I had a stepson who died of a drug overdose, and they found it too difficult to put into the movie. And I wanted that to come out in the documentary, as it was such a challenging time when Wayne died of a drug overdose, a mixed-up cocktail of different drugs. I needed to show this. Sure, we had many ambushes and had to return fire like it showed. And my early days in Florida were far worse than they showed. I was a bad boy — the scum of the earth!
I used to stutter every second word, so I could not argue. I would just fight. I had no problem taking to someone with a ball bat and beating the living you-know-what out of them. I had to look cool in front of the chicks. The part that showed me going back to the bar and getting drunk, and my wife Lynn picking me up from the police station, is not true. I have not had a drink in 23 years. When you sell your life rights to Hollywood, some things change.
You lose control of a lot of things, but like I said, Marc Forster did a good job. Jason interviewed a lot of my rescued children. I even took them to many locations where we fought the LRA. A lot of what you saw in the movie was how the children at the orphanage in South Sudan described the stories, and not me. Filmmaker: I take it that the royalties you received for your book and the subsequent Hollywood movie went directly back to your projects in Sudan.
Were you able to expand your mission in Africa as a result? Childers: Most of the book moneys went to projects in South Sudan and Uganda, yes. It helped a lot in those early days. It was tough — I mean really, really tough. There was just no money, and we had to scrimp all the time. We did build some new dorms and many other things, put in wells and a new cookhouse. And the movie — I still have not been paid for that yet. Hopefully they will pay me shortly. But that simply was just not the case.
What the movie did was give me a platform to speak from. But it would be nice to be paid! At the moment we have six projects that are happening. We take care of around children, and that goes up and down per month. Most children have lost all their families as a direct result of conflict, mostly war. I started in with only a mosquito net in a tree and an AK strapped to my back.
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In the last few months. But you know, you always get people talking. We have a free country. People say what they want to say. Do you know the most money that's been offered?
SC: No, I don't, and I don't really desire to know. I tell people, if you want to be a coward and take me from the back, go ahead. If you want to be a man, meet me from the front. For "Machine Gun Preacher," what was the hardest question Gerard asked you about your experiences? SC: I believe the things that bother me the most that I have to tell is not of the children that were rescued; it was the children that were left behind.
Or it was the children that I've seen that you couldn't rescue. That were already dead or already starved or blown up. In south Sudan many years ago it was nothing to come across the body of a child or the body of a grown-up that stepped on a land mine. That's probably the hardest thing that I'd ever have to explain to anyone, is actually the children that we could not rescue.
Jason, how anxious were you going into that setting? Not many people traveling for a job need kidnapping and dismemberment insurance. JK: I remember telling my wife—I don't know how that slipped, or she saw an email or something. She was sort of, "Really? This is for real? You're going to Sudan? Because at the end of the day although we crossed over into Sudan and we spent a couple weeks at the orphanage, although there wasn't immediate fighting in that area there had been fighting not too long before we had been there.
So there wasn't any battles happening right around us but the threat was always there. It was nerve-wracking. What was going through your head that first moment? And we would travel in convoys because as I learned over there it's safety in numbers. So we would be in three or four trucks at a time. So intellectually I knew we were probably safe. But you can't drive down a road and see the burned-out husk of a car or a tank that's been burned out, the remnants of war, and look in your rearview mirror and see 12 SPLA soldiers with AKs hanging out the back, you can't experience those things and not feel great trepidation.
I knew I was safe, but it's an intense place to travel to.
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