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Orange County, Calif.,
Democratic campaign
manager, he braced the
actor for some bad
news.
"He said, 'Now your
character is not going to
be Jewish,' as if I might
object," Malina recalled
with a laugh.
The plan is for Bailey
to be considered for a
presidential speechwrit-
ing job in the fictional
White House.
"Josh is the player
you always want to pick
for your team," Sorkin
told the Journal.
"There's never a false
note and he has world-
class comedy skills. And
everybody likes him in
the huddle. When you
have an opportunity to
cast Josh, you do."
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plays and dreaming of replacing
Matthew Broderick as Jewish pro-
tagonist Eugene Morris Jerome in
Biloxi Blues.
Closer to home, he starred in
plays at his Orthodox yeshiva,
Westchester Day School, and watched
his cousins perform with Jewish pal
Aaron Sorkin at Scarsdale High. His
favorite Sorkin role: Jesus in Godspell.
After Malina graduated from Yale
with a theater degree in 1988, it was
his mom who suggested he look up
Sorkin, by then a 28-year-old wun-
derkind taking the New York theater
scene by storm.
"It was the best advice I could have
received," said Malina, who soon
became a good friend and poker
buddy of Sorkin's.
He was surprised, however, when
the writer-producer asked him to audi-
tion for his Broadway play A Few
Good Men — and that he got the part.
"Within a year of graduating col-
lege, I had achieved my dream of act-
ing on Broadway," said Malina.
Sorkin later cast Malina as a Jewish
producer on his ABC series Sports
Night, writing him a juicy seder scene
and sequences in which his character
argued with a non-Jewish girlfriend.
When he recently cast Malina as
Will Bailey in The West Wing, as an
While the West Wing
production schedule is
hectic, Malina, a hus-
band and father of two,
Joshua Malina: makes time for Jewish
"I give because life.
that's how I
He attends L.A.'s
was raised." Conservative Temple
Beth Am and keeps
kosher, a mitzvah he
likes because "it reminds me, three
times a day, that I am Jewish."
When his father nudged him to give
more of his income to charity, he
complied — but not out of guilt.
"I give because that's how I was
raised," he said. "You don't achieve
this level oflifestyle without sharing it.
I'd feel guilty if I earned this kind of
money without sharing it," he said.
He also continues serving as a
celebrity spokesperson for the L.A.
federation and other groups and hopes
to participate in a Hollywood mission
to Israel.
"It's rare that I wish I were more
famous, because that's never been a
motivating factor for me," he said,
recalling that pro-Israel rally a year
and a half ago.
"But to support Israel, I do wish I
were a more recognizable face." ❑
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