Phil Schwadron
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everything we did all the families we spent time with were from our church i did teach sam woodward in acting for the camera in his 10th grade and i had him for the one semester for 10 years phil schwadron taught drama and directing for grades 9 through 11 at osha he was definitely serious he didn't crack jokes didn't laugh a lot as to my memory
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We came back for what would have been Sam's 11th grade year. And I said, who have I got this year? And my boss said, yeah, you're going to get them all back except one left the school. Who left the school? Sam Woodward left the school.
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It took me a couple of minutes as I watched the footage. It started to dawn on me, oh my God, that's the Sam I taught. Every kid in my acting for the camera class, it was film work. So I said, everybody pick your favorite movie and bring me a scene or a monologue from that film. And he said, I want to do something from the army. So I gave him Brad Pitt's speech in Inglourious Basterds.
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It weighs heavily on me. Did I introduce him to something that later on came back to haunt us all?
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We've had students who wound up professional actors, designers, you know, writers, the whole thing, musicians.