'Goodfellas' Actor Ray Liotta Reveals 'Horrible Priest' Experience While Promoting New Christian Film 'The Identical' (TRAILER)

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'Goodfellas' and 'Field of Dreams' actor Ray Liotta talked about multiple topics in a recent interview including his horrible experience with a Catholic Priest.

"We did go to church, we were not raised in a strict home," said Liotta to the Christian Post, "We went to church every Sunday but we had a horrible priest. I was brought up Catholic and he was just scary, [church] was just so heavy and scary. [He] gave me this huge fear of death ... I'd definitely say I'm much more spiritual than religious."

The 59-year-old Newark, New Jersey native further expressed his previous experience going to Church as a child and how it currently affects his 15-year-old daughter Karsen today.

"We went to church as a kid and I did my first communion and was confirmed so I did all of that but we didn't pray before every meal or anything like that. I'm a work-in-progress but yet if I'm in a fix I'll pray ... if I'm feeling uncomfortable about something I'll say 'Our Father's' and 'Hail Marys' to this day," said Liotta.

"My daughter went to a Christian school [and] I was involved in a lot of [her schooling] and I think it goes back to [me] having that scary priest."

Liotta went on to talk about how his real life experience of being adopted, and how that mirrors the the life of the film's protagonist, Ryan Wade. He also said that his ex-wife, Michelle Grace, helped him discover who his birth mother was.

"At the end of [Oprah's] show ... there was this guy named Troy who was a locator and [my ex] called him without me knowing it and within a day he found out who my birth mother was ... the biggest thing that I got out of [our reunion] was 'Thank God I was adopted.'"

Liotta is best known for his roles as Henry Hill in 'Goodfellas' (1990), Shoeless Joe Jackson in the 'Field of Dreams' (1989) and as the voice of 1980's gangster Tommy Vercetti in 'Grand Theft Auto: Vice City' in 2002.

Now Liotta co-stars with Blake Rayne and Ashley Judd in the upcoming Christian film where Rayne's character searches for his real parents while possibly pursuing a career in ministry just like his adopted father Pastor Reece Wade (played by Liotta).

Liotta's film entitled 'The Identical' is slated to arrive in movie theaters on September 5.