The highly-anticipated film, which hit theaters on Tuesday, tells the true story of Dr. Omalu, a Nigerian-American forensic pathologist and devout Christian who discovered that concussions can lead to long-term psychological disorders.

Despite the pushback he received from the NFL, Dr. Omalu continued to expose the ugly truth behind such injuries.

"You're going to war with a corporation that owns a day of the week... the same day that Church used to own," Dr. Omalu's supervisor Dr. Cyril Wecht (Albert Brooks) tells him in the film.

In a recent interview with the Christian Post, Smith, who was raised in a Baptist home and attended a Catholic school for much of his young life, revealed that witnessing the faith of his grandmother prepared him for his latest role.

"My grandmother was really my connection to God," the 47-year-old actor said, "She was my spiritual teacher."

Smith went on to refer to his grandmother as "the most spiritually certain person that I had ever met in my life," and revealed that the biggest challenge in playing Dr. Omalu was trying to reconcile science and spirituality.

"With Bennet, the scientific part was the new addition," the actor said. "Because my grandmother wasn't a woman of science-she was a woman of the spirituality and the Bible."

As reported by the Gospel Herald, Dr. Omalu also opened up about the tremendous role spirituality played in the upcoming film: "[Smith] spent time with me and he was very observant. And, in fact, he had said what made him accept the role was meeting me," the doctor told the Christian Post. "The spiritual stuff is deep. We met, we shared and we communed the love of God, and he also saw the light. The spirit of God also..."

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