COLLIDER: I would love to hear the story of how you became linked up with1923.
Did you get a call from Taylor [Sheridan]?
What was the whole process that led to you joining the show?
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Then, maybe weeks later, one note came aboutonemomentone word, actually.
Can you just do something different with that one word?
We’ve been in touch ever since.
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The consensus in the Taylor community is that it’s a family, and you really feel it.
That was a nice taste of what that world could be like.
I can sign my papers whenever youre ready.
That’s how it all started.
Its a change from doing something more contemporary, including horseback riding.
Other actors I’ve spoken to for this show havementioned “cowboy camp.
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All of that was happening naturally.
Then I thought, Uh oh, I have to also know how to ride a horse.
I didn’t want to be thinking about, Am I doing it correctly?
Are my feet in the right spot?
So he said, Come out.
There was one day, one moment, one note when [Diane] decided I was ready.
Then, we were off and running, no pun intended.
But I realized how green I was.
What do I do?
She goes,Just squeeze him like a tube of toothpaste!
[Laughs] I did with everything I had, and we were off.
Now I feel ready.
Now I feel armored.
Of course, the costumes were incredible to put on.
They felt foreign to me, too, at first.
I thought, This is not how I pictured it at all.
So, it was learning the scenes, meeting the other actors, all of that good stuff.
I needed to know a couple of pieces of information.
One was that I was protected.
I think that [Mamie] pictured herself as a soldier for God’s creation in all forms.
There’s no distraction like we have with all of our devices.
It was truly like time travel.
I didn’t see a camera there were seven at the time.
You don’t know if you’re on or not.
So,I was as in the moment as I’ve been since I’ve been on stage.
That’s why I feel so reinvigorated as an actor.
I feel like I’m Tom Brady in his prime.
From then on, I was like, We are the noticers.
We are always taking inventory.
So, what do you do?
You get them to treat you first so then, they can experience your response.
They will expose themselves.
That’s where it all started.
Even in his most subtle moments, he is explosive.
[Laughs] I just think he’s incredible.
I went through every book.
I actually have all of her credentials here, framed.
They let me have them!There was nothing in the roombook, trophy, nothingthat was after 1923.
It was all up to 1923.
It was all authentic.
They have this book of wildflowers from the 1800s.
You weren’t taking photographs.
And all of that was right there in front of me.
It was just the same way that the exteriors felt so full and so alive.
You are getting to bounce off of more and more of the cast, especially in this episode.
There’s not a secondary character, even Spencer, that can come in and move her sights.
It’s all about these men that came and said that this is what was happening.
It was just about the clarity of the charge.
It just says so much about who Mamie is and the pop in of lawman she is.
“[Spencer’s] heard me say it: I’m not his parent.
I work for him as much as I work for the man sitting across the desk.
It’s almost like she doesn’t have a mono mind.
She has one charge.
She has one aim and one mission.
She’s so multifaceted in my mindmaybe the viewer would see her as a little flatter than this.
New episodes of1923Season 2 premiere Sundays on Paramount+.
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