UNITED KINGDOM: Hollywood father and son team Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez attend UK premiere of their latest film "The Way"
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UNITED KINGDOM: Hollywood father and son team Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez attend UK premiere of their latest film "The Way"
- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Hollywood father and son team Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez attend UK premiere of their latest film "The Way"
- Date: 23rd February 2011
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 2011) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARTIN SHEEN, ACTOR, SAYING: "Why today? Because I think people are longing for transcendence, particularly in the West, you know. I think we seek to touch the sacred somehow you know I think that's why people use drugs and alcohol they're looking for some transcendent experience in their lives and the actual work of finding that transcendence is a journey inward and it's something-- it's very exciting and a very worthwhile journey, it's not always smooth." SHEEN AND ESTEVEZ TALKING TO MEDIA (2 SHOTS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARTIN SHEEN, ACTOR, SAYING: "With prayer. We lift him up and we ask everyone who cares about him to lift him up, and lift up all those who are in the grip of drug and alcohol abuse, because they are looking for transcendence." (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARTIN SHEEN AND EMILIO ESTEVEZ ON HOW THEY ARE SUPPORTING CHARLIE SHEEN, SAYING: (SHEEN): "With prayer." (ESTEVEZ): "Yeah, we're praying for him, yep." (SHEEN): "We lift him up and we ask everyone who cares about him to lift him up and lift up all of those who are in the grip of drug and alcohol abuse. Because they too are looking for transcendence." SHEEN AND ESTEVEZ BEING PHOTOGRAPHED (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARTIN SHEEN, ACTOR, ON WORKING TOGETHER WITH CHARLIE SHEEN AND EMILIO ESTEVEZ IN THE FUTURE, SAYING: "That would be another miracle and we'd look forward to that very much. So, yes." VARIOUS OF SHEEN AND ESTEVEZ BEING PHOTOGRAPHED AT (3 SHOTS) PHOTOGRAPHER TALKING TO SHEEN LIGHT SHEEN PHOTOGRAPHING ESTEVEZ (2 SHOTS) ESTEVEZ PHOTOGRAPHING SHEEN
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- Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Country: United Kingdom
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- Story Text: Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez talk about praying for son and brother, troubled actor Charlie Sheen, at the UK Premiere of "The Way".
Hollywood veteran Martin Sheen was joined by his son, Emilio Estevez, in London for the UK Premiere of their latest project together, "The Way," on Monday (February 21).
Playing father and son on-screen, Estevez also directs Sheen in the film as a grieving parent who travels to the French Pyrenees to collect the remains of his son, who has died on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in the north west of Spain.
The father decides to take up his son's journey, walking the the 500-mile pilgrimage route, known as The Way of St James, to the city's Cathedral.
Talking at the premiere, Estevez said the project was a deeply personal one that he had been trying to get off the ground with his father for several years.
"He was a great inspiration for this. He did a part of the Camino and came home and began talking about it with my son, who not only came home and talked about it as well but decided to move back and met a girl along the Camino, married her, and he's been living in Spain for eight years. But on his urging, on Martin's urging, he said let's go to Spain and make a film," he explained.
While the film may have been a personal experience for father and son, Sheen said the subject matter was something to which everyone could relate.
"Why today? Because I think people are longing for transcendence, particularly in the West, you know. I think we seek to touch the sacred somehow you know I think that's why people use drugs and alcohol they're looking for some transcendent experience in their live and the actual work of finding that transcendence is a journey inward and it's something-- it's very exciting and a very worthwhile journey, it's not always smooth,"
Sheen also spoke about his son at the premiere, "Two and a Half Men" actor Charlie Sheen who has fought a highly publicised battle with drugs.
The older Sheen said he and his family were supporting his son with prayer.
"We lift him up and we ask everyone who cares about him to lift him up and lift up all of those who are in the grip of drug and alcohol abuse. Because they too are looking for transcendence," Sheen said.
Sheen has worked with both Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen several times over the years and said that he hoped he would be able to work with them both together in the future.
"That would be another miracle and we'd look forward to it, very much. So, yes," he said.
"The Way" also stars James Nesbitt, Deborah Kara Unger, and Yorick van Wageningen.
It opens in UK cinemas on April 15. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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