Owen Crow Shoe always dreamed of making a movie withKevin Costner.
“I’ve always been a huge, huge fan,” he tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“I’ve seen it multiple, multiple times, and every time, it never gets old.
Owen Crow Shoe as Pionsenay in ‘Horizon: An American Saga’.Warner Bros
I always pick up something new every time I watch it.”
“If Kevin Costner calls, you’re going to do it,” he quips.
Because looking atDances With Wolves, that’s a huge thing for the Lakota people.
Owen Crow Shoe as Pionsenay in ‘Horizon: An American Saga’.Warner Bros
They’re really proud of that because they’re speaking accurate and fluent Lakota in the film."
“I was coming in learning a brand new language,” Shoe says.
“It was a lot.
The patience that they had with us was phenomenal.
It must’ve been like teaching babies.
“He tried to keep the peace.
One of them, in particular, is Apaches fighting Apaches over the limited resources left on the land.
That’s the last straw to make him see that we have to fight.
So that’s where we find him now.”
It’s for this reason that Shoe feelsHorizonbucks the stereotypes of traditional Westerns.
And how tough a day-to-day life was back then.
“He also did a really good job portraying how we were one with the land.
Before the settlers came over, we were doing perfectly fine,” Shoe continues.
Everything was so connected back then.”
Shoe notes that they also had a historical advisor, Dr. Bearshield, on hand.
He’ll see to it that the representation is spot on."
Shoe describes the multi-hyphenate as consistently “lighthearted” no matter what is happening on set.
“He works really fast,” Shoe explains.
“If he likes what he sees, he’s like, ‘We got it.
We’re moving on.’
Let’s move on.'
And he was like, ‘Yeah, okay, I like that.
Let’s set it up.
Let’s do that.’
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Shoe will return forChapter 2of the saga when it hits theaters on Aug. 16.
He’s also being stalked by a group of those settlers looking for revenge for the attack on Horizon.
He really steps into the leadership role a lot more in the next few to come.”
