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The Director of ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ Makes a Shocking Admission · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest in the new horror
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  Speaker 1: movie The Pope's Exorcists, directed by Julius Avery.
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  Speaker 2: Russell Crowe plays Father Gabriele Amort, the man who is
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  Speaker 2: the real life chief exorcist for the Vatican for more
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  Speaker 2: than thirty years. And you might think that making a
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  Speaker 2: film about exorcism would make a director deep dive into
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  Speaker 2: films from the past to tackle the subject, notably the
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  Speaker 2: legendary nineteen seventy three film The Exorcist, but Julius admits
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  Speaker 2: to Variety he's actually only seen parts of that film,
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  Speaker 2: adding I'm not a massive officionado of exorcist movies. I
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  Speaker 2: found this story interesting because this was a real job,
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  Speaker 2: but there is a cheap exorcist at the Vatican. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure how much I believe in all of this,
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  Speaker 2: but I do find it fascinating that science can only
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  Speaker 2: explain ninety eight percent of this stuff out there. There's
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  Speaker 2: two percent we cannot explain, and only two percent of
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  Speaker 2: possession cases are real. Even if it were zero point
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  Speaker 2: zero zero one percent, that would terrify me. The Pope's
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  Speaker 2: Exorcist is out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.