00:00Were you a fan of Yellowstone before signing on to Marshalls?
00:04No, I just hadn't seen it.
00:07But I was a fan of Taylor Sheridan's work.
00:10I'd seen some of his films.
00:12And I, you know, I watched the pilot to get a sense of just what it is,
00:18just cinematically and dramaturgically.
00:22And, you know, we, and about a week and a half later, I was shooting.
00:26Once I saw the pilot and realized who this character was in relationship to Casey,
00:33part of his past, not necessarily the Yellowstone past, but before that,
00:38it was actually important for me to not watch anymore Yellowstone.
00:42And so that I, when I'm asking questions, they're a little more organic on screen.
00:48But there are definitely times, I don't remember if it was a character or me,
00:52but I was, I remember asking, what is the train station?
00:55Like, what, why a train station?
00:56I don't get it.
00:57It just was going over my head.
00:58But then I understood the power of that word and why it was being used once he told me.
01:05So I was very happy to be ignorant.
01:08Calvin may not know what's been going on in Casey's life in the past couple of years,
01:14because he's been dealing with his own demons.
01:17Yeah, no, I don't think, you know, look, I mean,
01:19a lot of these guys keep, keep tabs on each other after they leave.
01:24That's an incredibly tight brotherhood, the SEAL teams.
01:27But, you know, given Casey's, you know,
01:31geography, where he went and where I'm from,
01:33no, there was, and I spoke to Spencer,
01:35there was no understanding of what he's been through,
01:39other than really in the last, like, you know, year or two since Yellowstone ended.
01:45You know, and I, as you know, incredible events happens in his life,
01:52and he needed purpose.
01:54And this was not unlike another character,
01:57character, which you will meet from our SEAL team.
02:01And, and, you know, there's a lot of motivation there for Cal to get him out
02:07so that he doesn't just become another casualty of war, but not in war, out of war.
02:12I love that Calvin refers to his team as a modern day posse,
02:16because that's really what they are.
02:18You know, and I think it's so interesting that he recruited Belle and Andrea first.
02:23What qualities was he looking for in his team members?
02:27I think, you know, he needed, you know, he needed a, he's a leader,
02:31but he, you know, he, he needed a, he needed brains,
02:34someone who could work technology.
02:36He's a total Luddite.
02:38As you'll see, he does not, and he's, he is, so he, he has Ash.
02:42He needed someone who could get in and out,
02:46someone like it with a mask, Belle,
02:49who he knew had already put on a mask of her own,
02:51which you'll find out kind of in her own life.
02:53He needed somebody also like who could represent the people that they would be fighting for in,
03:00you know, Tatanka's character, Miles.
03:03And he needed a door kicker.
03:05He needed the tip of the spear, the warrior, the sword.
03:08And that was going to be Casey.
03:10But, you know, he didn't just come to Montana to create a posse.
03:14You know, he didn't just come to Montana to join Yellowstone.
03:19He didn't just come to Montana to reunite with Casey.
03:22He was an afterthought in many ways.
03:25When you learn who Cal is and what his agenda is,
03:28he came to Montana for a completely different reason.
03:31The pilot episode, he says to Casey,
03:35you know, you realize this is the anecdote.
03:37Helping people and finding new purpose is how you wash away the stains of war.
03:42You realize this is the antidote.
03:44For what?
03:45All the violence we've endured and inflicted.
03:49Helping others and finding new purpose.
03:52Being a part of the back again.
03:53That's how you wash the stains of war away.
03:56So I think there is something very noble in Cal's, you know, mission in Montana.
04:02So, I mean, mission, so to speak, or objective.
04:05Yeah, he has absolutely a nobility in trying to fix the wrongs of war that they've been through.
04:13You'll learn that through a character.
04:14Like I said, it's going to move away from a linear show to a much more kind of flashback driven.
04:20And, but when I, there's also, you know, motivation that is not necessarily such a, that of a noble soldier.
04:30Which you'll find out.
04:31And it has nothing to do with the marshals.
04:34And it has nothing to do with the SEAL team.
04:36Well, I want to get into episode two a little bit.
04:39I nearly screamed when I realized it would take place at the train station, a.k.a. the Zone of
04:45Death.
04:46So where's the deal going down?
04:47Just over the Wyoming border, a place called the Zone of Death.
04:50I don't know, apparently it got its name because there's no citizens, no law enforcement, no judges or juries.
04:55So there's no way to prosecute crimes.
04:57What was your reaction to learning about what this place means to Casey and the Duttons?
05:03I was a little shocked, but I couldn't play it necessarily in episode two.
05:10You will see when he, when the, when the character truly learns what the train station means and what that
05:18Zone of Death means historically to Casey and why he was getting the yips there a little bit.
05:26And that is something that will come to light and his view of who Casey is will change.
05:33During the heat of that mission, you know, Casey brings up Roner, which rattles both him and Cal.
05:40Andrew's right.
05:41We got to hold on what we got.
05:42We don't move.
05:44It's Roner all over.
05:45Do you know what happened with Roner and what can you tease about that incident?
05:52Oh, yes, no, I know everything that happened with Roner.
05:55In fact, what I know about Roner, Casey actually doesn't.
06:00And, and I refused, and you'll see that will put another wrench in our works and that Roner is a
06:06part as you kind of get a sense of our past from Afghanistan and in the SEAL team.
06:11And there will be a character that comes, not Roner, but another character that comes back into our lives, who
06:18is also part of that story.
06:19And that story will completely implode on us.
06:23And that is part of where the show will move away from a linear procedural to much more of a
06:29character driven, relation driven narrative.
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