{"id":659776,"date":"2025-03-31T22:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/1923-star-on-his-savage-sendoff-i-always-thought-i-would-get-an-extraordinary-demise\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T22:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:58:17","slug":"1923-star-on-his-savage-sendoff-i-always-thought-i-would-get-an-extraordinary-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/1923-star-on-his-savage-sendoff-i-always-thought-i-would-get-an-extraordinary-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20181923\u2019 Star on His Savage Sendoff: \u201cI Always Thought I Would Get an Extraordinary Demise\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t[This story contains major spoilers from the penultimate episode of\u00a01923<\/em>\u00a0season two, \u201cThe Mountain Teeth of Monsters<\/strong>.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe darkness cannot hide from the light. And I am the light.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThose are the words spoken by\u00a0Father Renaud (Sebastian Roch\u00e9) when the priest finally stands before protagonist Teonna Rainwater (Aminah Nieves) with a gun to her head in the penultimate episode of 1923<\/em> season two. <\/p>\n

\n\tSince season one, Father Renaud has been hunting Teonna, the Native girl who escaped his Indian assimilation\u00a0boarding school and left murdered nuns (including Jennifer Ehle) in her wake. He spent the majority of this season tracking Teonna on horseback alongside Marshall Kent (Jamie McShane). When he finally finds her, thanks to a lit campfire \u2014 after killing Kent over the murder of Teonna\u2019s love, Pete Plenty Clouds (Jeremy Gauna) \u2014 Renaud shoots Teonna\u2019s father, Runs His Horse (Michael Spears), and demands Teonna repent for her sins before he kills her, too.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut even in what she believes to be her final moment, Teonna will not relent. A survivor ever since the Taylor Sheridan series<\/a> began telling her story from inside the abusive halls of the reservation school, she refuses to repeat her former headmaster\u2019s words. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am trying to save your soul, and to free you from eternal perdition! \u2026 You are renouncing salvation!\u201d he screams, nearly combusting at the seams of his cloth. \u201cI\u2019m not sorry. You be sorry. You beg for forgiveness. \u2026 I renounce it!\u201d she counters. When Renaud pulls the trigger and realizes he is out of bullets, Teonna pounces on the priest. She burns his face with coal from the fire, violently stabs him with a knife and then shoots him twice point-blank.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoch\u00e9 tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> that he always expected an \u201cextraordinary demise\u201d for his villainous character, who was crafted by Sheridan from real-life U.S. history and the government-funded, often church-run Indian boarding\u00a0schools\u00a0of the 19th and 20th centuries. The episode\u2019s director, Ben Richardson, wanted his death scene to be as \u201csavage as possible,\u201d he says, which led to Roch\u00e9 being armed with body pads so scene partner Nieves \u201ccould really go at it\u201d with the (fake) knife, he says. \u201cI was like, \u2018Just go for it.\u2019 I really wanted it to be violent. I think my death was well deserved!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, Roch\u00e9 describes filming his death scene (\u201cIf we were in a movie theater, people would be clapp<\/a>ing\u201d) and unpacks Renaud\u2019s \u201cobsession\u201d with Teonna, who is now mourning her father and the love of her life as she\u2019s forced to rise from literal ashes as she and the rest of the cast head into what is sure to be an epic conclusion to season two. With this week\u2019s penultimate episode killing off seven characters, what do we expect from next week\u2019s finale? Roch\u00e9 offers his tease below.<\/p>\n

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\n\tI know that you as a cast didn\u2019t know what was going to happen in season two when you were making season one. But did you always assume that your Father Renaud would get an epic death?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWell, it seemed to me that\u2019s what was deserved for the character. I always thought that I would get an extraordinary demise, and I have to admit that I wasn\u2019t disappointed. It was really the demise I was wanting for the character. I was hoping it would happen later in the season, which is what happened, because I go through this incredible journey to get to my ultimate goal. Then when I saw the written scenes, I thought, \u201cWow, my god, this is really exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWe saw more depth this season to Father Renaud, beyond the brutal headmaster he was in season one. He has this moment earlier in the episode where he kills Kent for killing Pete Plenty Clouds. He served up some justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI wouldn\u2019t say that Renaud evolves in season two, but I think the man changes because of the environment that he\u2019s in. It\u2019s something that he\u2019s not familiar with. That happens when you are thrust into the wilderness; wilderness changes you. Marshall Kent becomes the sort of primary antagonist in season two until, of course, this episode. What\u2019s really interesting is Father Renaud has a mirror in front of him of what an individual can do in his moment of evil, and I think that\u2019s what\u2019s really fascinating. Does he start doubting his actions? No. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhat I find really interesting in his relationship with Marshall Kent is \u2026 is he killing him because he suddenly has a surge of humanity? I don\u2019t think so. I think it\u2019s because Marshall Kent is wasting time. This is a means to an end. Renaud\u2019s primary goal is an obsession \u2014 and I really want to highlight the word \u201cobsession.\u201d There is a real obsession with Teonna Rainwater. The only person who really has stood up to him, the person who has basically done what no other person has ever done in his realm inside the residential school.<\/p>\n

