of the interview, we felt comfortable with him, and he with us. GATHERINGS ||
Now you see movies like Dances With Wolves or The Last of the Mohicans and there is some attempt to show Indian people as people, so when my little girl says to me, while pointing to YOU, "That's one of the good guys", you've done
MP: Well, would that be something you would consider? There is an endless amount of historical fact they dredge up from the past and twist it around and suck all the blood out of Indian people to paint their own pictures. [Laughter]. LINKS
You know, Robert DeNiro and Val Kilmer didn't go out to the closest available reservation and give him an eagle feather oh, sorry, Al Pacino didn't give him an eagle feather to join his division downtown in Los Angeles. There was a real enthusiasm projected when discussing his masks. MENUS! Faye Marie. I: Uncas comes over as the strong and silent character (minus the huge amount of dialogue), but the terrific expressions that you have throughout the film speak for you. It was an alternative school for troubled teens who couldn't cope with a regular school curriculum so they booted them all out and put them all in a big building. I don't mind period pieces as long as it's something positive and not negative. Eric Schweig and Arye Gross in "Big Eden." Out gay filmmaker Thomas Bezucha has a new film, "Let Him Go," now out in theaters. The more the merrier. No problem. ES: I guess I'll have to. I'm getting sick of looking at the same usual suspects all the time. Russell or Daniel? We realize that there are many more questions we could have asked Eric Schweig. Well, like I said, Red River has received a lot of attention in Europe and people have described it as beautiful. I love. ES: After I left the Mohicans, I said, "I hope I never see him again." It's going to be released here so just brace yourself. before it was a tad more difficult than we'd anticipated. All they want to do is restrict native roles to native people. MP: Alice, played by Jodhi May, was obviously your love interest. COLLECTIBLES ||
But we are running out of actors and we need new blood. Okay . You were born in Inuvik? He's a nice guy. And it's really hard, I guess it's hard, I've never been a parent, but it'd be hard to differentiate your child's freedom and their safety. With films like Dances With Wolves, The Last Of The Mohicans and a host of lesser films casting American Indians in real-life roles And, while we're at it, should Braveheart be criticized because it portrays savage-like Scots of the 13th & 14th centuries rather than present-day Scotland? He was just a guy. Since we came upon, posted, and discussed the above interview, both here and on the WWW Board, we have had the good fortune to be able to talk with Eric Schweig directly. I don't like to refer to it as a reference. The point is that it's not really
I: How did you get on with the rest of the cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jodhi May and Russell Means? Available - Free Downloads Only! ES: Yeah, THE INDIAN. How would you compare the role to others you've played? That and the part where Alice jumps from the cliff are some of the finest in the film! Have you seen the movie? rights, or land claims, or any of that, you have to start healing yourself. ES: I don't know, they should have stuck it in there. That's good because anything that can you know what I'm into in? That's why we had, sometimes, 15 or 16 hour days. Now, it is possible that there was more to the interview than that which made it to print. HISTORY ||
Some of my friends are Mohawks. Yeah, ask any actor and they will tell you one of the most fun things to do is to make a departure from yourself and play a villain. MP: Where as a well made period piece, showing history as realistically as can be, is good. Even Daniel did. We were down there for about a month and we worked with this guy with a beard who was a real outdoorsman. Put us into 1992 along with everyone else. RM F6FR3M - RELEASE DATE: Aug 26, 1992. Although at one point they wanted to shave everybody's hair off. We were in Columbus, Georgia for about a month. But, take yourself. ES: Yes. MP: We're about 40 minutes east of Asheville. MP: She's working with you with these kids? I have done bit parts in Bordertown and The Black Stallion. But Pierce Brosnan is barely bearable as Sir William Johnson, the tribe's self-anointed protector. E: Something like that. it's not that big a deal whether they're historically correct or not because they never can be. And we didn't finish till, I don't know, 11, 12 something like that, anyway. They do them and it comes right from
