushed back hard, comparing its acclaiming a famous Kennedy speech as original.

1:00Officials restored both changes before the final cut. The movie hit over 2,000 theaters on April 8th, 2011, earning mixed reviews but solid box office and lasting as a family hit. Underwoods kept thriving since her American idol win, dropping nine albums and building a fortune over $100 million.