BROKEN TRAIL STARS TELL COWBOY STORIES

(VIDEO) Broken Trail stars Thomas Haden Church and Greta Scaachi tell their own personal cowboy experiences.

Thomas Haden Church stars in the upcoming two part mini-series Broken Trail on AMC as a cowboy who takes an arduous 1,000 mile ride in the 19th century with his uncle played by Robert Duvall to seek his fortune. The award winning Sideways star has played a cowboy before in Tombstone and is a rancher in Texas when he’s not working in Hollywood. He talks about how important being a cowboy off screen is to him.

From cowboy to super villain, Thomas is enjoying a war with Spiderman playing the Sand Man in Spiderman 3.

“It’s a great departure from the entertainment industry and Hollywood. It really gives me a chance to come back to where I’m from and who I always wanted to be, the kind of man and integrity I think we all Texans largely represent. It’s really how I want to be defined. There was a romance that kind of was imbued with cowboys even in that time in the 1870s, 1880s.”

Greta Scaachi plays the prostitute with the heart of gold who secretly wants to settle down with cowboy Robert Duvall. The Australian native says she had a different kind of western experience working in the outback wrangling sheep. rn

“Repeatedly try to crush Spiderman. That I can not tell. They’d tar and feather me and run me off the Sony lot if I was to reveal any critical story points.”

Broken Trail premieres Saturday June 24 at 8PM on AMC.

“I worked as a jillaroon in Australia at a sheep station. I guess that was the closest I got to cowboy lifestyle. It was funny actually, I was translating for Italian laborers. They would bring over these vast Australian outback style sheep stations because they also had crops and they had a lot of crops to seed. But we didn’t have horses. We would round up the sheep on motorbikes.”