ladies congratulations on the film thank you thank you um i have to be honest there's only
one place to start and that's to talk about the dog the only place there's no only place
to start it's a dog the predator and all that kind of stuff it's that wonderful wonderful dog
he's the star right well she's the star she her name is coco she's definitely the star
um it's funny because she is she much like dakota beavers is a talent that is discovered in this
film um both of them their first movie both of them fantastic dakota much more prepared to be
at work coco much less prepared to be at work um she was like so much energy and you know it
was like she would come in and you'd be like all right here we go we're gonna do the thing
and action and she'd just like run and you're like okay cut and that was much of what it was
like to have coco around she was just like a lot of energy did not always do what she wanted but
we she got adopted literally just for our movie um because she was the most accurate breed and so
they had she only had like two months of training to do this so it's not like a normal movie dog
where you're like okay she's been training for years and years and this is what she does it was
kind of backwards um but i mean obviously like you would never be able to tell watching it like she's
a great actor this is her face i love her little face or her big face she's a big face yeah i think
there's a lot of people in love with her from the trailer i think yeah seem to go down quite
well in the trailer yeah she's also just like very she was very cute in person and like very
sweet and like playful and snuggly and then you know you get going and it worked out though yeah
and Jhane for you as a producer i mean there's so many reasons to get involved with this but
when Dan Tractenberg presented you with his idea and what he wanted to do in the world he wanted to bring and
the people he wanted to bring into it it must have been an amazing read but also got you very
excited to to bring all this stuff to life i was just here for the dog obviously i was like
if there's a dog in it i don't want to be no but being a producer and native and also i am comanche
i'm an enrolled member of the comanche nation but i'm also blackfeet as well it was incredible
because the first time i saw the script across the top it said all dialogue in comanche and i was
like what and that's how it was originally pitched to the studio so um the fact that it comes out in
on streaming is just like an extra little thing because if you were in the movie you would only be
able to watch it in one language right but because it's streaming we have a full comanche dub and
that's really important that's never been done for my my tribe my language you know for the comanche
people and it's never been done for uh native people there's never been a brand new release
all in a native language so this film i could tell by the script that it was shifting the paradigm
that hollywood has created around native people in native culture and i knew that uh when i read that
but i it was never to the extent that i got to live through most of the time when i'm hired for
content i get to do like maybe a project has 20 to 25 percent native content this project had 110
so it's incredible it makes me i mean it just makes my life that's fantastic and i'm a few
i mean this role there's so much going on was there a facet of it that you enjoyed the most
was a facet you enjoyed the least because there's a thing there where people actually go as a social
thing and go ax throwing which is a big deal now i think it will go to you was there a thing you
enjoyed more than others that's funny because i actually did um buy my dad a set of throwing
axes for father's day like well before this movie before i knew about this role just like for fun
because that's what we do as a family uh and then i saw this and i was like hey i get to i've been
practicing um but i mean no i get everything i really enjoyed i mean you know i think i've
done some action before but it's very different than this this is very different style of you
know fighting or just physicality in a movie whether that was the narrative kind or the more
action-based kind um i think honestly it was i had a really great time like being in the comanche
camp and like doing shooting all those scenes and um getting to learn about comanche culture because
i also come from a plains tribe so getting to like learn the similarities and and the differences and
stuff like that and just having the environment of like we were shooting on stony dakota land uh
we were shooting on estonian dakota reserve and i'm shahia nakota so you know they're related and
that to me was really cool to have that experience and and work with like a primarily indigenous
cast because i've never had that before so just kind of a different level of like comfort and
you know there's things that you can just feel at ease about or that you can talk about that you
don't normally talk about or stuff like that so i think that experience to me was definitely like
textured it differently fantastic i wish you all the best with the movie ladies thank you
so much for your time thank you pleasure thank you great to meet you you as well ladies and gentlemen
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