Tracy Letts

And Duvall had done American Buffalo on Broadway with John Savage.

So there's a relationship there.

Gail Youngs is also in the movie.

Stoneboy is close to something really good.

I don't think it gets there.

It's got some thematic challenges, but it's close to something good.

Now, it starts earlier than that, of course, with Tomorrow or something along those lines.

But with Tender Mercies, you start to enter a period where—

The rural Duval starts to make really regular appearances.

And movies like Tender Mercies and The Stone Boy, there was a kind of rural or country domestic drama that we used to make in this country a lot and that we stopped making.

And I don't know where they went.

Did they go to

Did they go to Netflix?

Did they go – they're playing – I think so.

Taylor Sheridan, very much operating in that space.

I think it's a real shame, and I don't want to – as a good old –

hearty lefty liberal, don't want to take the blame for the divide in this country.

But I think that the fact that we stopped telling those stories hasn't been great.

And yet this family is Montana or Wyoming.

And so he's a rural guy.