in preparing to do this role.One of the most important things for me was to just be authentic to who sister was.Um,
again when you're playing a real person,there are real people who know him and I didn't want anybody to see this and just say,well that's not cecil.So uh,
I got a chance to meet his wife victoria who was also just a fantastic person who basically,to me she's the female version of cecil with everything that she went through and now she's helping women in much the same way that he helped men and and talking to her.I was able to ask her a lot of questions.We jumped,
jumped on a zoom call and I just asked her just just how did he act when he wasn't around other people when he just with you and just sitting around and just having a conversation.She would tell me all of that.And she even gave me a link to where I could watch a documentary that the two of them did together and I watched them tell their story.So I'm sitting there just listening to the two of them tell their story.I have
two sermons that Cecil preached that I listened to.So I can just really here when he tells his own story,how he tells in in the the passion that's in his voice
and so just a combination of all those things and then talking to pastor Cliff and talking to art and talking to different people who knew him,
you kind of start to get who he is for as much as you can,having not met him
and then the rest of it,you know,I just told myself to just stay out of the way
and don't try to overdo it or under do it,
take what you learned
and,and just go with that.And so for me that's how,um,
I
kind of just take the approach of doing this role.But that was my preparation
and
they're saying that they can see him.
So
that's an honor for me.That's what you want to hear.Hopefully those who know him when they see it,they'll say the same thing.in preparing to do this role.One of the most important things for me was to just be authentic to who sister was.Um,
that's an honor for me.That's what you want to hear.Hopefully those who know him when they see it,they'll say the same thing.