Peter Berg

So do you remember a movie called Jeremiah Johnson? Did you ever see that with Robert Redford? Yeah, yeah, yeah, a long time ago. So Redford plays this city man who goes out west looking for gold and ends up sort of stuck somewhere around Montana and is trying to survive out there. When the Indians first find him, he's so inept. He's trying to catch a fish in a frozen river with his hands.

So do you remember a movie called Jeremiah Johnson? Did you ever see that with Robert Redford? Yeah, yeah, yeah, a long time ago. So Redford plays this city man who goes out west looking for gold and ends up sort of stuck somewhere around Montana and is trying to survive out there. When the Indians first find him, he's so inept. He's trying to catch a fish in a frozen river with his hands.

I mean, he's completely inept that they don't even waste an arrow on him. They don't kill him. And by the end of the film, he's a warrior and he's learned how to survive and he marries a Native American woman and his wife gets killed and he goes on a vengeance spree and kills a whole bunch of people and ends up getting this incredible respect from the Native Americans.

I mean, he's completely inept that they don't even waste an arrow on him. They don't kill him. And by the end of the film, he's a warrior and he's learned how to survive and he marries a Native American woman and his wife gets killed and he goes on a vengeance spree and kills a whole bunch of people and ends up getting this incredible respect from the Native Americans.

I mean, he's completely inept that they don't even waste an arrow on him. They don't kill him. And by the end of the film, he's a warrior and he's learned how to survive and he marries a Native American woman and his wife gets killed and he goes on a vengeance spree and kills a whole bunch of people and ends up getting this incredible respect from the Native Americans.

And my dad took me to see Jeremiah Johnson and that movie always stuck with me. And I'm good friends with Taylor Sheridan, and we work together a lot, and I obviously know everything he's doing, and I kinda wanted to see if I could play in that space. But he's doing it so well and so specifically, I kinda thought, well, what if I just did something that was really about the survival.

And my dad took me to see Jeremiah Johnson and that movie always stuck with me. And I'm good friends with Taylor Sheridan, and we work together a lot, and I obviously know everything he's doing, and I kinda wanted to see if I could play in that space. But he's doing it so well and so specifically, I kinda thought, well, what if I just did something that was really about the survival.

And my dad took me to see Jeremiah Johnson and that movie always stuck with me. And I'm good friends with Taylor Sheridan, and we work together a lot, and I obviously know everything he's doing, and I kinda wanted to see if I could play in that space. But he's doing it so well and so specifically, I kinda thought, well, what if I just did something that was really about the survival.

And I like to call it inch by inch filmmaking, where you think about how hard it would have been just to go 50 feet and take a piss, and how there might have been 15 different things that could have killed you on the way to taking that piss.

And I like to call it inch by inch filmmaking, where you think about how hard it would have been just to go 50 feet and take a piss, and how there might have been 15 different things that could have killed you on the way to taking that piss.

And I like to call it inch by inch filmmaking, where you think about how hard it would have been just to go 50 feet and take a piss, and how there might have been 15 different things that could have killed you on the way to taking that piss.

Instead of just jumping through those 50 things, let's really try and stretch it out and try and show people and capture the brutality of moment-to-moment living back in that part of America in the 1850s. And you're used to doing films.

Instead of just jumping through those 50 things, let's really try and stretch it out and try and show people and capture the brutality of moment-to-moment living back in that part of America in the 1850s. And you're used to doing films.

Instead of just jumping through those 50 things, let's really try and stretch it out and try and show people and capture the brutality of moment-to-moment living back in that part of America in the 1850s. And you're used to doing films.

Yeah, it was a massive job. You know, a movie, a big movie is generally like 85-day shoot. American Primeval was 145-day shoot. And I had one of my ideas, and with Markel Smith, who wrote the episodes and was very talented, was let's not shoot in sound stages. Let's not make parking lots look like forests, but let's go up into the mountains.

Yeah, it was a massive job. You know, a movie, a big movie is generally like 85-day shoot. American Primeval was 145-day shoot. And I had one of my ideas, and with Markel Smith, who wrote the episodes and was very talented, was let's not shoot in sound stages. Let's not make parking lots look like forests, but let's go up into the mountains.

Yeah, it was a massive job. You know, a movie, a big movie is generally like 85-day shoot. American Primeval was 145-day shoot. And I had one of my ideas, and with Markel Smith, who wrote the episodes and was very talented, was let's not shoot in sound stages. Let's not make parking lots look like forests, but let's go up into the mountains.

And in this case, we went up onto some different Indian reservations in New Mexico. And we're like, let's really go out there for 145 days. Let's do it. This is all prior to us going out and actually doing it. And it's kind of like, be careful what you ask for. You're actually really fucking on the mountain for 145 days. And there's lightning storms and snow storms and wind storms.

And in this case, we went up onto some different Indian reservations in New Mexico. And we're like, let's really go out there for 145 days. Let's do it. This is all prior to us going out and actually doing it. And it's kind of like, be careful what you ask for. You're actually really fucking on the mountain for 145 days. And there's lightning storms and snow storms and wind storms.

And in this case, we went up onto some different Indian reservations in New Mexico. And we're like, let's really go out there for 145 days. Let's do it. This is all prior to us going out and actually doing it. And it's kind of like, be careful what you ask for. You're actually really fucking on the mountain for 145 days. And there's lightning storms and snow storms and wind storms.