She Rides Shotgun with Nick Rowland and Michael Mohan (Ep. 557)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Director Nick Rowland discusses his new film, She Rides Shotgun, with fellow Director Michael Mohan in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses deliberately casting a younger Actor in the role of the father to shape the narrative around coming into parenthood, his process for Directing the lead child Actor in the film to get the right performances, and aiming for an aesthetic style reminiscent of 70s cinema. The film tells the story of Nathan McClusky, a former convict who makes enemies with a powerful criminal gang after getting out of prison. When the gang retaliates by putting out a hit on his family, Nate must transform his shy eleven-year-old daughter into a force to be reckoned with. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/events/2025/october2025/sheridesshotgun_qna_0825

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0:00.0	There's a version of this story, which where the father is maybe in his 50s and there's more of a knows what a father is.
0:08.0	And I was kind of really keen to cast someone young who doesn't even really know what being a father means.
0:14.8	So it's sort of something he has to learn.
0:20.4	Music Hello and welcome back to the Directors Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:40.2	In this episode, an ex-con teaches his daughter how to survive after she's been marked for death,
0:45.6	and director Nick Rowland's thriller, She Rides Shotgun.
0:49.4	The film tells the story of Nathan McCluskey, a former convict who makes enemies with a powerful
0:54.8	criminal gang after getting out of prison. When the gang retaliates by putting out a hit on his
1:00.2	family, Nate must transform his shy 11-year-old daughter into a force to be reckoned with.
1:06.9	In addition to She Ride Shotgun, Rowland's other directorial credits include the feature film, Calm with Horses,
1:13.7	the movie for television, Floodlights, and episodes of the series Hard Sun and Ripper Street.
1:20.9	Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Roland spoke with director Michael Mohan about filming
1:27.6	She Ride Shotgun.
1:29.8	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
1:38.4	Hello.
1:39.8	Nick flew in from London to be here.
1:45.0	Yeah. To show it to his peers.
1:48.0	Thank you so much for coming here to see the movie this evening.
1:52.0	Really appreciate it.
1:54.0	I mean, it's amazing.
1:55.0	I mean, I was just telling him that I have an eight-year-old and a five-year-old daughter,
2:00.0	so it hit me especially hard.
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