David Henrie, best known for his role in “Wizards of Waverly Place,” revealed during a September podcast interview that he lost friends and jobs after committing to his faith.
During an appearance on the “Bryce Crawford Podcast,” Henrie was asked what his faith cost him in Hollywood.
“It was rough, lost my agents,” he said. “I walked away from a lot. I turned down a lot of roles. I was like I’m just not going to do something that I think will disrespect my belief now or disrespect our Lord. I’m just not going to do it. I’m not going to go near it. And it cost me a lot. It cost a lot. I lost a lot of money. Friends, a girlfriend at the time. I kind of was stripped of everyone, everyone that I would call a friend.”
However, Henrie added that he made new friends that challenged him, which eventually led to him meeting his wife.
“I found new friends,” he said. “I found guys I respected, guys I loved, that were building me up in Christ. You know, I think that friendship is like an elevator. It brings you up or it brings you down. So, I made new friends and I made friends that elevated me and that challenged me, gave me great books to read and helped form me in my faith and led to meeting my wife, my best friend now.”
Henrie said it had been a “great journey” and that some of the people he lost had come back into the picture.
“Some of those people who left have now come back into the picture,” he said. “They’ve gotten older. They’ve changed the way that they think. And I get texts from people like, ‘Hey, just want you to know I went to church this Sunday.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, no way.’ I didn’t, would have never thought this person would, that would happen. And yeah, it’s a marathon. It’s not a race.”
in January that the industry was now much more accepting of faith.
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“Now people are much more accepting about people of faith,” Henrie, who is a devout Catholic, told Fox News Digital, describing what he sees as a noticeable change from a decade ago. He said he regularly hears executives asking for “content for people of faith” because theyre “underrepresented” on screen.
Henries push for value-driven storytelling has become more personal since becoming a father, he said, shaping the kinds of projects he wants to champion and the kind of content he wants available for families like his.
“I really wanted to find a way to use everything Gods given me to tell stories on a bigger scale,” he said, explaining why he launched Novo Inspire Studios, a production company he describes as focused on “entertaining and elevating content.”
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Entrepreneur David Friedman, the head of Friedman Ventures, who has a Master’s degree in philosophical theology, told
