Redeeming Love~An interview with Abigail Cowen and Nina Dobrev

Based on the bestselling novel by Francine Rivers, REDEEMING LOVE is a powerful story of relentless love and perseverance as a young couple’s relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. It is a life-changing story of the power of unconditional and all-consuming love. The Christian themed movie opens with the quote “All that glitters, is not gold,“ as a Gold Miner strikes it rich in the town of Pair-a-Dice, circa 1850. This quote sets the tone for the struggles the heroine, Angel (Abigail Cowen) endures throughout the movie. Angel was forced into prostitution as a girl, a victim of a human trafficking operation run by the antagonist Duke (Eric Dane). She ends up in her first brothel because her biological father doesn’t claim her and her mother (Nina Dobrev) ends up the victim of tragic events. Angel becomes the most popular and sought after sex worker in Pair-a-Dice, her time raffled off by the Duchess (Famke Janssen) to a frothing mob of men that gathers daily in fr