In preparing to do this role.
One of the most important things for me was to just be authentic to who was
Again, when you play in 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 my season.
So 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 and she went through
and she's helping women in much the same way that he helped me in.
And in talking to her, I was able just ask her a lot of questions.
We just jumped on the Zoom call and I just asked her just just how do he act
when he wasn't around other people, when he's 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
I could watch a documentary that the two of them did together.
And I watched them tell their stories.
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 think is really here when he tells his own story.
How he tells them and how the passion is in his voice.
Yeah.
So just a combination of all those things.
And then talking to Pastor
Cliff and talking to Art and talking to different people who do him,
you kind of start to get who he is for as much as you can.
Having that met him
and then the rest of it, you know, I just told myself to just
stay out of the way and not try to overdo it, to do it.
Take what you've learned and and just go with that.
And so for me, that's how
I'm kind of just take the approach of doing this role.
But that was my preparation.
You know, they're saying that they can see him.
So that's an it for me.
That's what you want to hear.
Hopefully, those who know him, when they see it, they'll say the same thing.