Craig T. Nelson
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Fans of the Green Bay Packers are feeling very excited today, as the new movie Green and Gold is officially out!

Green And Gold

Craig T. Nelson, 80, stars in Green and Gold as “a struggling family farmer” named Buck who literally bets the farm. Meanwhile, “his granddaughter’s musical ambitions could be their ticket to a new beginning,” according to the movie’s official tagline.

Where do the Packers come in? Glad you asked! You see, Buck bets the farm on the basis of the Packers winning the Super Bowl.

Nelson recently opened up to CBN News about just how much playing Buck meant to him.

“He’s a fourth-generation farmer,” Nelson said of the character. “He’s trying to make sense of life in a situation where it looks like there’s no way out. He may lose what he’s held precious to him for so long, and he’s wounded by the death of a daughter, and he’s trying to raise a granddaughter in a tradition of a family that he’s trying to uphold, and he’s trying to find a faith that means something to him that he can, he doesn’t even have.”

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Playing Buck Was A Blessing For Nelson

Buck happens to be a Packers super-fan. In fact, he loves the team so much that he bets his entire farm in a high stakes game to save his land and legacy.

“He’s wounded and he’s in a situation in life that’s a crisis, and he is trying to find a way to manufacture, way to make it work,” Nelson explained. “And he’s not sure he is doing the right thing. So he’s a wonder and a mystery and complicated guy.”

Getting the chance to play Buck was nothing short of a blessing for Nelson, who himself is a Packers fan.

“The way it was written, and I think the landscape and the fact that generational farms are in my family, and I could identify with that – but I think the man’s (Buck), one of the main reasons was his walk, his faith walk,” he continued. “Sometimes you have to get to that point of brokenness and despair before you realize you need, when you realize that you’re powerless and you’re brought to that point, that’s when you’re perhaps more teachable than others.”

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A Love Letter To America

In another interview, Nelson described Green and Gold as being a love letter to America.

“We hear so much about what we’re losing and what we need to recapture. And it’s all there. It really is. It just needs a sounding board,” Nelson told Fox News. “There needs to be a resonance to it that we hear and listen to. And I think in witnessing the people, the farmers themselves, and shooting the film in Wisconsin and Door County and getting to know them and getting to know their families to a certain degree and what they go through, I think was not only reinvigorating, but it was certainly inspiring.”

In real life, Nelson is a huge Packers fan himself. Thanks to this movie, Nelson got to live out a dream of his earlier this month when he sang the national anthem at Lambeau Field on January 5. 

“I’m such a fan, you know, I really am,” he gushed. “And the players, dude, it’s unbelievable. I’m over on the sidelines and it’s cold… But you don’t feel it. It’s like the fans are, like, screaming, and they’re packed in, and it’s like, ‘My God, Lambeau Field.'”

Green and Gold is in theaters now. Whether you’re a Packers fan or not, be sure to check this movie out. You don’t want to miss this one!

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