Indians from all over the country, Canada just everywhere. [2] We had a love scene that was cut out. E: Oh, that was the hardest time anyone ever had. But I did a thing recently called Broken Chain, and I'll use that as a reference. Guide book STILL
There are a couple of words we just couldn't make out, indicated by a [??] EARLY
ES: Uhmm. No, it wasn't a sex scene. So, while you guys were filming this did you have any sense of bonding? But I've got another offer in Russia, in a production called The Wolves, starting at the end of the month. So, that's what I'm going to try to do with these guys this week. I encourage kids to do this now. A little better, though. In COLOR! These kids are our future and they're gonna end up going to bat for us when we're sitting around at 80 years old on the front porch. Filled up with all those bodies in there.. in the fort. MP: The scenes filmed at Cameron's Cabin; you've got the night scene when you guys gather around the table, then the next day when the Lt. is trying to recruit colonials to support the British Army, and then later on, when you guys revisit the cabin and
We had a really deep love scene in the cave and they cut that out completely. There were guys from all over the place. There's got to be a lot of women in order for there to be a lot of guys MP: Well, in that regard, most of the film takes place where you wouldn't expect to FIND a lot of women, on the battle front. Guide book STILL
retrospect, how do you feel about the quality of that film? MP: Is this role already accepted or is it something you're considering? Glad we did! AMERICAN HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS
Born in Canada's Northwest Territories and of Inuvialuit lineage, Schweig was adopted into an abusive family as a baby and suffered under their treatment until, at age 16, he ran away to Toronto.. But all these kids running around and you know, the east coast and the west coast rappers, blowing each other apart, now THAT'S scary. In
He's the guy that showed us how to
The Cliff Trails. [Sad voice. E: There are six different nations in the Mohawk nation. E: I'll stay in movies until I can get enough money to buy a ranch in Montana, live the life of a hermit get 10 or 15 dogs sounds good, doesn't it? People from all over the world. get here?" They'll suck all
Many visitors have commented upon the quality of your masks. There were also a few scenes cut out that should not have been. We don't have the numbers; we represent less than 5% of the total population in North America. LINKS
Both musical pieces heard during this interview are by Tudjaat,
I play an Alaskan conservationist who comes to help him out, because the mining company starts poisoning all his wolves. He's a nice enough guy. I haven't seen him in a bit, but I like to hang out with him once in a while but, that's about it. And it seems to me, we could have been more of a family unit. It's cool, everything's cool. well, it's getting better,
So, it it is somewhat difficult to have to knock his words. like boxing in a telephone booth. So, that's good to see. ES: Well, no. ES: Oh yeah. But after practicing, after a
have anything to do with carving. Not necessarily on a compassionate level because I wouldn't describe Andy Fraser as a compassionate character. Everything just soars in it. Col. Dave Webster runs this thing out of Columbus,
We should be running around and, . not running around.. but we should be in, you know, suits.. like everybody else. in normal clothes. As the film nears the end, the group progresses up a precarious waterfall, one of Hawkeye's friends, Uncas (Eric Schweig) is killed by the men tracking them, and he falls off the edge of the waterfall. [Laughs] In case people liked ours better! MP: We've heard about those. Master Carver Eric Schweig (Ray Dean Thrasher) learned under the tutelage of renowned Tahltan carver Vern Etzerza. If there's any kind of panic, it started at the top with the producers. EARLY
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friendly towards each other or any of that. Has Eric ever heard of "running the gauntlet"? What was originally scripted for that scene was pretty graphic. MP: OK, take all the movies you've been in if you could only be in one of them again, which one would it be? LINKS
They could come so close but the rest is just theoretical, or hypothetical. I also am an adult survivor of abuse by my adoptive parents. I would. MP: Any plans of showcasing them, or giving them their day in the sun? He expects the same from his cast and his crew. You know? I: Have you seen the whole film unedited? What else? But you know, it's expected. I'll do it. E: I caught that myself! They can get egotistical. You have to have some sort of sympathy or empathy for villains like otherwise. there's such a thing as senility. All of a sudden they just start busting out. People either love it or they hate it and that's what you want. It's not in the middle of downtown San Francisco where they
