I played baseball for 10 years up until the time I was 18. I got bored with broadcast journalism my first semester at the Y so my second semester I started taking acting classes. Rick Macy: Broadcast journalism was my major at the “Y.” For some unknown reason I picked theater and film as my minor, but I had never acted before or even expressed interest in acting when I was growing up. What’s your background? How did you get into acting? You know, the first film I remember seeing you in was that Buttercream Gang movie you did back in the early 90’s. Jonathan Decker: Rick, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today. I recently had the great pleasure of visiting with Rick about his faith, his impressive career, the people who inspire him, and his theory on the true identity of the “Man in the Grey Tweed Suit.”

If you look closely, however, he pops up everywhere in church films: as the shepherd kneeling in reverent awe at the manger in Joy to the World, as the missionary who baptized Wilford Woodruff in A Search for Truth, and as the creditor representing the law of justice in The Mediator, for example.Ī prolific talent and a veteran of stage and screen, Rick has recently been seen staring down a firing squad in Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed, predicting the end of the world in The Last Man(s) on Earth (a brilliant comedic turn for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the Filmed in Utah Awards), and as the mysterious “Man in the Grey Tweed Suit” who steers Ephraim Hanks in the right direction in Ephraim’s Rescue (now in theaters). in films such as The Restoration, Emma Smith: My Story, and Joseph Smith: the Prophet of the Restoration. LDS movie-watchers know Rick Macy for his powerful performance in The Testaments as Helam (the Nephite father healed by the resurrected Christ) as well as his warm portrayal of Joseph Smith Sr.

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