From a fresh-faced Jay Leno in HBO’s “The Late Shift” to an explosive exit on the hit show “Lost,” Lehigh Valley native Danny Roebuck’s career spans 40 years.<\/p>\n
“What do you feel when you have one of your movies open?” 69 News reporter Bo Koltnow asked him.<\/p>\n
“Extraordinary. I was just saying to my wife, how many of these do I have left,” Roebuck said.<\/p>\n
In his latest comedy, “The Hail Mary,” now playing nationwide including at Northampton Borough’s The Roxy, Roebuck plays an angry loner in need of redemption. Atonement arrives from a nun, conning him into creating a football team for her Catholic school; it was filmed at Bethlehem Catholic High School.<\/p>\n
“It’s got a double entendre, because you think it’s about the last play of a game, but really it’s about the guy. It’s his last chance. The poster says, when you have nothing else to lose, that’s him. He’s at the bottom,” he said.<\/p>\n
Roebuck has made a career of boosting local talent.<\/p>\n
From “The Hail Mary,” “Getting Grace,” “Lucky Louie,” and “Saint Nick,” Roebuck\u2019s films make sure the Lehigh Valley and those in it play a starring role.<\/p>\n
For Bethlehem-based actress Madelyn Dundon, Roebuck’s 2017 film, “Getting Grace,” was not only her first starring role but her first film.<\/p>\n
“As a senior in high school coming out of that time, that confidence boost and the platform, to feel at that age like, ‘Oh, I’m a professional actor now,'” Dundon said.<\/p>\n
The soon-to-be 27-year-old has been in three Roebuck films and is a steady working actor, currently starring in “Hazel’s Heart” on Apple TV. She traces her success to her first role with Roebuck. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“He’s been continuing to do that for other young people, championing them, giving them opportunities, which you’ll see in ‘The Hail Mary,'” she said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
As for Roebuck, he’s far from his final career “Hail Mary,” instead continuing to make the Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania’s version of Hollywood. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“My movies aren’t just set here. They’re about here. They’re about people and the stories, even fictional. We’re still portraying the people of the valley in such a positive way,” Roebuck said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a fresh-faced Jay Leno in HBO’s “The Late Shift” to an explosive exit on the hit show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8982,58927,119,121,120,153,7433,21612,58926,58931,58271,30184,5538,58930,6560,157,58932,30183,16465,56307,58929,58928,41689],"class_list":{"0":"post-125963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-actress","10":"tag-allentown","11":"tag-allentown-headlines","12":"tag-allentown-news","13":"tag-bethlehem","14":"tag-bethlehem-catholic-high-school","15":"tag-bo-koltnow","16":"tag-danny-roebuck","17":"tag-getting-grace","18":"tag-hail-mary","19":"tag-hazel","20":"tag-hbo","21":"tag-jay-leno","22":"tag-lehigh","23":"tag-lehigh-valley","24":"tag-lucky-louie","25":"tag-madelyn-dundon","26":"tag-news-reporter","27":"tag-northampton-borough","28":"tag-professional-actor","29":"tag-saint-nick","30":"tag-the-hail-mary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}