Paul Wuthrich: The Price of a Consecrated Life
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🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Actor Paul Wuthrich has played a variety of roles, many of them real people from Church history, some well-known and others with virtually unrecognizable names but from each of these roles, he’s learned about what it means to live on a consecrated life. On this week’s episode, he shares what he has learned through a part-time career in acting about submission and humbly seeking the will of God.
1:42- Portraying a Prophet in a Full Circle
8:49- A Career Shaped by Faith
12:25- Standing In The Savior’s Shoes
17:38- Handling Rejection
20:54- Memorizing Technique
24:58- Real People Vs. Fictional Characters
30:32- Learning Through a Role
37:04- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
“How many people are there out there just quietly sacrificing, doing the Lord’s work with no attention, no accolade but there’s just doing it because God wants them to do it and they know it’s the right thing to do? And I thought, ‘That’s the kind of person I want to be.’”
Links:
Raising the Bar movie- https://raisingthebarmovie.com
Witnesses Initiative- https://witnessesfilm.com
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| 0:00.0 | For anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the temple, Deseret Book presents a free magnify learning together event called Transform Your Temple Experience with Melinda Wilwright Brown, author of an Endowment of Love. |
| 0:16.0 | You're invited to gather with other like-minded friends to learn to think more expansively about the temple |
| 0:22.0 | so we can draw closer to Jesus Christ. The event date is May 6th at 7 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. |
| 0:29.8 | The in-person opportunity is sold out, but we invite any and all to join by Zoom. We don't |
| 0:35.5 | want anyone to miss out. That date again is May 6th. |
| 0:39.3 | Get the details, reserve your spot, or register for the Zoom at magnify the good.com |
| 0:45.3 | slash events. |
| 0:46.6 | Or you can find the link in our show notes. |
| 0:54.0 | In 2022, following his portrayal as Joseph Smith in the film Witnesses, Paul Wutherich was quoted in the Deseret News as saying, |
| 1:03.2 | it might not be trendy to have faith nowadays. I don't think it's popular to have faith, but it's a noble |
| 1:09.6 | thing to believe in something and to |
| 1:11.7 | commit to something higher than yourself. In the roles that he has taken and in the roles he |
| 1:16.9 | has turned down and even in the roles he wanted but didn't get, it is clear Paul Wethrich believes in |
| 1:23.5 | and is committed to something higher than himself. Paul Wethrich is a Utah-based actor known for starring roles in escape from Germany, |
| 1:32.7 | six days in August, witnesses, and Joseph Smith, American Prophet. |
| 1:37.9 | Paul has also been featured in many other films, including The Fighting Preacher and Love Kennedy. |
| 1:43.7 | After years spent working full-time |
| 1:45.7 | behind and in front of the camera, Paul has pivoted into a commercial real estate career, |
| 1:50.8 | but he still maintains a love for acting and the sharing of inspiring stories. He and his |
| 1:56.4 | wife are the parents of two young children, and he stars in T.C. Christensen's new film, |
| 2:02.1 | Raising the Bar, which opens in theaters this week. |
| 2:10.5 | This is All In, an LDS Living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean |
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