You might know Siobhan Fallon Hogan from just about everything. Whether it’s “Saturday Night Live,” “Forrest Gump,” “Seinfeld,” “Men in Black,” “Baby Mama,” or “Fever Pitch,” the actress is no stranger to the silver and small screens. Fallon Hogan told Fox News Digital that film buffs would’ve seen her in more roles had they only been more reflective of her strong Catholic faith.
She joked, “It cost me a fortune. But, that being said, I wouldn’t be able to sit with myself. You have to be able to look in the mirror at yourself, and you have to be able to sleep. And, like, who cares? It’s all so temporary. It doesn’t matter.” Fallon Hogan said she’s spent the entirety of her career turning down jobs that don’t jibe with her faith. But while the funny woman may not precisely be laughing all the way to the bank, she’s smiling to the theater.
For the first time in her decades-spanning career, Fallon Hogan will have written, produced, starred in, and distributed her own feature-length film. And, because she knows God helped her make it, there’s no doubt it sits especially well with her. The sleep? Well, as a writer/producer/lead/distributor hybrid role, that’s probably lost. “I’m lying in bed, and this idea comes to me,” Fallon Hogan said of first conceiving “Shelter in Solitude.”
The actress continued, “It’s like having a dream, you’re like, ‘I better write this down.’ And I literally wrote it all in three weeks. I’m telling you, it flowed out of me. There are people who say, ‘This had nothing to do with me,’ and I really feel that. Because I feel it has a message for this time, where God must be so sad because we’ve gotten so off the mark.”
Produced by Emerald Caz, the independent company Fallon Hogan started alongside her husband and children, “Shelter in Solitude” is an American, faith-filled, country western prison love story told during COVID times. The story centers around a wannabe country singer, Val (played by Siobhan Fallon Hogan) and her unconventional relationship with death row prisoner Jackson Marcus (played by Peter Macon). Having been picked up by AMC, Regal, and more, the film saw a wide theatrical release on October 6.
The film also stars award-winning actor Robert Patrick, who Fallon Hogan said always wanted to do a faith-filled film. “But they’re always… the people you can’t relate to.” That’s what called Fallon Hogan to make one relatable for audiences everywhere, her second co-starring with the actor [after her 2021 film, “Rushed”]. And while Patrick happens to be a fellow devout Christian, the actress said she doesn’t exclusively look to work with those who share in her faith.
For Fallon Hogan, her faith is even louder than her actions. “My cinematographer and my editor, who are atheists, I say to them, ‘What are the chances we’d be picked up by AMC and Regal? There’s only one reason, and that’s God. And I’m telling you that’s the truth.’ And they’re like, ‘OK, if that’s what you think!’ And I’m like, ‘No, that’s what I know.'”