David Marchese

That's a thing that I've heard actors say a fair bit, that there is an energy or a joy that comes from doing theatrical work. An immediacy. Yeah. And I'm wondering if you can help someone like me who has no experience acting understand sort of the emotional difference of performing in the different mediums. Yeah.

That's a thing that I've heard actors say a fair bit, that there is an energy or a joy that comes from doing theatrical work. An immediacy. Yeah. And I'm wondering if you can help someone like me who has no experience acting understand sort of the emotional difference of performing in the different mediums. Yeah.

I was wondering, you know, I also watched the commencement speech you gave at Penn. It was probably, I don't know, 10 years ago, something like that. And you talked to the students about the necessity of, you have to be willing to fail, which is another way of saying you have to be willing to take risks.

I was wondering, you know, I also watched the commencement speech you gave at Penn. It was probably, I don't know, 10 years ago, something like that. And you talked to the students about the necessity of, you have to be willing to fail, which is another way of saying you have to be willing to take risks.

And are there ways in which doing Othello or even just doing theater feels like a risk for you?

And are there ways in which doing Othello or even just doing theater feels like a risk for you?

Yeah, yeah. What has your experience been with the fires out there? Have they come near you?

Yeah, yeah. What has your experience been with the fires out there? Have they come near you?

I mean, it's going to change that city for decades.

I mean, it's going to change that city for decades.

Does it make you want to live somewhere else? What do you mean, live somewhere else? What do you mean, like run? Well, it's just the reality of the danger in California is, it's scary.

Does it make you want to live somewhere else? What do you mean, live somewhere else? What do you mean, like run? Well, it's just the reality of the danger in California is, it's scary.

Let me shift gears for a second. I want to ask you about family. Did having children change your perspective on the work at all?

Let me shift gears for a second. I want to ask you about family. Did having children change your perspective on the work at all?

A thing I'm always curious about with actors is, and just artists generally, is when they realize it is also a business and a money-making enterprise. And, you know, it's not just this pure thing where you follow your artistic bliss all the time. And it's sort of what you're describing a little bit. Like at some point you thought, well, I got to take money-making jobs.

A thing I'm always curious about with actors is, and just artists generally, is when they realize it is also a business and a money-making enterprise. And, you know, it's not just this pure thing where you follow your artistic bliss all the time. And it's sort of what you're describing a little bit. Like at some point you thought, well, I got to take money-making jobs.

Does that affect how you approach the work itself?

Does that affect how you approach the work itself?

But does it affect the work? Like, if you know that something is a money job, basically, do you go about doing that job any differently? If you're asking me, did I ever take a job for money?

But does it affect the work? Like, if you know that something is a money job, basically, do you go about doing that job any differently? If you're asking me, did I ever take a job for money?