I: Some of the scenes, especially in the canoes - was that really you guys? I am just concerned that whoever is doing it is pulling their weight. I've always been into that, ever since I was a kid. I said "You know what? MP: As you know, our web site centers on The Last of the Mohicans. He didn't socialize. Available - Free Downloads Only! I think a lot of them are. A few final comments. That's good because anything that can you know what I'm into in? Guide book STILL
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Hollywood will flog it to death. And you take care of yourself Whew! Eric Schweig was born in Inuvik, Canada, on 19 June 1967. No problem. I spent thousands of dollars at the Asheville Mall. We have feasts around here and they eat first. They don't have anybody to talk to and nobody to listen to them. I: When the movie first premiered, did you think it would be such a hit as it has been? He is such an integral part of our favorite movie. ES: Well, no. I love. Yeah, it's the most horrible death scene that I've ever done. ES: Well, the doors are opening now. You know, you gotta start somewhere and they're starting small but they're starting. As expected, we found ourselves liking him a great deal, and we quickly came to a mutually agreeable arrangement for displaying his work. The effect of the battle between you and Magua was very dramatic. And, hang out with my girlfriend. There was a real enthusiasm projected when discussing his masks. Over near Lake James. I was adopted at six months of age. I'm not trying to be antagonistic. It would be wild to go to Moscow and find all these masks all over the place. [Sad voice. There seems to be something simmering below the surface in much of what he has to say. That's why we had, sometimes, 15 or 16 hour days. I also am an adult survivor of abuse by my adoptive parents. Yeah, she was younger and a little more easier going so you could rap with her about more things than with Madeleine Stowe. I don't know what Russell's up to. Does he realize that all history is written from a viewpoint? ES: Tell them, "Thanks for your support. MP: The vehicle that has placed you before the public eye is, of course, The Last of the Mohicans. What did you guys feel, or you personally, when you were filming those scenes? I: Well, I was thinking more along the lines of your [??] I told everybody right from the beginning, listen man.. we better take advantage of this while it lasts because they're gonna flog it to death. I really like it and I love shopping there. ES: Well .. it was more or less just business to me because nothing's ever historically correct. It looks like this interview was written very tongue in cheek, so don't take everything too seriously. I like walking with my gun and my dogs in the woods near here. GATHERINGS ||
Eric Schweig makes for a dashing Joseph Brandt, the young Iroquois all the girls swoon over. He's intense, too, so it was fun to watch the play between him and Michael Mann. ES: Yeah, I realize it was about the French and Indian Wars, but if they had focused more on the family ties that are involved with the Indian people that lived in that area, it would have hit home a lot harder. MP: He's been real busy.. doing quite well. And I was told at 7 a.m. the next morning that I was hired! That's Andy Fraser. All the sets all the scenes a thousand extras at any given time running all over the place. E: No, I didn't. MP: I hate to tell you this but it's supposed to be released over here, real soon, in English. Perhaps much is taken out of context. E: Oh, that was the hardest time anyone ever had. AMERICAN HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS
E: Michael Mann was running around behind everyone in the editing room making them do it shouting, "What are you doing?". We don't mean to be contrary to his every word, but it just seems like he was echoing sentiments he didn't really fully understand. It's sort of, if you think about it, it kind of leaves the audience going, "How did all these guys
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The James Fenimore Cooper book was fiction! MP: Yeah! E: I don't mix with other actors. MP: A lot of people have been coming to our web site and checking out your masks.
