00:00Oh, man, I mean, I was very excited.
00:05I was very excited by the conversations that I had with him.
00:09Actually, we didn't meet in person until we were shooting.
00:13I live in Italy now, so we had a couple of phone calls where we talked about it.
00:20And he told me what the deal was and who he wanted me to play.
00:27And he told me that he was talking to Kurt about the Preston character.
00:32And that was really exciting to me because I worked with Kurt in 2014 on a really little movie that
00:40we loved.
00:41And so to get to work with Kurt again and to play brothers and to explore that dynamic,
00:49I have two brothers myself, an older and a younger brother.
00:53And they're incredibly important relationships to me.
00:56And they're very complex.
00:59And so that was exciting.
01:03And then I read the scripts, and they're beautiful.
01:08So I was all in, and the experience was fantastic.
01:13The whole experience was fantastic.
01:16I was in Vancouver with my mother-in-law, and I had gone through the journey to, like, get this
01:25role and did not know if I had it.
01:27And I was sitting in the car with her, and I got a phone call from Weatherford, Texas.
01:31And in that moment, I thought, either I've got this or he's just being a stand-up man and letting
01:37me know I didn't get it.
01:38But I was on speaker with my mother-in-law, and I went black after.
01:43I don't know what happened.
01:44I'm pretty sure I hung up, and she looked at me and said, Kurt Russell's going to be your dad.
01:49And I was like, what?
01:52Are you sure?
01:53All I remember was, like, you got the job, kid.
01:57Like, I think I went, yeah, I went to another universe and back in that moment.
02:03And to have my mother-in-law be there for me and that my husband was in the wilderness off
02:08-grid.
02:08So I didn't tell him until later that evening when he came back.
02:11But, yeah, it was a highlight in my life.
02:17It was, you know, it was great.
02:19It was part of the reason why I wanted to do the project.
02:21You know, working with Kurt in 2014, we just kind of hit it off.
02:30I mean, outside of what we were doing within the context of the story.
02:36Just every day getting in the van to go to set, and, you know, we would be just like, we're
02:43making a Western.
02:44It's not a Western.
02:46It's not.
02:46It's kind of a Western.
02:48We said it was a Western.
02:52But, and just that kind of childlike quality, actually, that he has that excitement for it all.
03:00And about life in general.
03:01I mean, he's just a very lovable guy.
03:05And so to get an opportunity to play his younger brother and to have this relationship and to have it
03:15really connected through this process of fly fishing on the Madison River and this place that they both love so
03:24much, it was really interesting to me.
03:28And it felt very familiar to me.
03:29I mean, I've been casting a fly rod since I was six or seven years old, and it's something that
03:35I grew up doing.
03:36My father was a, is an avid fly fisherman.
03:39And I have two brothers, and we grew up standing in rivers as it's getting dark, the quiet of the
03:46river, standing 20 or 30 meters apart from each other in the water.
03:50And talking to each other sometimes across that darkness and the sound of the water and the solitude of it.
03:59And there's a certain feeling of connection.
04:02And this whole series for me, and coming at it from Paul's point of view, really was very familiar territory
04:11for me.
04:12And when I was just waiting, I'm not sure.
04:12I'm fine.
04:12I'm fine.
04:12You're fine.
04:13I'm fine.
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