Juliette Lewis Talks Working With Peter Dinklage in ‘The Thicket’ and Explains Her Surprise Exit From ‘Yellowjackets’: ‘I’m Good for a Series for Two Seasons’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Juliette Lewis has a very good reason why her horseback ridings skills are so impressive in her new thriller, “The Thicket.” “I’m a third-place ribbon barrel racer,” Lewis says on this week’s episode of “Just for Variety.” “I was an equestrian.
I grew up riding horses before I was 12. So the first thing we did in Calgary [where the movie was shot in the dead of winter] was get on a horse.
They wanted to check us out, how you rode. I got a very good rating with my horse riding.” In the Elliott Lester-directed movie (in theaters Sept.
6), based on Joe R. Lansdale’s book of the same name, Lewis plays Cut Throat Bill, a violent hardened outlaw at the turn of the 20th century who kidnaps a young girl (Esmé Creed-Miles ).
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