That was fun. MP: Yeah, Chimney Rock. What was the most trying on you personally? I was homeless when I was a kid. E: Yes, it was. MP: So, on the set then, he would just do a scene and then go off by himself? Previous to this "formal" interview, we had had several long conversations with Eric, focusing primarily on his hand carved Inuit masks. All I expect from anybodyand this is what I like about Blackstoneis that people on the show can do their job. It will be cool because it will be the first time I'll be on a set and.. abstaining. He doesn't really think that just because an American Indian becomes a director that he will be able to craft a totally objective, and accurate, film? MP: I imagine they do! I told Vern about that. ES: Yeah, absolutely. You know what? I: Do you think it's promoting your career in the way you would like it to? I: Yes, it does. You know .. they just did whatever they had to do. ES: First of all, sober as a judge. effects - without our expressed, written permission, constitutes copyright
It starts with the individual person. But I made the bottom of the mask protrude a little bit more. MP: Do you think society all societies. have lost their sense of nurturing and protecting. or seeing children for what they are? ES: Yeah. They can get egotistical. So. you know, we've got to take advantage of it and they'll have nothing left short of Last of the Dog Men which is a ludicrous concept for a film about
Deidre phoned me up and told me . it's a contemporary thing where I play a sheriff. I guess it turned out alright. As award-winning actor Eric Schweig led a column of mourners yesterday to a sunburned patch of grass at Vancouver's Grandview Park (the place where a man called Curtis Brick spent his dying moments) the drama seemed like a movie scene.. S chweig has, in fact, appeared in similar scenes on screen many times.. A carver and actor born in Nunavut, Schweig's credits track like a highlight reel of . private or he was. But when someone shouts at me, I shout back! MP: What WAS filmed? I: How did you get on with the rest of the cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jodhi May and Russell Means? Would it be as you just described .. to retake possession of them? MP: Okay. He was somewhat reticent, probably because of the time lapse, about
MP: Yeah, it was a good scene. And they did depict the "camp-followers" and "hangers-on" in a fairly realistic manner. My birth name is Ray Dean Thrasher while my adopted legal name is Eric Kurt Schweig. Col. Dave Webster runs this thing out of Columbus,
You know, even though they stole them, they kept them in excellent condition to put on the front of this book so you can duplicate it. 30 below weather. Or maybe it would be a
ES: Uhmm. No, it wasn't a sex scene. Do you really feel as though you're making a departure from yourself? And we have hired more Native journalists in the past year than any news organization and with your help we will continue to grow and create career paths for our people. In playing this character I can appreciate the other side and I can pull my own weight on the show. They said "We'll miss you!" Certainly, we have a new found appreciation for interviewers! [More laughter]. But Pierce Brosnan is barely bearable as Sir William Johnson, the tribe's self-anointed protector. I was born in Inuvik NWT in 1967 and moved south to Ontario with my adoptive family in the early 70s. He is of mixed race ( Inuvialuk, Chippewa - Dene and German). Year by year. Anyway, Vern picked it up one day and said "Hey, this is wild, man. I wish they wouldn't. time or was it just.. you know, "I'm just doing this"? (A boyish laughter interrupts the train of thought.). So, by the time
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ES: Yes, I'd rather be seen as an individual who chooses acting as a profession. I have done bit parts in Bordertown and The Black Stallion. All of our content is free. ES: I liked the ledge we were shooting on. Until Indian people can gain something of a creative role, then the cold hard facts about that, is that you need money. He headed to the big screen following his Broadway performances. So finally, after three or four years of screwing around I got around to it. SCRIPT ||
He was into powder rifles and stuff like that. Eric Schweig and Arye Gross in "Big Eden." Out gay filmmaker Thomas Bezucha has a new film, "Let Him Go," now out in theaters. You have to sit down and focus. We don't want to attack his words. Or, at least wonder why he says it! I: Did you have to be really physically fit? ES: Yeah, it didn't have to be as epic as the battle scene in the valley there, but maybe with half the all the guys but not the inten [breaks off] let's have a hockey game! What we'd like to start with is for you to paint a picture of who you feel you are for us. MP: It is really scary to be a parent now. But, take yourself. Copyright ? That's where their home is and we're fighting over her
So, no, not to me. understanding of who Eric is. He's a hard worker. of symbolic imagery. It's cool, everything's cool. well, it's getting better,
