![]() “It was a networking process to find our way into smaller, secluded worlds that don’t have agents pitching them every day.” “It’s a challenge to find a large enough group you can pull from over and over again, but so far we’ve been incredibly lucky in finding our way, whether it was through Native American consultants or actual people who worked on the show,” says Papsidera. They also cast locally and sourced extensively for other Native American parts, even though the community is historically underserved by acting schools and in Hollywood, Papsidera notes. And I think they operate in a respectful way.” “There’s a particular and specific connection that the Native people have with the land versus the legacy that John Dutton wants to split the land. “I think there’s a deep respect too, because they both want the land,” Birmingham says. ![]() But Birmingham also built an important on-set relationship with Costner, each of whom mirrors the other’s determination and pride about their respective lands. That was boosted when Mo Brings Plenty, who grew up on a reservation in South Dakota and is a cattle rancher, signed on to play Mo, Rainwater’s confidant and enforcer. Working with Sheridan before meant Birmingham “had a lot of trust” in the care and authenticity of the project. So it’s basically learning how the colonists operate and using their own rules, using their own laws, and trying to benefit from that.” “The spirit of the culture would be to protect at all costs, but Thomas Rainwater has learned enough that-that’ll just get us decimated. “The fact that he’s developed a character that’s empowered and contemporary was very satisfying,” Birmingham says. He was particularly drawn to the show’s present-day telling of a Native story rather than the historical timepieces we often see. And I think that’s how it’s become what it has.”īirmingham recalls being “ecstatic” about Rainwater after reading the pilot. And then also pushing us and making us take risks together. ![]() From that point on, he started really penning it more and really giving us more to do and giving us more opportunity. And I looked at them and they just all looked up, like, a ‘Wow, that was amazing’ kind of feeling. “I remember walking out of that scene and everybody was just kind of glued to the monitors, and I saw John and Taylor and the producers and the D.P. “Initially there was a scene where we were having sex in her bedroom on the dresser, and she slaps me, and the way I reacted,” Hauser recalls. Hauser says Sheridan saw that spark onscreen and fleshed it out. It’s a very unselfish relationship where we both just love working together.” “You know, it’s rare that you find an actress-and she’s commented about it too in interviews-where I’m free to do as I please, and she follows my lead sometimes, and sometimes it’s vice versa and I’ll follow hers. “We were just very free together,” Hauser says of working with Reilly. Onscreen, the two are a product of a lucky confluence.
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