As a child I loved books. Especially comics. I stayed late, flashlight under the covers, browed through pages and stories of action heroes that lived larger than life and filled my little spirit with big dreams. Somehow I felt that their muscle and strength focused on something.
It is funny to look back now and to realize that those late-night pages were the small seeds of a much larger calling. While Mama often called from the next room, “Kevin, Lights Out, go to bed,” made a little itching in me a late-night rebel that stayed far beyond my bedtime.
All those years ago it was as if there was a Herculean push in the body of a small child. I couldn’t call it then, but I felt it in my bones.
Kevin Sorbo attends the 11th annual K-Love Fan Awards on the Grand Ole Opy on 26 May 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty images)
Years later, pages and photos would become a real costume and play Hercules on a soundstage in New Zealand for what would be one of the most viewed shows in the world. But long before that break came, there were a thousand moments that I could walk away and had closed the book completely, so to speak.
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I could have stayed in Minnesota. I could have had a rejection carried. I could have believed the voices that said, “Be realistic.” And with that I would have ignored something sacred: that calm appetite for something more. Something that was missing but with goal flooded.
That is what this reflection is really about. It is not Hercules of Fame. It’s about the power of listening to those internal pushes, the “what if we all feel and reject too often.
Because the truth is: “What if …”, the film that I made 15 years ago with a then small director named Dallas Jenkins, was born from the same kind of push. A new one. A deeper.
Kevin Sorbo played in “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.”
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After years of success I started to feel a shift that I could no longer ignore. Believe me, I tried it for years. Still, I wanted to be deep inside that my work would not only reflect action, but also conviction. To trust. Heap. Something eternal. And that desire, in the beginning, became louder.
But it followed my feeling like a child who led me to Hercules, which gave me the proof of trusting the itching. And it led me to a small script from a man named Dallas Jenkins. The story? A man is shown the life he could have had if he had made different choices. Think of contemporary: “It’s a great life. “
We have made “what if …” with a non-so-herculean budget and a powerful load of heart. We had no idea what it would be. And now, 15 years later, we both call it our favorite film we have ever made.
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Since then, Dallas has of course been made ‘The Chosen’, a global phenomenon and one of the most successful series of faith of all time. But before, before “the chosen“ Once exist, there was “what if …”
Jonathan Roumie plays the lead role in Dallas Jenkins ‘The Chosen’. (Thanks to “The Chosen”)
“What if” Dallas had ignored his push? “What if” he had played it safely and never made the first faith -based film? What if I had forgotten mine?
That film marked a new chapter in my life. It was my first faith -based role, and it remains the one I am most proud of, not because of what it did for my career, but because of what it does for others. I still hear from people who are moved by the message. A memory that it is never too late to change course, to say yes to the life you had to live.
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People are hungry for meaning. For second chances. For belief that they lead them somewhere past the noise.
I don’t accept my career as a matter of course. I know it is a gift and responsibility. But I also know that it is not the spotlight who matters, it is the voice and calling inside.
Kevin Sorbo is the author of ‘The Bear Essentials of Fatherhood’, a children’s title by publisher Brave Books that promote the value of Dads and Masculinity. (Brave Books)
We all get pushes. Some are quiet, some are disturbing. Some go to another job, a challenging conversation, a new beginning. The question is: shall we listen? Or shall we spend our last days with questions, what if I had that?
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You will notice that you say: “What if I hadn’t done ______? I am so happy that I did that.”
Instead of: “What if I had only done ______? I wish I had that.”
Like someone who did – I can tell you: I’m glad I did.
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