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Manuel Cauchi is opening up about his new role in a docudrama exploring the lives of the saints by award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
“This role required a leap of faith, yes; perhaps a great one, in hindsight,” the 70-year-old Maltese actor, who appears in an upcoming episode about St. Moses the Black in “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” told Our Sunday Visitor in emailed comments. “Faith that I would be able to forget my own being and immerse myself into another being to be able to find and express those salient points that hopefully make the character remarkable.”
In the episode, which premieres on Fox Nation April 11, Cauchi plays Isidore, the abbot of a remote desert monastery in 4th-century Egypt who offers refuge to Moses, an Ethiopian man with a troubled past. Isidore and his community of ascetic monks inspire Moses to renounce his former life as the leader of a violent band of outlaws engaged in prostitution. Moses joins the monks and dedicates his life to God.
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“This role required a leap of faith, yes; perhaps a great one, in hindsight,” the 70-year-old Maltese actor, who appears in an upcoming episode about St. Moses the Black in “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” told Our Sunday Visitor in emailed comments. “Faith that I would be able to forget my own being and immerse myself into another being to be able to find and express those salient points that hopefully make the character remarkable.”
In the episode, which premieres on Fox Nation April 11, Cauchi plays Isidore, the abbot of a remote desert monastery in 4th-century Egypt who offers refuge to Moses, an Ethiopian man with a troubled past. Isidore and his community of ascetic monks inspire Moses to renounce his former life as the leader of a violent band of outlaws engaged in prostitution. Moses joins the monks and dedicates his life to God.
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Martin Scorsese's 'Saints' actor talks about role in new episode
Manuel Cauchi stars in Martin Scorsese’s docudrama "Saints," portraying Abbot Isidore in the story of St. Moses the Black.
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