American Primeval
‘American Primeval’ Team on Portraying the Brutal History of America’s Westward Expansion: “The Truth of This World Is Violent”
Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Irene Bedard, Kim Coates, Derek Hinkey and more discuss the show's approach to fact and fiction, particularly in its depiction of violence: “We are holding up something of a mirror.”
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‘American Primeval’ Director Peter Berg on Finale Deaths, the Prequel Spinoff He’s Considering and ‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot
Berg also responds to criticisms of the representation of Mormon church leader Brigham Young and the line he wouldn’t cross when it came to violence depicted in the events surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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How ‘American Primeval’ Pulled Off That Scalping Scene
Star Dane DeHaan and makeup department head Howard Berger explain how they and special makeup effects artist Jamie Kelman pulled off the Frankenstein look of a scalped Mormon settler and his rotting head following a wagon train massacre: "I wanted to destroy him from the outside."
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‘American Primeval’ Review: Betty Gilpin Leads Netflix’s Relentlessly Brutal Peter Berg-Helmed Western Miniseries
Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.
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Netflix Western ‘American Primeval’ Challenges Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin to Survive in Trailer
The streamer's fictional limited series from Pete Berg, Mark L. Smith and Eric Newman is set in the brutal American frontier of 1857.
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