You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and these are my interviews with the stars from

The New Film, Horizon, and American Saga, Chapter 1, Sam Worvington, Sienna Miller, Jamie Campbell

Bauer, and the film's costume designer Lisa LaVos.

You and I are standing guard in one of the last great open spaces.

Yeah. You and I are standing guard in one of the last great open spaces.

These people think they're tough enough, smart enough, and mean enough. All this will be there someday there's no army of this earth it's going to stop those

wagons coming little as they're wanted i'm being joined right now by sam warbington and sienna

miller the two stars from kevin cosner's epic western film Horizon American saga. This is for Chapter 1 for the record. There will be a Chapter 2 coming out in a couple of weeks, but I want to start off by asking both of you together how did this come about? Because this is such a large scale production that Kevin's been thinking about for such a long

time. Did he call you directly? Did you audition? How did this all happen? I got a call for my

agent saying, Kevin Costner wants to talk to you, which was obviously a hugely exciting

prospect. I've been an enormous admirer of his forever. And I got sent four very dense, heavy scripts that I read,

assuming it was a TV series, because there were four of them. And we got on the phone and he said,

no, I'm making four movies. And we talked and we got along and he talked about character. And

then he ended it by saying, will you go west with me? Which was thrilling. Yeah, it was, it was sort of,

and it was a no-brainer for me.

And it sounds like. Okay. Wow. So you guys get these four scripts. He tells you about his

vision to essentially take long-form storytelling and bring it to theaters in this way where, yes,

we've had stuff like the MCU and interconnected universes.

And, I mean, Sam, you're also doing similar stuff with Avatar across so many different films.

But this feels very unique and rather different in today's landscape and especially for the

Western genre.

So when you hear about the ambition of something like this, obviously it's exciting to want to be a part of,

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