Westerns can do all of it, of us. Celebrated actress Heather Graham can as effectively, by the way in which. Relationship again to the times of Twin Peaks and Drugstore Cowboy, Graham has graced the display screen through an enormous array of tasks, dabbling in just about each movie style. That features the Western style, each in 2024 when MovieWeb spoke with Graham about Place of Bones, and now as the feminine lead in one more Western, Gunslingers. The brand new movie additionally stars Nicolas Cage and Stephen Dorff — the latter of whom performs her romantic curiosity of types.
Gunslingers lays out a posh backstory involving Graham’s character Val and Dorff’s gunman persona, Thomas — who has a felony brother within the combine named Robert (Jeremy Kent Jackson). Including gasoline to the fireplace, Robert additionally has love ties to Val. So, why not have all of them reunite in a bloodthirsty Kentucky city, which units the stage for the bullet-laced occasions of the movie? “There is a love triangle… between the 2 brothers and my character,” Graham defined to MovieWeb. She broke it down for us:
“Jeremy’s character has all the time felt a bit jealous and probably inferior to Stephen Dorff’s character. And I believe that, provided that I used to be initially with [Thomas], after which he was in hassle and ran off, after which I ended up with [Robert], that there is this sort of pressure between them. And sadly, I believe [Robert] grew to become an increasing number of abusive as he bought older, and my character — I actually need to get away from him to guard my daughter and to guard myself, however I am actually making an attempt to reconnect with [Thomas] as a result of I believe within the story, he is the love of my life. And I believe I used to be instructed that he was lifeless. After which after I uncover that he is actually alive, I am simply doing all the pieces I can to attempt to discover him.”
On That Billion-Greenback Verdict Towards Director James Toback
Gunslingers
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April 11, 2025
- Director
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Brian Skiba
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Randall Batinkoff, Jamie R. Thompson
Graham’s performing profession stretches again a long time, having labored with quite a lot of big-name administrators. One such director, James Toback, has been within the information not too long ago, as a jury reached a verdict that Toback should pay out $1.68 billion after 40 ladies got here ahead alleging sexual assault. Graham starred in his 1997 movie Two Guys and a Man alongside Robert Downey Jr.
“It is good seeing folks that do issues unsuitable get in hassle. I like that. It makes me really feel good as a girl,” stated Graham in reacting to the Toback information. “I had an agent… and he had numerous sexual harassment prices. And I believe he bought off, which is upsetting, but it surely’s good to see these folks get in hassle, as a result of after I got here up within the enterprise, there have been only a few folks getting in hassle. It is good to see a few of these folks truly get in hassle… Good for all of the folks that got here ahead. It is onerous for ladies to come back ahead in conditions like that, so I like any girl who’s keen to come back ahead with these form of tales.”
Catch Graham in her newest standout function as a robust feminine in an in any other case male-dominated western. From Lionsgate, Gunslingers is now accessible in theaters, on demand and on digital.