\n\tI think that leads to a form of admiration and love in a way, an obsession within his character. As I say in the scene with Marshall Kent, \u201cWe are here to find a murderer. We\u2019re not here to waste time killing other people.\u201d So everything is a means to an end. There is something really diabolical about that. People might think that he\u2019s changing, but I think the purpose and the evil is still within him, motivating him towards his end goal.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThere is a real obsession with Teonna Rainwater. The only person who really has stood up to him,\u201d says Sebastian Roch\u00e9 of Father Renaud, pictured here hunting her earlier in season two.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLauren Smith\/Paramount+<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tIn his final confrontation with Teonna, he\u2019s screaming at her that he\u2019s trying to save her. In that moment when she defies him, you almost looked ready to combust.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tHe cannot believe that he\u2019s being resisted. Ego and extremism go hand in hand. What I find really interesting in [1923<\/em> creator] Taylor [Sheridan]\u2019s writing is how he puts in little ideas about extremism and religion, and it\u2019s true when you combine that with this motivation for vengeance and his obsession for Teonna. I think he fantasizes about her giving in, bringing her back and I don\u2019t know what he wants to do with her. There is something sick within the mind of his individual. <\/p>\n

\n\tThrough the journey, you see his mind start to waver. <\/strong>I think it\u2019s a dissent into madness. If you are a rock climber, when I get to the top, there is this adrenaline rush exultation. With Father Renaud, what I find fascinating in that scene is that he really believes she\u2019s going to give in. He really believes that the word of god is going to win over who he considers to be someone unworthy. \u201cI\u2019m trying to save you. I\u2019m the good guy here\u201d \u2014 when he is anything but, like anyone who is an extremist. But what is fascinating is that he believes he\u2019s right. To the end, he believes he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd the fact that Teonna rejects him is something that is tragically of our time and has been for women. When a woman resists a man, not only sexually, there is condemnation and violence. This is the embodiment of this, within his mix of ego and extremism. It\u2019s such an extraordinary moment. I think my death was well deserved!<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd it comes <\/strong>with the death of another character, which is really tragic, that nobody expected to happen, including me. I was reading the script and I was like, \u201cBoy, are you fucking kidding me?\u201d I expected my death, but not his death.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince so many people die in this episode \u2014 seven in total \u2014 are you referring to Jack Dutton\u2019s death (played by Darren Mann)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYes, Jack\u2019s death. And I was also surprised that I actually kill Sir Runs His Horse [played by Michael Spears]. I stayed on set when Aminah has that scene [by the fire] with [her dad], which was heartbreaking. It was such an extraordinary moment between the two of them because they had such a bond as friends, actors and artists. When you play\u00a0someone\u2019s father, it creates a bond. And actually Aminah and I are very, very good friends and it really helped in our performance. The exchange that we had was really, really rich and really wonderful.<\/p>\n

\n\tI want to ask you about the logistics of your death scene. First, Teonna (Nieves) burns your face. Then she stabs you multiple times, before shooting you for good measure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYes, the moment. We had to shoot my death after we\u2019d done that [confrontation] scene. She takes something and pushes it into my face. We actually had makeup put a contraption that was fixed onto my face and had a remote control. That\u2019s why my face is lit up. It\u2019s not CGI. It lit up and created this truly incredibly dramatic moment. It was really amazing. <\/p>\n

