Community Corner
Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen Promote New Movie at AMC Rosedale
As part of a cross-country bus tour to promote their new movie, "The Way," the duo stopped in Roseville Tuesday.
After Martin Sheen’s two-story head faded from the screen, replaced by credits, the packed theater shifted its collective attention to stage right where the real Martin Sheen--clad in jeans and sweater, smaller than his electronic projection but no less luminous--approached the podium, beaming at the audience, waving and smiling and gesturing, as if to reciprocate the one-sided friendship of fame.
He was accompanied by his son Emilio Estevez, who directed and co-starred in the film.
“We will take any questions that you have as long as they’re reasonable,” Sheen said.
The AMC Rosedale was the 11th stop on Sheen and Estevez’s cross-country bus tour, which also , to promote “The Way,” which opens nationwide Oct. 21.
In the movie, Sheen plays a doctor who decides to hike across Spain on the Camino de Santiago (also known as The Way of St. James) after his son, played by Estevez, dies trying to complete the walk.
Carolyn Serrano, of Minneapolis, watched with four friends she made while hiking the last 100 kilometers of the Camino in 2010. During the Q & A session with Sheen after the movie, he asked if anyone had walked the trail, and the five friends raised their hands.
“There was a concern that the movie would be more Hollywood and not true to the experience, but it wasn’t,” Serrano said.
Rob and Colleen Paavola, of Little Canada, said they usually go to Oakdale to watch movies, but they got free tickets through the Pioneer Press and liked the Sheen and Estevez pictures Apocalypse Now and The Mighty Ducks.
“It probably can’t be a bad film with those two in it,” Colleen Paavola said.
During the Q & A, Estevez said when they decided to do a bus tour, he knew he wanted to come through the Twin Cities.
“I’ve shot four pictures here,” he said, “and I have a lot of fondness for the city and the area.”
