Far from the arid and hot deserts of the southwest, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 journeys north up to Montana, where we meet a group of characters that are seemingly separated from the rest of the story. When the film starts, we meet the daring Lucy (Jena Malone) as she shoots a man and leaves him to die before escaping in a wagon with her child. Unfortunately, the man she shoots happens to be the patriarch of an influential and powerful family, which leads her to a life on the run from the man's sons, Junior (Jon Beavers) and Caleb Sykes (Jamie Campbell Bower).
Years later, Lucy, now called Ellen, is married and raising her son in a small town in the mountains. Oftentimes, her sister Marigold (Abbey Lee) will come and look after her son. When Junior and Caleb finally catch up to Lucy, they're intent on getting revenge for their father and getting their baby brother back. Marigold, who is watching over the boy, is forced to flee her town with the traveller Hayes (Kevin Costner) or be killed by the Sykes.
We spoke with both Jamie Campbell Bower and Abbey Lee about their storylines in Horizon: An American Saga. For Bower, whose character Caleb faces off with Hayes in a deadly showdown, we discussed his final scene and acting across Kevin Costner. The actor discussed the nuances of filmmaking and his impression of Costner's performance. Lee discusses whether we'll see Marigold again, who travels with Hayes until the end of the film, when she abandons him and leaves Ellen's son with some random travellers to adopt. The two actors also discussed the struggles they had filming for the Western epic, with Lee particularly speaking about the difficulty she had with the period-accurate costuming.
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