Watch: Kurt Russell loves the Western genre of 'Bone Tomahawk'
Santa Claus may be the bearded guy who owns Christmas, but this holiday season Kurt Russell is the bearded guy who owns the Western genre. He plays a bounty hunter among a group of miscreants in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight (in theaters Friday) and a sheriff who rounds up a posse of gunslingers to take care of some pesky cannibal savages in Bone Tomahawk (out on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday).
In this exclusive behind-the-scenes Tomahawk clip, the cast — including Russell, Matthew Fox, Patrick Wilson and Richard Jenkins — discuss why they were attracted to director S. Craig Zahler's movie. (Really, it had us at "cannibal savages.")
When we talked to Russell recently, he told us Bone Tomahawk was appealing because of working with Jenkins, a neato screenplay and a chance to work in a genre that he's always loved:
"I’m comfortable in that environment, and now I’m at the time in my life where I'm not shying away from doing something two, three, four times in a genre. I don’t care, I’ll go do another Western if I see one that's really good come along whereas 20 years ago, I would have not wanted to do something back to back. I would have really tried to avoid doing Bone Tomahawk and then Hateful Eight."