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In an interview with Variety, his son Scott shared a glimpse into Stevenson’s self-awareness and humor about his career. Because he frequently portrayed clergy or officiants, Stevenson would joke that his job was simply “marrying or burying people.”
“As he told it, the panic-stricken director would invariably come to him to beg him to find a way to fill in unscripted space between ‘We are gathered here together’ (where he’d probably get his close-up) and the ‘amen’ at the end of the scene (where he usually wouldn’t).”
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