Peach Pachara stars in The Believers, which dropped on Netflix last March 27. The nine-episode series tells the tale of three young entrepreneurs who struggle to pay off their substantial debt to a loan shark after a failed gaming startup. They stumble into a so-called business opportunity that capitalizes on people's religious beliefs, with the narrative essentially delving into the complexities of faith and corruption within Thai Buddhism and encouraging viewers to question societal norms.
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00:00I just got a call from the director during COVID, during the lockdown period.
00:07He was like, I have this kind of, he just, he gave me a synopsis.
00:13And I was really hooked in.
00:15It's about Buddhism in Thailand and how corrupt it is.
00:19You know, it's, I mean, the religion by itself is not corrupted,
00:23but people who are running it are the ones that are corrupt.
00:27And we want to tell the stories about these people, you know,
00:31and we just want to make a film about how to make people questions,
00:37how to make things transparent.
00:39Because, you know, the director himself is a kind of very practitioner as well for Buddhism.
00:45So he went to the temple, you know, and he started raising a question.
00:49How can we make it more transparent?
00:52You know, how you donate money more transparent?
00:54How can people raise the questions that things should be as it is rather than being opaque?
01:05So after having listened to that, I was like, okay, let's do it.
01:10Because it's really, really good intention as well.
01:14So that's how the project started.
01:17Kind of good learning curve for me as well,
01:18because I see a lot of mechanics that I've never seen before in religion as well.
01:23How people donate and they get tax deduction,
01:27and then so they add the zero without actually paying for it.
01:31And nobody's really looking to it.
01:33You know, that's kind of mind-blowing as well.