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Living, and he was saying my family has totally abandoned me. what am i going to do? he was looking for existential meaning. >> i have a question. i have a question. you were a priest before you took the role. you're not a priest now. was it the acting bug that changed -- that got you out of the priesthood >> no, i was a priest during the filming. nothing to do with the -- i made the decision -- i made it very public because i knew that's what i had to do. it was something i had thought about for a very very long time. i love all the years that i was in the priesthood and all of the many -- i ...

Important for so many years in this tiny little world of the mob world realized he was all alone and dying. the only one who he could talk to was this chaplain in assisted living, and he was saying my family has totally abandoned me. what am i going to do? he was looking for existential meaning. >> i have a question. i have a question. you were a priest before you took the role. you're not a priest now. was it the acting bug that changed -- that got you out of the priesthood >> no, i was a priest during the filming. nothing to do with the -- i made the decision -- i made it very public because...

And he got the bug. >> reporter: the acting bug. first as a body double back on the basketball court in the movie "inside moves" and then as a bartender in "cobb." >> congrats, al! four pieces in national magazines this month. >> reporter: when he met lisa, he was acting, but also waiting tables. >> he twinkled. he was just charming. i was thrilled that he asked me for my number. >> reporter: they married. had three sons together. and with a growing family to support, gavin gave up acting and took a job on the business side at twentieth century fox, eventually as a film distribution executive....

Picking up his kid ever. >> because gavin was so good at these things that his sister tara, he was so impressive. so tall. you both got the tall gene, right? >> we did. >> the whole family. >> the whole family. >> gavin was the tallest, 6'6." >> he waublgd in a room, you noticed him. you wanted to gravitate to him. he was a magnet. >> he played basketball for john wooden, ucla, 1975. he was a forward. it was wooden's final championship team. >> just to be on that team was pretty fantastic. it was a once in a lifetime. >> and then he drifted a bit. worked as a golf caddie and this being los ang...

Being los angeles and he a good-looking, towering athlete. people noticed him, movie people. >> they gave him a couple of roles. and he got the bug. >> reporter: the acting bug. first as a body double back on the basketball court in the movie "inside moves" and then as a bartender in "cobb." >> congrats, al! >> reporter: when he met lisa, he was acting, but also waiting tables. >> he twinkled. he was just charming. i was thrilled that he asked me for my number. >> reporter: they married. had three sons together. and with a growing family to support, gavin gave up acting and took a job on the b...