In new film The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the unusually accepting religious TV star is brought to life by Jessica Chastain
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Thirty-six years have passed but, at a cinema in
New York this week, the memories came flooding back for Steve Pieters.
The Aids activist was attending the premiere of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a film that includes a recreation of a seminal TV interview he gave to Christian televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985.