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Kevin Costner's 'Horizon: An American Saga' is a multifaceted story that covers the expansion and settlement of the American West during the Civil War. Director, co-writer & star Costner, as well as other members of the film’s cast including Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Luke Wilson, Jamie Campbell Bower, Abbey Lee, Ella Hunt & Isabelle Fuhrman, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter all about working on the Western.

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00:00When I feel like I like a movie, I feel like audiences will like it.

00:05And when I saw Horizon, I just felt strongly that the world, and America in particular,

00:11could go west with me and feel like they saw things in a way they'd never seen it before.

00:16Kevin Costner's Horizon, an American Saga, is a multifaceted story that covers the expansion

00:21and settlement of the American West during the Civil War.

00:24Director, co-writer, and star Costner, as well as other members of the film's cast,

00:28including Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Luke Wilson, and Jamie Campbell-Bauer,

00:33spoke to The Hollywood Reporter all about working on the Western.

00:36This film has a huge ensemble cast, and there are several different storylines going on at the same time.

00:42Why did you think it was important to tell all of these stories in this film?

00:45It was more interesting to me that people are coming for different reasons,

00:50that people who are coming don't even know each other,

00:53that people who are going to end up in Horizon had no idea they were going to end up in Horizon,

00:58that circumstance played a large part in how people's lives were changed in the West.

01:05Costner plays the character Hayes Ellison in the film,

01:07but he's also the mastermind behind the project that he's dreamed of bringing to the big screen since 1988.

01:13How would you describe Kevin Costner as a director?

01:15I love Kevin. I think his passion is unbridled. He's so, so an encyclopedia of knowledge.

01:22You could ask him anything about this moment in history and he would have an answer.

01:25He's really forensically examined it, and it's his passion, and so you just feel swept up in all of that.

01:31Yeah, he's a very particular director, because I think he's lived with this for so long,

01:36so he actually, he knows how detailed he wants each beat, and he knows exactly what he wants.

01:44He has an extraordinary generosity of spirit, which he imbues in every person that he hires on these films,

01:52not just the actors, but the background and the artisans.

01:56He really had so much trust and belief in us and in himself,

02:01and imbued that to every single person on set,

02:04and that felt like there was this infectious energy that we were all creating something

02:09that he said, you know, he hoped would live on forever.

02:12You know, as a director, a really sensitive guy, and it makes me think back to talking to Kevin,

02:17you know, it took him six years to get his SAG card, and he also worked as the stage manager of Raleigh Studios,

02:24so he has almost this kind of old-fashioned kind of history in Hollywood,

02:29where I think he doesn't take anything for granted.

02:32Kevin, of course, is the director of this film, but you also both got to act opposite him.

02:37How would you compare working with Kevin as a fellow actor to as a director?

02:42I found that he's quite a different man as an actor and as a director.

02:45As a director, he's a very powerful man, he's a very strong leader,

02:50he's got a lot of energy, he's very playful,

02:53he kind of seems to be running about all over the place.

02:56And then as an actor, he's a lot gentler and calmer.

02:59Ditto, yeah, I know, they're beautiful. He's just super generous.

03:02I mean, a lot of my stuff is with him, you know,

03:05so I had both Kevin, the director, and the actor,

03:10and we're figuring each other out as actors in the scene and in that moment

03:13and how our hearts are responding.

03:15And he's obviously also thinking about how he's going to shoot this,

03:18what he wants from it.

03:20And that's a really different dynamic.

03:22I've never worked with an actor-director before,

03:24so it's very, very special, super special.

03:27Men will come try you.

03:29They will take from you until you are wiped clean from this land.

03:34I'm just saying that's something you might want to keep in mind.

03:36Horizon has been dubbed a passion project for Costner,

03:39who now famously put in $38 million of his own money to help make the film series.

03:43There are so many headlines already surrounding this movie,

03:46from how much of your own money you've put into it to the critical response.

03:49But behind it all, it's a film that you're clearly really passionate about

03:52and that you really stand behind.

03:54Why are you so passionate about this project,

03:55and why do you think audiences are going to love it?

03:58I don't know why.

03:59It just speaks to me out loud.

04:01And that's been my kind of guide, my North Star of anything I've done.

04:05I thought Field of Dreams was good, you know, and I thought Tin Cup was good.

04:09I thought Bull Durham was a really nice movie,

04:11and Bodyguard was a movie that wasn't going to be made.

04:15It was written 17 years earlier.

04:17No Way Out was a movie called Finish with Engines.

04:20It had been written long.

04:22No one was going to make it.

04:23So when I feel like I like a movie, I feel like audiences will like it.

04:28And when I saw Horizon, I just felt strongly that the world,

04:35and America in particular, could go west with me

04:39and feel like they saw things in a way they'd never seen them before.

04:43Horizon in American Saga Chapter 1 hits theaters Friday.

04:46Chapter 2 is set to be released later this summer on August 16th.

04:50For more on the Horizon Saga, head to THR.com.

04:53For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

04:58For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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