Presidents Clinton and Bartlet Watch 'The Way' Together

Last evening, a properly-to-do crowd of generous NYers loved an uncommon chance to spend time with two presidents from the U . s . States: Bill Clinton and Josiah Bartlet. The occasion would be a charitable organisation screening of 'The Way,' starring Martin Sheen -- who performed Bartlet on 'The West Wing' from 1999 to 2006 -- and directed by Sheen's boy Emilio Estevez. Clinton, who had been there to aid the evening's beneficiary, The Walkabout Foundation, went of his method to thank "my pal Martin Sheen, who after i left the Whitened House grew to become my leader." (This is a George Rose bush joke, for individuals playing in your own home.) "I attempt to exhibit the right deference." 'The Way' follows your way of the surviving father (Sheen) across the Camino p Santiago, a medieval pilgrimage route from France to The country that each year draws in hundreds of 1000's of motivated people on the streets. It isn't the type of movie you'd make if box-office success were anywhere in your listing of focal points, but individuals that do register will love watching Sheen, who so notoriously trekked in to the heart of darkness in 'Apocalypse Now,' pursue the road of something similar to salvation, and also the Super 16 footage from the Camino is one thing humanity could be glad to own. As Estevez place it, after lamenting our chronilogical age of cynicism, "This can be a movie that invites you to definitely climb greater around the tree. The vista is much better, the fruit is more gratifying." Still, just like the movie regularly questions its characters' causes of taking their journey, a crowd member needs to request: Why get this to movie? The solution came throughout the publish-screening Q&A, when Estevez shared a household anecdote. A couple of in the past, Martin Sheen and the grand son Taylor Levi Estevez (Emilio's boy) walked the Camino, and on the way Taylor fell deeply in love with an motel-keeper's daughter, whom he continued to marry. Upon his return, Martin told Estevez, "You've lost a boy around the Camino, and when you need to see him you should look at creating a film there. Even though you are thinking about that, why not write that film that i can star in." Now everything made sense! But there have been other mysteries to ponder, too. Why Bill Clinton? Why the Walkabout Foundation, a really youthful organization whose very, very ambitious lengthy-term goal would be to supply electric wheelchairs to each of the 100 million people all over the world who require them? These solutions eventually emerged too. Walkabout was founded by brothers and sisters Luis and Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster, whose father, Rolando, roomed with Clinton throughout their newcomer year at Georgetown. Rolando can also be the one that forged an association with Estevez, after presenting themself with an plane to request what Estevez and the father have been doing creating a movie around the Camino. Once it emerged that Luis have been the very first person ever to create the pilgrimage inside a motorized wheel chair, the miracle began to occur. "We wouldn't be here tonight if Rolando hadn't taken that chance," Estevez observed. "Tonight is among the miracles." Click the link to give towards the Walkabout Foundation. [Photo: AP] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook