STARS OF BROKEN TRAIL COULD’VE LIVED IN OLD WEST

(VIDEO)The stars of AMC western epic Broken Trail talk about what they would do for a living if they lived during the Old West.

Broken Trail is an epic western which takes place in the still unchartered territory of America’s 19th century. At the premiere the stars wondered if they could live in that time of the old west, and what kind of job they would be doing. Chris Mulkey knows for certain he would be prosperous and someone to fear.

Scott Cooper has a personal connection to star Robert Duvall. He and his wife were married on his farm and will be working together on several screenplays he’s written. Virginia born, Scott says he’d be working on the land.

“I think I could’ve very well lived in the 1880s in the West. It’s a very comfortable genre for me. It’s a very comfortable kind of society for me where a person makes his own rules and is as good as his actions and his words. I’d be a bad guy if I lived in that time. I wouldn’t be robbing saloons in that time. I think I’d be knocking over banks and doing some land grabs. I think I would’ve done very, very well. I might’ve opened a church or two in my older years, settled down. The Bad Guys Church, maybe. I don’t know, yeah.”rn

Gwendoline Yeo who was last seen as the undermining surrogate mother of Carlos and Gabrielle on Desperate Housewives plays an enslaved Chinese girl who is rescued from prostitution by Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. She says she was completely transformed by the whole experience of working on a western.

“A wrangler. I love riding horses. I love that open space. I love being around those wild animals. I think that would be terrific. That and just a good old cowboy.”

Broken Trail was screened at the White House for the President and the First Lady. Bush being a cowboy himself gave the series two thumbs up. The two parter airs Sunday, June 25 and Monday June 26 at 8PM on AMCrn

“I went from a city girl to an actual grass lovin’ girl. I’m like Beverly Hills girl in heels and I’m like, ‘is that grass?’ That’s grass. Did that horse just pooped? They just pooped. By the end of it I was describing the clouds like I was Robert Frost. Look at the shape of the brow of that cloud it’s amazing. Of course I was in scenery and it was my first Western. Who would think that someone would be so transcending like AMC to do a movie that’s a western but with a Chinese thread. That is trail blazing.”