TIM ROBBINS SEEKS PEACEFUL SOLUTION

Tim Robbins plays the colonel in the South African Police Security Branch who tortured and humiliated the real prisoner Patrick Chamusso in Catch A Fire. Years later after his release Chamusso once saw his captor at a gas station and didn’t feel any feelings of revenge, only forgiveness. Tim says Chamusso is a model to live by when seeking peaceful solutions in times of adversity.

Catch A Fire opens tomorrow in theaters.rn

“If we can all aspire to half of that, what he was able to achieve in his life. To overcome what he’s overcome. You always hope that were things to go bad, if you were to have an experience like that, one hopes that they would have the generosity of spirit, the ability to forgive, the ability to move forward in a positive way. One would hope to aspire to that.”