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“I gotta say I did play a lot of Red Dead Redemption 2,” Hawke told ComicBook. “I was really just wandering through and they got a little snow going there, I started to get excited about what this was going to look like. I love Westerns, I grew up watching them. My father loves Westerns, even more than that, when I was about 10, showing me Westerns was really about our favorite family tradition.”
“I watched Hateful Eight,” Grace added. “I just watched a lot of not even westerns, but things shot in the snow. I wanted to see if I could tell if it affected the actors, and then found that out for ourselves later on. I got really psyched about getting to be part of a Western. I’d never had that experience before, so…really cool one.”
“I grew up watching them,” Akinnagbe said. “We’d watch the spaghetti Westerns on Channel 5 growing up. Clint Eastwood, all of them, John Wayne, and you go out and you play, as a kid, all these games as well. I think every actor, lowkey wants to be in a Western because it takes us right back to childhood, so to get an opportunity to do it was really dope, especially in these circumstances because it was such an off-kilter Western, still true to the genre, but really stretching it.”
Per the movie’s official synopsis, in The Thicket, “when fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Peter Dinklage) is recruited by a desperate man to track down a ruthless killer known only as Cutthroat Bill (Juliette Lewis), he rallies a band of unlikely heroes including a grave-digging ex-slave and a street-smart woman-for-hire. Together they embark on a perilous quest to track down Cutthroat Bill that leads them into the deadly no-man’s-land known as…The Thicket.”
The Thicket will land in theaters on September 6th before traveling to Tubi for streaming.
