{"id":393117,"date":"2026-04-11T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:48:14","slug":"richard-schiff-if-jesus-was-alive-today-hed-point-to-martin-sheen-and-say-thats-what-i-was-talking-about-life-and-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393117\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Schiff: \u2018If Jesus was alive today he\u2019d point to Martin Sheen and say, \u201cThat\u2019s what I was talking about\u201d\u2019 | Life and style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Born in Maryland, Richard Schiff, 70, came to fame when he was cast in Steven Spielberg\u2019s 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park. From 1999 to 2006 he played Toby Ziegler in the TV drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/the-west-wing\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The West Wing<\/a>, receiving an Emmy for his performance. Other work includes the series The Good Doctor and Ballers, and the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. He stars in Copenhagen at Hampstead Theatre until 2 May. He is married with two children and lives in Montana and New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What is your greatest fear?<br \/>People finding out my greatest fear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Which living person do you most admire and why?<br \/>Martin Sheen, simply the kindest and most fun-loving person and serious activist I\u2019ve ever known. If Jesus was alive today he\u2019d point to Martin Sheen and say, \u201cThat\u2019s what I was talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?<br \/>My lack of foreign language skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What is the trait you most deplore in others?<br \/>Inability to listen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Describe yourself in three words<br \/>Quietly somewhat funny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What makes you unhappy?<br \/>When I fall into solipsism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What do you most dislike about your appearance?<br \/>The many coffee stains on my shirts, sweaters, suits, slacks and socks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Who would play you in the film of your life?<br \/>Jessie Buckley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What scares you about getting older?<br \/>Getting even older.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Who is your celebrity crush?<br \/>It was and is Diane Keaton. I worked with her once but had the good fortune to meet her later and we had a wonderful hour-long conversation about who knows what.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What is the worst thing anyone\u2019s ever said to you?<br \/>Hasn\u2019t happened yet, it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What was the last lie that you told?<br \/>I don\u2019t lie. That one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What is your guiltiest pleasure?<br \/>Bad movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">To whom would you most like to say sorry and why?<br \/>Both parents, I\u2019ll write the book someday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What or who is the greatest love of your life?<br \/>My wife, Sheila Kelley. We are more in love now than ever before and it shocks us both every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Have you ever said \u201cI love you\u201d without meaning it?<br \/>Yes, to Amy Adams. We had run into each other, we\u2019d worked together a couple of times and were friendly, we chatted for a bit and I said I had to leave and I blurted it out. I still don\u2019t know why except that\u2019s probably a clue as to why the world responds to her the way that they do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What keeps you awake at night?<br \/>Wondering why I can\u2019t sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Would you rather have more sex, money or fame?<br \/>Fame is overrated, so is money once you have enough to be comfortable, so by elimination \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What is the most important lesson life has taught you?<br \/>Showing up is at least 90% of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What happens when we die?<br \/>There are no more interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Born in Maryland, Richard Schiff, 70, came to fame when he was cast in Steven Spielberg\u2019s 1997 film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-393117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}