Actress Kristin Chenoweth never really had thought about what the animals in the Christmas story must have felt, she said.
They’ve always been there — in the text of Luke’s Gospel, in carols like “Away in a Manger” and “The Friendly Beasts,” and in Nativity sets brought down from the attic every December.
But she said she only needed to look as far as her own dog, Thunder, to understand why the producers of “The Star” decided to make a movie of the first Christmas from the vantage point of four-legged creatures. Thunder “knows what kind of day I’m having, right? He knows if it’s a good day or a bad day, and those animals did, too.”
Chenoweth gives voice to a mouse named Abby in the animated retelling of Jesus’ birth in theaters this holiday season.
“The Star” connected with her own faith, she said. Chenoweth grew up in a Southern Baptist church and now identifies as a “nondenominational” Christian who is “accepting of everyone.”
“When I heard the story, what it was, (I thought) this is what I believe. I do believe in the birth of Christ and who he was when he walked the earth, so, yeah, this is something that is easy for me to do.”
“The Star” has been in the Top 10 at the box office since it opened the weekend before Thanksgiving, according to Box Office Mojo.
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