Kevin Costner ensured women “dominate” his new Western as he believes they built the American frontier. The Oscar-winner, 69, has brought his latest epic film ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ to the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, which stars Sienna Miller, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Georgia McPhail and Ella Hunt, among a string of other female cast members. He said at the premiere of his movie on Sunday (19.
05.24) about why the movie focuses on females: “It’s almost impossible to imagine a West without women, isn’t it? The West doesn’t carry on without women. “And they understand that they were basically trying to keep their families clean and fed, and women were worked to death.
Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. “And if they lost their man, there’s every opportunity that their life could become something unimaginable, bad. “That’s why Sienna’s character moves so quickly to bring a man into her life, because she knows how vulnerable she could be, and she doesn’t care about her reputation to do it.
“And we would taboo that now: ‘That’s too quick, she’s moved too quick.’ “I am not looking for kudos because women are in it. For me, they’re not in it, they actually dominate the movie, to be honest.
“Every one of those women dominate when they’re on the screen.” Earlier this month, Kevin vowed to bring only the female actors from his new film as his VIP guests to its world premiere at Cann.