David Marchese

But was your gift for acting and the career that you've had, do you feel like any sort of message was being delivered through that? Or was acting totally, you know, did it turn out that it was totally separate from the... No, I wouldn't say it's either or.

Do you think there might come a time when you move to speaking mostly through ministry and not through acting? I don't know. I don't know. And, you know, this is just a bit of a shot in the dark that it's based on just some reading I was doing that I think, you know, sparked some connections for me. But I was just reading a book by James Baldwin called The Devil Finds Work.

Do you think there might come a time when you move to speaking mostly through ministry and not through acting? I don't know. I don't know. And, you know, this is just a bit of a shot in the dark that it's based on just some reading I was doing that I think, you know, sparked some connections for me. But I was just reading a book by James Baldwin called The Devil Finds Work.

And in there, he makes connections between the church and theater. Does that comparison ring true for you? Do you see similarities between the church and theater? Yeah.

And in there, he makes connections between the church and theater. Does that comparison ring true for you? Do you see similarities between the church and theater? Yeah.

He says, you know, both are about people sort of experiencing an event together, communally creating the event as it happens, when all these people are together in the moment experiencing the same thing. It sounds like James Baldwin is saying there is an energy and, you know, sort of a spirit that is created that for him was sort of similar between the church and the theater. I can agree with that.

He says, you know, both are about people sort of experiencing an event together, communally creating the event as it happens, when all these people are together in the moment experiencing the same thing. It sounds like James Baldwin is saying there is an energy and, you know, sort of a spirit that is created that for him was sort of similar between the church and the theater. I can agree with that.

I agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. The reason, of course, I ask about theater is because you're going back to the theater to do Othello. Can you tell me about the rewards for you of doing Shakespeare?

I agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. The reason, of course, I ask about theater is because you're going back to the theater to do Othello. Can you tell me about the rewards for you of doing Shakespeare?

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.