ES: Basically, yeah. That's what these guys do in the movies. I believe you have been growing it for eight years? Their living conditions were bad, like one loo [bathroom] for 400 guys. We have this image of . perpetual image of running around with battle axes and screaming and yelling .. and running around in loin cloths and hats. I forgot his name MP: Yes . this is one of the masks in his so called "collection"? It was great. E: I got along with everybody! In an interview with ICTMN, Schweig discussed life experiences that have helped him to play his role in Blackstone, his belief in giving back to the community, and how he has obtained such success in his career. their heart.. and it's pretty wild to watch them do these kind of things.. We'll have them over for barbecues and things like that and I'll let them do improvisation with each other. MP: Why did you specifically choose the Inuit Spirit masks as the subject of your carvings? As a former foster child himself, he knows all too well the obstacles that youth can face when growing up in care. When Dances With Wolves came out, the whole thing, it just blew the doors wide open for period pieces about Indian people. I've been around horses. Making it more subtle? Well, like I said, Red River has received a lot of attention in Europe and people have described it as beautiful. 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. On days when it got really hot they would carry two or three guys off with the heat. They scratched the money together and made T-shirts. Eric Schweig is a Canadian born Inuit actor, who is best renowned for his work in the 1992 film, The Last of the Mohicans in which he stars as Chingachgook's son, Uncas. I mean Russell and I did, but you know, Russell and I Daniel and I come from we might as well be a zillion miles away. Your masks are recreations of traditional ceremonial masks of the Inuit. to see that kind of ugliness but it's the truth. And, if there should be any activism it should be to talk to kids you see, if you're going to solve a lot of the problems within the Indian community, as far as civil
He kicked off his acting career in 1985 as a cast member of the theatrical show, The Cradle Will Fall, produced at the Actor's Lab by the Theatre of Change. 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. We, and certainly your fans, appreciate it.
ES: Yeah. It was probably [name omitted] He's the 1st AD. Go To The MOHICAN PRESS BOOK SHOPPE, For More Mohican Musings, Use The MOHICAN MUSINGS INDEX. You were cut by a Huron. MP: Supposedly.. Uncas was. He'd rap with the extras and . anybody who was around. All they want to do is restrict native roles to native people. A third manolder, earringed and wearing an indigo shirtappears to be after the two younger men, who pause to scope the object of their pursuit. E: I had fun, really. If you cultivate that, when he is 30 years old he would be the best possible asset for his community. That Cooper's "history" was, in many ways, stunningly accurate? We actually talked them out of that! If he is going to have all his hair there, then we should, too!" He seems like a good guy. E: No, I haven't. If that's all you can get then, yeah, that's a problem. MP: As far as roles go; is there any particular type of film you would like.. or any particular character you would want to play? You know, what goes around comes around. ES: Yeah. Is that something you had experience with before? that would be upsetting, too. Our intent is not to criticize or alienate, rather to wonder why? Interview with Eric: All of this info came from an interview (my interview form) on May 2nd 2000. celebrity. MESSAGE BOARD, STOREFRONTS! I don't think he plays but he'd like to
Yeah, you know, I am a good guy. Just a chance to. you can see it in them.. certain monologues that hit home with them. 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. I love jamming. Yeah, I love playing blues. So, by the time
MP: There was a strong feeling of familial bond between your character, Uncas, your older step-brother Hawkeye, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, and your father Chingachgook, played by Russell Means. MP: Well, having been here already, would you ever want to revisit western North Carolina, the scene of the crime? anti-anybody. Right THERE! Where as Indian people, for the most part, everybody listens to their elders, everybody takes care of them. So, they did film something and obviously you
It's pretty cool, and that's part of the whole process. I keep trying to get people to get into acting so we have someone who can focus on just being a funny guy or a bad guy or a psycho or a love interest. Certainly, we have a new found appreciation for interviewers! GATHERINGS ||
Your character, Hawkeye, and Chingachgook. there seemed a sense of family. E: No, I don't! Other than that, everybody got along. Eric Schweig (born Ray Dean Thrasher; 19 June 1967 [1]) is an Indigenous Canadian actor best known for his role as Chingachgook 's son Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans (1992). Each mask represented various animals and they contained a lot
