121: “Unplanned” Heroine and Star—Abby Johnson and Ashley Bratcher
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🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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I was going to title this episode The Two Abbys, but that would have led to misunderstandings. It’s a two-hander featuring actress Ashley Bratcher and the woman she plays in the movie Unplanned, former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson.
Unplanned came out after Gosnell and before Roe v Wade, the trio of strongly pro-life films of 2018 and 2019. Both the real life heroine Abby and the actress who brings her story to the screen thanks to co-writers Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman. An amazing story, now in cinematic garb.
In this episode you will learn
- How the book came about to begin with
- Why Hollywood’s MPAA gave it a Rated R rating and why this may help the movie’s box office
- The secret that the mother of actress Ashley Bratcher’s confessed to her after she got the role and had begin filming
- Why this is the kind of movie that changes the game regarding the reality of abortion
- Anecdotes galore from the set
Resources mentioned in this episode
- Movie Unplanned
- Book Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line by Abby Johnson
- Movie Gosnell: America's Biggest Serial Killer
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 121 of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:04.0 | Look, let's stop wasting time. |
| 0:06.0 | Let's stop letting the world deteriorate around us. |
| 0:08.0 | Let's get back to true family values, to true liberty, to true freedom. |
| 0:12.0 | Please listen to the Patrick Coffin Show. It's more than just |
| 0:15.6 | a show. It's a revolution. Welcome to the Patrick Coffin Show. So glad you're |
| 0:19.6 | hanging out. We have a first here. This is a two-hander interview but not split screen. So no |
| 0:24.2 | cross-talk, no problems. We're going to talk with Abby Johnson who wrote the |
| 0:29.9 | 2014 best-selling book Unplanned. I know Abby |
| 0:33.2 | interviewed a bunch of times most recently at the March for Life in |
| 0:37.1 | San Francisco and I saw her last week at the Hollywood premiere of the movie |
| 0:40.8 | version of Unplanned. |
| 0:43.0 | So Abby is our second interview and we'll start with the actress who placed her in the film, |
| 0:47.0 | actress Ashley Bratcher. |
| 0:48.0 | Coming up on the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:50.0 | Touching that dial is strictly prohibited. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm glad to have your board. |
| 0:58.8 | Ashley Bratchi grew up in a small town in North Carolina and |
| 1:05.0 | discovered a love of the theater in high school. She started in Princess Cut, 90 minutes |
| 1:09.9 | in heaven and is now playing former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson in the upcoming |
| 1:14.1 | biopick unplanned. |
| 1:16.1 | Ashley, thanks for coming on. |
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