Because they really need a sense of belonging and that sort of gives
PART 2: ERIC SCHWEIG: AN INTERVIEW MP: Okay, well.. aside from the masks, which will obviously be going to take a lot of your time and focus are you still pursuing your acting career? like a sauna in the summertime. He's extremely
.. We'd sit and talk about playing guitar. I think it's called Across Continents, something like that, but it's [picture of the mask] right on the cover of it. Yeah, probably the Magua scrap was my favorite. That's why they cut that love scene out. Was the fort built for the film? We have them back and now we can take care of them. He was in good humor throughout. MOHICAN PRESS
Sometimes I felt like I wanted to scream or something. He was into powder rifles and stuff like that. I wouldn't
on our Book Store page. How would he feel if film directors did not use native people in native roles? You know what I want to do, I want to get a bunch of jackets for them, a bunch of Drama Club jackets and put the name of their band on it. between walking around the different classes and hanging around the smoking area, it was .. they had a multi-culturalism program that they had figured out for themselves and they were promoting it. He was one of the leaders of the 70-day siege at Wounded Knee in 1973, an incident which arose out of an AIM dispute with federal and tribal authorities. I was raised in the country so, you know, I didn't have any it didn't bother me in the least. You know, if you get beaten down for so long and then you
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So, what they would like to know is what would
Like this week. there's 7 or 8 guys that I'm going to speak with. So, beyond that, .. we gotta get with it. Or do you instead allow your own mood, your color preferences .. that sort of thing, to blend with tradition and then the result being a unique
E: I don't know maybe I was the right height! I work with sex trade workers and I try to hook them up with agencies that can help them. MP: Do you think society all societies. have lost their sense of nurturing and protecting. or seeing children for what they are? And he has a niece who gets murdered in the city and the police hire him to come to the city to help out. an Inuit duo! So what if the film was not shot in the
Previous to this "formal" interview, we had had several long conversations with Eric, focusing primarily on his hand carved Inuit masks. They would have liked to have seen that scene kept in or at least the relationship more developed, alongside Hawkeye and Cora's. The following interview - apparently from late 1992 - appeared in the pages of Trail Dust magazine. They'll get a kick out of that. I think, anyway. Copyright 1997 - 2020 by
ES: Tell them, "Thanks for your support. Did you feel close? You have to sit down and focus. I was homeless when I was a kid. Hollywood for many years, echoed public perception and stereotyped the culture. I don't know what either one of them is doing. It would never have happened! MP: Yeah, Chimney Rock. of the interview, we felt comfortable with him, and he with us. A lot of these people are among your biggest fans, which is why many of them came to our web site in the first place. Eric is certainly a personable, well-spoken & easy-to-talk-to person. They were doing illegal tampering with time cards, skimming hours off time cards and the make-up artists went on strike. Blackstone Season 1 - "The Ladies Want to Know" 48,230 views Nov 24, 2011 217 Dislike Share Save BlackstoneTheSeries 1.14K subscribers Eric Schweig answers questions about Last of the. E: Oh, yeah. He seems like a good guy. So, no, not to me. Just a cop. MP: Yeah! Try to balance it, you know.. go
ES: Yeah. Most of the time I was either standing or running. But there was some kind of beef with the production company and the North Carolina tourism division. I don't think. It's box office numbers. Eric Schweig is a Canadian actor of mixed Inuvialuk, Chippewa-Dene and German heritage. MP: Compared to other directors you've worked with since Michael Mann, how does he fit in to the over all mold of the other directors? Return To Part 1 Of ERIC SCHWEIG: AN INTERVIEW, See Eric As Uncas, From The DVD-version: UNCAS & ALICE, A cause dear to his heart, read:
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