{"id":4071,"date":"2014-10-10T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2014-10-17T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T23:30:52","slug":"lewis-clark-film-seeking-native-cast-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/10\/lewis-clark-film-seeking-native-cast-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis & Clark film seeking Native cast members"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sacagawea\"<\/a>

The Sacagawea one-dollar coin shows what the star of an HBO series on Lewis and Clark might look like.<\/p><\/div>\n

Casey Affleck has already been cast as Meriwether Lewis in an HBO miniseries on the Lewis and Clark expedition, but filmmakers are still looking for a young Native American woman to play the part of Sacagawea, the expedition\u2019s Shoshone guide and interpreter.<\/p>\n

Casting calls being held in Montana and other locations throughout the Northwest will also be seeking Native Americans familiar with traditional languages, as well as horseback riders.<\/p>\n

Deny Staggs, bureau chief for the Montana Film Office, said the casting director is Rene Haynes, a native of Great Falls who is \u201cthe preeminent Native American casting director in the entire industry. She\u2019s awesome, so we\u2019re really psyched she\u2019s working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casting calls are scheduled for early November in Missoula, Polson and Browning, but taped auditions and interviews are also being accepted.<\/p>\n

According to a press release from the Montana Film Office, HBO will be basing the six-hour miniseries on \u201cUndaunted Courage,\u201d Stephen E. Ambrose\u2019s acclaimed book about the Corps of Discovery, sent by President Thomas Jefferson to seek the fabled all-water route to the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

\"Affleck\"<\/a>

Casey Affleck<\/p><\/div>\n

The release described the series as \u201cthe story of America\u2019s first contact with the land and Native tribes of the country west of the Mississippi River.\u201d A story in the Hollywood Reporter said the series \u201cwill focus on the achievements of Lewis and Clark as well as the physical, spiritual and emotional toll the expedition takes on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haynes will be looking for a Native American woman age 17 to early 20s, but who appears younger, to play Sacagawea. She will also be looking for Native Americans of all ages who familiar with these languages: Shoshone, Nez Perce, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Blackfeet, Chinook, Clatsop, Walla Walla, Sioux and Shawnee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the languages of some of the peoples whom Lewis and Clark encountered on their journey and who were important to the expedition\u2019s success,\u201d Haynes said in the release. \u201cWe will make every effort to find as many authentic speakers as we can to be respectful to everyone\u2019s contribution to this important story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Native men 20 to 50 years old who are lean and fit and who are skilled horseback riders are also encouraged to apply. Long hair is considered a plus.<\/p>\n

Staggs said the miniseries is a production of HBO and National Geographic Entertainment, as well as production companies associated with three Hollywood stars \u2014 Tom Hanks\u2019 Playtone, Edward Norton\u2019s Class 5 and Brad Pitt\u2019s Plan B. The director is John Curran. The Hollywood Reporter said Norton, Curran and Michelle Ashford are writing the script.<\/p>\n

\"CapreAir_Variable\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>Staggs said the film office has been talking to representatives of the production since 2007, but that various setbacks and scheduling programs postponed film starts that were supposed to take place in 2010 and 2010. As it stands now, he said, filming is scheduled to begin next June and the series would probably air starting in September 2016.<\/p>\n

Staggs said the filmmakers apparently haven\u2019t decided where the filming will be done yet. Locations have been scouted all along the Lewis and Clark trail and elsewhere, he said, with the scouting in Montana concentrated on the area between Bozeman and Three Forks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten really, really great response from them on our looks, but I\u2019m sure they\u2019ve scouted other locations here and in Canada,\u201d Staggs said.<\/p>\n

Haynes has been involved in Native American casting going back to \u201cDances With Wolves,\u201d the 1990 movie starring Kevin Costner. Since then, she has done the casting for \u201cBury My Heart at Wounded Knee,\u201d \u201cTwilight Saga: New Moon & Eclipse,\u201d \u201cSkins\u201d and \u201cInto the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the schedule for the casting calls: Missoula, Nov. 5, Holiday Inn Missoula Downtown; Polson, Nov. 8, Best Western KwaTaqNuk Resort; Browning, Montana Holiday Inn Express & Suites. All sessions will run from noon to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

To apply online, go here<\/a>. The application deadline is Nov. 12. Other casting calls will be held in Canada, Idaho, Wyoming and Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Casey Affleck has already been cast as Meriwether Lewis in an HBO miniseries on the Lewis and Clark expedition, but filmmakers are still looking for a young Native American woman to play the part of Sacagawea, the expedition\u2019s Shoshone guide and interpreter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[1485,1486,1483,1478,1479,1482,1481,1480,1484],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-montana","tag-undaunted-courage","tag-casey-affleck","tag-deny-staggs","tag-hbo","tag-lewis-and-clark","tag-montana-film-office","tag-rene-haynes","tag-sacagawea","tag-stephen-ambrose","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}