Nazareth sophomore Kiley Roache joined the press greeting on Thurs., Sept. 15 to meet and interview Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Roache came by this amazing opportunity through her position as a student columnist on The Doings newspaper, which caters to the Western suburbs of Chicago. In her column, Roache is able to write about a multitude of subjects, similar to a blog. Roache thought that she would be able to provide good perspective on a religious movie as a girl from a Catholic school. Therefore, The Doings set her up with the prescreening and interview. Roache went to a prescreening of The Way, written and directed by Estevez and starring Sheen. After joining the press at the press greeting, Kiley, along with two other journalists, was invited to the round table to conduct a more personal interview with Sheen and Estevez.

While Roache waited for her turn to interview the stars, she ran into Sheen in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton hotel in Chicago, where the interviews were being held. Roache described the encounter as “really cool” when explaining that Sheen remembered that she was a Nazareth student. Roache was wearing her uniform skirt, but nothing with the Nazareth insignia visible on it. When Sheen saw Kiley, she approached him and said, “I’m actually going to interview you today,” and he responded, “Oh, right. You’re the girl from Nazareth!

Roache was happy to be interviewed and asked about her experience, “It was really cool that he knew what school I was from and it made me even more proud to be representing Naz!” Roache learned a lot from the experience and will definitely remember it for years to come.

During her interview at the round table, Sheen and Estevez gave her advice on peer pressure.

“When you go against what society wants you to do,” said Roache, “you become your own person. Acceptance is not about conforming to society, but rather it is about discovering and becoming yourself. If there is one comment that should stick with everyone, whether fourteen or forty, it would have to be, ‘you don’t choose a life. You live a life.’”