On going to what he called "dude school" in Montana But it certainly wasn't a playground role-play thing for me, and it wasn't something I grew up fantasizing about or knowing anything about. And then the revisionist era of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven began as well, which, for me, was at a very formative time in my cinema going experience. I thought, ah, here's deliverance from an unassuming hero in a way. But also, for me, I think where I really clicked into it was probably High Noon. I guess the first inkling I had of traditional Westerns, it was the more sort of John Ford tough man, the John Wayne. I had a little understanding of it from university, from studying cinema at that stage of my life. But no, I certainly didn't have a history of it. about as far from my lived experience as you can imagine, which I guess is part of the enticement of wanting to take this character and this milieu on. On his understanding of the American West prior to filming The Power of the Dog
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