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- We have nothing to offer you, sir,
be gone!
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- Action.
- In that time period,
bandits were everywhere.
And if they see easy pickings,
easy prey,
if you know they don't see the men around to protect,
they just go in and take what they want.
- Be gone.
- Our camp is a attacked by bandits.
It's devastating.
It was hard for all of us to make it through
that scene because it was really physical.
(people yelling)
Mary Abel get shot and she gets killed and she dies.
And it was just gut wrenching
and just rips your heart out.
- Shea, I don't think he had much regard for outlaws
and certainly not for killers.
I think he thinks probably
the fewer of 'em the better.
These guys came in and killed some
of his immigrants and he felt bound
to dispense some sort of justice.
- Working with Billy Bob Thornton in Fort Worth,
he comes in he's this easygoing guy,
he's kind of unassuming.
We get inside the saloon
and he just turns it on,
(gun booming)
into this stone cold killing sheriff.
- There's a very thin line in those days between justice
and the criminals.
- I got so caught up into watching Billy Bob perform
'cuz it was so understated and so cool.
And I didn't say my line walked out
the door and I went oh,
I had a line of supposed to give to Sam.
- He's a powerful actor.
It's hard to take your eye off of him.
- There's only one killer in Fort Worth
and that's me.
- Claire's character is so powerful.
- Our daughter had gotten killed
when the bandits had raided the camp,
James, he knew she'd made her decision.
- What do I have left to live for James?
- He knew her well enough
to know that he wasn't gonna change her mind no matter what,
it was heartbreaking for him.
But he was very matter of fact about it.
Bye, Claire.
- Y'all hunting strays?
- Wild ones.
- Best come on up to camp.
- Now we're all working together.
First of all,
this is my first time working on horses really.
Then you throw in like 50 cows.
We need people to help us out.
- I'll be gone until tomorrow.
I'm taking Elsa.
- You're what?
- This bunch is short on riders and we need her.
- How am I supposed to make her a lady
when you keep treating her like a man?
- Plenty of ladies in this world.
Pretty short on decent men though.
- I think Margaret's decision regarding Elsa jumping
on a horse.
There's I wouldn't say jealousy,
but there's just a part
of Margaret that just wants to ride across
the field to see the mountains,
the beauty and just the freedom.
- When Elsa gets to help her father find wild cattle
with these other cowboys,
she's absolutely thrilled.
- As a mom,
Margaret is completely terrified of what this means
because the freedom that she is being exposed
to is not going to last.
- It's everything she wants,
she's a horseback rider.
She wants to be a cowboy,
to be in that environment
and trusted to do it is exhilarating for her.
- I'm concerned.
I feel like she'll be protected,
but this child is spirited
and she's hardheaded and strong,
but she's also very smart.
- Ennis is,
he's a cowboy and he's a,
he's a damn good one.
The thrill we got from really gathering cattle,
there was no acting going on.
It was full focused cowboy mode.
Ennis wholeheartedly embarks
on this journey for one reason
and that's Elsa.
If this was a cartoon,
this would be the moment Ennis's eyes like pop
into hearts.
It's truly one of those fall in love
at first sight kind of things for Ennis.
- Elsa, she wants to go after
this young man and confuse him
and enamor him.
- Maybe you're too pretty for me.
Maybe he takes her by surprise at first,
at least when she sees that he's interested in her.
- He is just completely overtaken by this girl.
And can't wait to spend more time with her even
if that means going
through the hardest journey of his entire life.
- When you see the flashback to the Civil War,
it morphs outta the original picture
into a live shot of Antietam and the farmhouse.
- I wanted people to be able
to hold up the photograph next
to our depiction of it and it be identical
and I think it is.
- You find out that that I was a captain
in the Civil War for the Confederacy.
And James had a lot of pain and PTSD from that.
Tom and I have been friends for such a long time.
But when you're sitting there
and you see Tom Hanks walk up and look at you and say,
"Captain,"
I just fell apart.
- When actors like this are willing to come play
for a day or two,
whether it's Tom Hanks or Billy Bob,
it gives a weight to the world
and it gives a sense
that anything can happen to anybody in this world.
- Cut.
- Cut, cut.
- The struggles are all real.
The people are all real.
- The journey is beginning and there is
a long road ahead.
- It is not a walk in the park.
It's a rocky road,
big time.
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