Cause they just kind of stuck us in this little part of the field, when in the 1700s there was a thousand guys on the damn field guys getting killed, bones being broken. Perhaps things were twisted by the editing of the interview. If there's any kind of panic, it started at the top with the producers. Eric Schweig in War Of The Worlds - Dust To Dust (1989) morakina23 64K views 11 years ago A Millennial Job Interview Dream Reach Media 12M views 4 years ago What It Takes To Be A Good Leader:. I used to hate it but I got used to them after awhile. Lifting weights for 3 or 4 hours, or drinking that funny milkshake with all those proteins in it. I love working with everyone on it. People, Indian or otherwise, are not born to hate each other. You know Wes Studi's got his own film company and he's doing . [Wardancer Film Group]
out but don't stay out too late. They made me dive from one canoe to another. Filled up with all those bodies in there.. in the fort. So, what they would like to know is what would
Apparently they're shooting in Washington State. They sort of fashioned him after Tony Soprano, I think. MOVIE TITLE: The Last of the Mohicans. They were the stars so they acted accordingly. Powwow Trail (2001- ) Episode: White Man's Indian mask each and every time? The scenes the way it was shot. But they didn't want to shave his hair, so they gave into us. MENUS! RIGHTS RESERVED - Use of material elsewhere - including text, images, and
MP: When you watch the movie it seems as though you guys had bonded. ES: Yeah.it's a.. yeah. MOHICANS
You know.. just in town here, right beside the baseball field.. and this is a small town, there's about 10,000 people. right beside the ball field, this young girl, about a year and
you've got Scots running around half naked and even in a period piece about Indians, just take The Last of the Mohicans for example .. You've got European born actors recreating roles from over 200 years ago. We were shooting assault shotguns together, and flintlocks, and hanging out getting to know each other. Does he realize war and violence do really take place, even though we are "not born to hate each other"? Support Indian Country Today for as little as $10. He's a really funny guy. If they were operable it would have been more fun. EARLY
Did you enjoy being in the midst of all that awesome scenery and wilderness? MP: He's got quite a reputation for really getting into his roles. It would have been really cool if they had made it a little more sprawling. Although at one point they wanted to shave everybody's hair off. We found the one-year teacher retention rate at GDL in 2010-2011 was 79%; Green Dot Locke teachers, overall, were more highly educated than their . Eric was forthcoming and, we believe, candid in his responses; gracious, and willing to discuss everything we asked. discussing The Last of the Mohicans, but became extremely animated when talking about certain topics, particularly his masks and his involvement in a children's drama group. MENUS! Also the music by Daniel Lanois, a French-Canadian composer. seen any film maker come up with. The point is that it's not really
A lot of people said, "Why were you running up the hill when you hardly exchange a glance with the girl". MP: Where as a well made period piece, showing history as realistically as can be, is good. You have to have some sort of sympathy or empathy for villains like otherwise. A GUEST AT THE GREAT MOHICAN GATHERING OF 1999. We hung out with him a lot. A war between blue coats and Indians. I: Now to the slew of questions! And we didn't finish till, I don't know, 11, 12 something like that, anyway. ES: Yeah, it's a drag man, our children usually wind up paying the price for society's sins. It's going to be released here so just brace yourself. Did you feel close? It's retarded. No, we don't have "Red River"! That
But Russell Means (Chingachgook) said, "NO, I'm an Indian. Anyway, we were all downtown. friendly towards each other or any of that. We were pleased with the results and hope you are too. It's become a horrible reality. Usually they paved the way so we didn't have much of a problem. But when Daniel walks into the Huron village he almost gets his brains knocked out. He was just all work, then go home. ES: Yes! I work with sex trade workers and I try to hook them up with agencies that can help them. Join Stevie, comedic director "Steelbird" and his "assistant" real life movie star Eric Schweig as they present these incredible live performances, in-depth artist interviews and hilarious comedic backstage antics with featured artists. like a sauna in the summertime. Was it meant to be like that? Besides that, North Carolina is
[Laughing! It would never have happened! MP: She's working with you with these kids? life cycle. 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? MP: You know, in some ways though, contemporary pieces are worse because they're filled with all sorts of horrors and things that wouldn't happen in a million years. ES: I got along with Russell. Guide book STILL
