Casey Elliott: Changed through Characters

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, it can be difficult to put ourselves in the shoes of the people we read about in Church history or in the scriptures. We live in such a different world today that their experiences can be hard for us to grasp. But stepping into others’ shoes is what Casey Elliott often does on stage, and the experience has changed him. From playing Joseph Smith in the upcoming film “Green Flake” to Peter in the concert film of the oratorio “Lamb of God,” Elliott captures the humanity of these people and brings them to life. In this week’s episode, we explore what this humanity means to Elliott and how his perception of history has deepened through acting.

“Creative ideas in a very real sense are bits of intelligence, bits of spiritual stuff that wasn’t created, it just is there and, as creatives, we have the immense blessing and opportunity to take that and to form it into an identity. And that identity, once formed, almost takes on a life of its own.”

Show Notes

2:54- “Resist Playing to the Icon”
9:18- Imperfect but Utilized
12:08- Being Present
15:07- “The Spirit of Christ is in the Music”
21:50- Putting Ourselves in Their Shoes
24:03- Peter, Our Brother
30:27- “Reaches My Reaching”
32:24- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

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0:00.0	This week, as I was preparing this episode, I listened to the audio book of my friends Emily
0:05.8	Belfremann and David Butler's new book, The Unexpected Deliverer.
0:10.8	They talk about the interaction between Peter and the Savior at the Sea of Tiberius.
0:16.1	You know, the one where the Savior asks Peter, do you love me?
0:20.2	Peter immediately replies in the affirmative and the Savior says, feed my sheep.
0:25.6	Only in David point out something I had never before considered.
0:29.8	They write, Peter was not a shepherd, he was a fisherman, he knew nothing about raising
0:35.5	lamps.
0:36.5	Perhaps that is why this very same challenge with Jesus happened two more times.
0:42.2	It was a new call, unexpected.
0:45.0	Three years ago, the task at hand had been to change a fisherman to a fisher of men,
0:50.6	to teach him to find, to gather, to count.
0:53.9	Now Jesus was calling Peter to become a shepherd, to feed his flock, to care, protect, and
1:00.1	love those who were brought in.
1:02.6	There is no record of Peter raising sheep before, but this was the work of Jesus, and now
1:07.9	it was what Peter would do in his name.
1:11.0	The past three years had changed everything.
1:13.7	The world would never be the same and neither would Peter.
1:17.1	He was no longer a fisherman, he would become a shepherd.
1:21.0	I love Peter so much, if there is one character from the scriptures outside of the Savior,
1:27.8	that this podcast has caused me to love more than I did previously, it would be Peter.
1:33.5	I love the way the gospel of Jesus Christ changed him, but also the way the Savior loved
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