\n\tWe shot the first part where I\u2019m trying to shoot her, then called cut and I went into makeup. [Ben] Richardson, the director \u2014 our unbelievable director, really the best director I\u2019ve worked with in my career \u2014 he really wanted the scene to be as savage as possible with my death. First she burns my face, then I get stabbed. Then she shoots him and I found that so appropriate \u2014 it\u2019s the man who would never die. He\u2019s like a cockroach. It was a really, really intense moment. I saw the episode and I\u2019m very impressed at the way it was filmed and handled. We were both very, very emotional in that scene.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd that was you as well while she was stabbing you, or was that a stunt double?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt was me. It was with a fake [knife]. I was wearing a pad all across my body so that she could really go at it. I was like, \u201cJust go for it.\u201d I really wanted it to be violent. Ben wanted it to be as violent as possible. If we were in a movie theater, people would be clapping, I think. I wish this series would be shown in a movie theater because it really deserves it. Every episode felt like being on the set of a big movie.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMichael Spears as Runs His Horse (left) sleeping beside daughter Teonna, played by Aminah Nieves, moments before Father Renaud (Sebastian Roch\u00e9) sneaks up on them. \u201cI like to imagine that our deaths are going to be something that is a springboard for her to continue on the legacy of our people,\u201d Spears told THR<\/em> in a separate interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLauren Smith\/Paramount+<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tDid you film your character\u2019s death and Michael Spears\u2019 death as Runs His Horse chronologically in the same day?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt was the same day. And the interesting thing about this scene is that we shot on a soundstage, which is a credit to the production design. Every time I walked in a new location, I would go over to the production designers and set dresses and congratulate them and tell them, \u201cYou cannot realize how brilliant you are and how it makes our jobs so much easier.\u201d And same with Janie Bryant\u2019s costumes. They dress the soundstage like the planes of Amarillo, Texas, which makes it so much easier to do the scene because on the soundstage you don\u2019t have the constraints of the outdoors, like the wind, rain or whatever.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd so Michael Spears was there. I felt terrible that I killed Michael\u2019s character, as I felt terrible about killing anyone \u2014 except for Marshall Kent. (Laughs<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\n\tWas it emotional when you wrapped since it was the final shot for both of you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYes. When we did this scene, we were in the heights of emotion. We were crying. Even my character, you can\u2019t see it too much because we were in the dark, but we were highly emotional. You work yourself up into that extreme emotion. You can take off the mask after people yell \u201ccut,\u201d but it stays with you. The emotion was one of great satisfaction because we succeeded in what we wanted to do in that scene. I think the scene, even though violent, is beautiful. It\u2019s beautifully crafted and filmed. I\u2019m very, very happy with the results. So there\u2019s this extreme satisfaction as an artist and as an actor, mixed with emotion.<\/p>\n

\n\tTeonna has been a hero of 1923<\/em>, an endless survivor. She\u2019s just lost her father and the love of her life. But killing your character frees her in a way that she hasn\u2019t been free since we\u2019ve met her on the show. How do you imagine she rises up from this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI can\u2019t tell you! It\u2019s going to be really interesting. You never know what happens with Taylor Sheridan, that\u2019s all I can say. Keep you on your toes! Episode seven is a remarkable episode. When I read it, I devoured it like every script from Taylor Sheridan that I devour like a brilliant book. There\u2019s so much that happens in the finale, you\u2019re in for treat. <\/p>\n

\n\tI was struck by your season one interviews when you spoke about how painful some of your scenes were to film at the boarding school, and how you would apologize to scene partners between takes. Usually you can find redeemable characteristics or justify actions as an actor, even when playing a villain, but how difficult was it to play someone like Renaud? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s difficult because this is someone who\u2019s based in reality. This is something that truly happened. I\u2019m not talking about the journey he goes onto to find Teonna [in season two], but what happened at residential schools happened. When I did my research, I was horrified. I\u2019d heard about it because it was in the news<\/a> after the discovery of the mass graves in Canada<\/a>, and I\u2019m sure more in in the U.S. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt that [season one] day where I killed Teonna\u2019s best friend Baapuxti (Leenah Robinson), that was a really especially difficult day for me being surrounded by all these beautiful kids whose ancestors have probably gone through these horrors. That made it all the more difficult. But at the end of the day, this is my job as an actor and I think the story was necessary to be told. I\u2019m glad that Taylor actually put this out there. <\/p>\n

\n\tI saw this extraordinary documentary that was nominated for the Oscars called Sugarcane<\/em> on the same subject; it\u2019s now a subject that is out in the open and we can really discuss what happened \u2014 the truth and horrors of what happened in the name of religion, supposedly. In a way, I\u2019m glad that I was the one who conveyed the importance of that period in history. I can see it that way. Emotionally, it was difficult.<\/p>\n

\n\tWill you play a villain next, or are you looking for a good guy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know, actually. We\u2019ll see. I really love complex characters. I don\u2019t classify them completely as villains. Committing these actions come from something deep-seated inside of them, from a complexity that comes from maybe childhood trauma, young man trauma, something traumatic that happened in their lives. I really love to go for rich characters. There are certain actors who really love to play these complex characters and I\u2019m one of them. That\u2019s why I consider myself a character actor in that respect.<\/p>\n

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\n\t1923\u00a0releases its season two finale Friday on Paramount+. Follow along with\u00a0THR\u2019s season coverage and interviews<\/em>,\u00a0including our\u00a0penultimate episode postmortem interviews with Darren Mann on Jack\u2019s death, and Michael Spears and Jeremy Guana on the deaths of Runs His Horse and Pete Plenty Clouds.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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