It'll probably never happen, but if it came around, I would. We hope all who read this feel they've gained more insight, or a better
Well, I did in '92. I think, anyway. And I just like the idea of, like I said before [in a previous conversation], reaching back into time and duplicating the mask and taking them back from the people who stole
ES: Well, as long as it doesn't come over this way! We had a really deep love scene in the cave and they cut that out completely. MP: I understand you worked with horses in that film. But unfortunately, the camera doesn't capture it; you just see my feet sticking up. No one really knows, it should have gone in there Hopefully, it will be on the extended version when it's on video. ES: Yeah, start sending out pamphlets to customs [Laughs], just to tell them . MP: Okay. Put us into 1992 along with everyone else. You can't put some little guy next to someone like Daniel Day-Lewis. Where's Marion? They promote it. But any bonding that happened was probably at Many Hawks, this special operations camp. Indians.. one of the worst. There are some we really WISH we asked. E: Pretty good, thank you! You're always poor. Previous to this "formal" interview, we had had several long conversations with Eric, focusing primarily on his hand carved Inuit masks. We realize many of you are huge Eric Schweig fans. 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: Alice, played by Jodhi May, was obviously your love interest. Sitting out there in a big flotilla and it was really windy. With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CRESST researchers conducted a multi-year evaluation of a major school reform project at Alain Leroy Locke High School, historically one of California's lowest performing secondary schools. That would've been really cool if they'd have done that. E: Yes, but I got restless. MP: Okay, many people are sincerely anxious to see you in more films. MOHICAN PRESS
E: No, I don't think so at all. unless they start writing scripts about contemporary things. ES: Actually, about three or four years ago I was sitting around the house with Vern Etzerza and, what's the name of the book? I: You mentioned earlier about your hair. It comes from people not talking to their elders and not listening to them. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. She was pretty nice, Jodhi's mom. Interviewing is something we hadn't done
Did you ever get a feeling of really being in that
MP: We've read that you have been involved in a children's drama group. MP: Okay! I: Was it all shot outdoors or were there any indoor shots, i.e., like the cabin scene? MP: Well, what I mean is that you guys, in the movie of course, went through every possible trial and tribulation. Things like that, you know, the time of day or whatever, but .. if you mean were we planning to strike up a business or something or go skydiving, or meet each other's family .. it was nothing
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You know? Yeah, they cut that out, they must have. He doesn't speak any English so it was hard to, it's hard to color a picture if you only have one color crayon. 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
Zusammenfassung: An interview with the director of the series. You've given a positive image of a Native American. I thought it would stink! ES: Well, that's hard to say because mostly all I did was run. This may be bad energy but it is energy nonetheless and that is power. 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. Thanks, Eric. So we can .. now we have them. The battle scenes were spectacular! You know. psychopaths running around. What I thought about the movie was that it was sprawling. Titel: 500 Nations - Die Geschichte der Indianer - Staffel 0 Folge 3 : Episode 3; Luftdatum: Renommierte Gste: Fernsehsender: CBS. ES: Well, we did boycott the set one day because all the extras were getting shit on. I can't remember which scene it was. A film that tries to cover too much historical ground at least 40 years in too little screen time and winds up becoming a bore because of it. ES: No. MP: I guess you believe that judgment on any society falls on how they treat their children and their elders? get here?" Mohican Press - ALL
One of our problems is finding a voice and speaking up, speaking out really loud too, if you want to. You should do a mask. If you're ever in Asheville, there's a guy that ran the restaurant downstairs from the hotel. What am I doing working in the movies? MP: You're welcome. It's absurd. [Laughter] "Hold on! Tell us about Andy Fraser, the character you're playing. I just wish this had a bit more exposure down in the States. Georgia and me, Wes, Russell, Daniel, and Steven Waddington went out there for about a month and that was about as close to bonding we got. "ALL THESE CHARACTERS ARE BASED ON FICTION!". MP: And as opposed to what you do .. acting . doesn't that put you in the spotlight? I. It's all hard to fathom it goes against our grain. He is a film critic and writes the #NativeNerd column. They reminded me of me.
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