“Wild Indian,” a psychological thriller about two men that have to live with a crime they committed as children, has left its star Michael Greyeyes “haunted.”
“Makwa was so very complicated — when I read the script, I was immediately attracted to the potential of playing a character like this — and this character challenged me on every level,” he told Beatrice Verhoeven at TheWrap’s Sundance Virtual Studio presented by Nfp and National Geographic. “I was attracted to it because Lyle (Mitchell Corbine Jr.)’s script placed an indigenous character inside the center of a frame, like the frame of narrative, and this is a space not usually reserved for indigenous actors, and I relished the opportunity to lead in that sense. But the darkness and the character’s inherent violence was really something challenging for me.”
He added: “I’m still haunted by [the character] — some of the things that Makwa says really struck me,...
“Makwa was so very complicated — when I read the script, I was immediately attracted to the potential of playing a character like this — and this character challenged me on every level,” he told Beatrice Verhoeven at TheWrap’s Sundance Virtual Studio presented by Nfp and National Geographic. “I was attracted to it because Lyle (Mitchell Corbine Jr.)’s script placed an indigenous character inside the center of a frame, like the frame of narrative, and this is a space not usually reserved for indigenous actors, and I relished the opportunity to lead in that sense. But the darkness and the character’s inherent violence was really something challenging for me.”
He added: “I’m still haunted by [the character] — some of the things that Makwa says really struck me,...
- 1/30/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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