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Perhaps no one was more surprised than Martin Sheen when he got the call to play General Robert E. Lee for the movie Gettysburg. “I thought I’d be the last guy,” says Sheen, chuckling. “And I’ve always suspected and I’m going to have to ask Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg director) to be straight with me someday and tell me who it was he offered the role to that turned it down at the last minute. Because I got the call at the last minute.”

Today, Sheen is one of the best remembered actors to take on the part of General Robert E. Lee. And nowhere was that more evident than when Sheen returned to Gettysburg last weekend, 30 years after the movie’s release as a participant in The Art of Ken Burns: 2024 Gettysburg Film Festival. Actor Sam Waterston was also a participant. Both actors along with Burns took part in a discussion on the “Lessons from Lincoln.” Waterston played Abraham Lincoln in the 1988 mini-series Lincoln and voiced Lincoln in Burns’s The Civil War documentary.

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