I walked quite a ways for the one take, then I dropped the pack to the ground and jumped feet first into the Platte. I did this scene carrying 200 pounds of furs on my back, with a band over my forehead to hold the load in place. I had no idea he was paying us a surprise visit. Q: Tell me about meeting James Michener (author of the novel on which the miniseries "Centennial" was based).Ī: We were on the Platte River. In his low-key way, he knew how to organize a production with hundreds of speaking parts, countless locations, often in desolate territory. In retrospect, hardly the chosen one to make such an epic about the American West.Ī: John was magnificent because he was so unassuming. Q: When John Wilder was producing episodes of "The Streets of San Francisco," I knew him to be an unassuming, soft-spoken man. But I had a speech specialist at my side all day long listening to every word I said, correcting me until I got it right. Q: The part called for a French Canadian accent.Ī: Very hard. Q: Pasquinel is one of the first frontiersmen to bring positive values to the early relationship between the white man and the Indian.Ī: And he's full of energy and life, and he loves the women, and he's bursting at the seams.
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