between walking around the different classes and hanging around the smoking area, it was .. they had a multi-culturalism program that they had figured out for themselves and they were promoting it. I'd go in there and buy 50 CDs at a time. For example, the beginning of the movie in the woods Day-Lewis' shirt appears and disappears! ES: Yeah, they couldn't have two different love stories going on at once. They could come so close but the rest is just theoretical, or hypothetical. ES: No, not when I was there. There was eleven thousand gallons coming through a pump into the pool and then it's sucked back through to create the waterfall. And try to teach them to watch out for the warning signs. And who they focus on and who they promote is gangster rap. have been because they had aged so much and the paint had flaked off. it was aged down, but we just took a shot at it and it turned out wicked. AMERICAN HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS. I love jamming. Yeah, I love playing blues. Of Inuit and German descent, Eric Schweig is the star player of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Networks Gemini award-winning series Blackstone, which premieres Wednesday, January 11th. Eric Schweig has spoken freely about his alcoholism. Both musical pieces heard during this interview are by Tudjaat, Right now, with all the school violence and music and art programs being cut all over the US I thought it would be good to interview him. My mother died of alcoholism and she was homeless as well. But he said them. I don't know what either one of them is doing. It's sort of, if you think about it, it kind of leaves the audience going, "How did all these guys What am I doing working in the movies? That's why we had, sometimes, 15 or 16 hour days. If they were operable it would have been more fun. It's retarded. Also the music by Daniel Lanois, a French-Canadian composer. Ex mercenaries that have seen and done horrible things decide to retire and open up a used car lot. MP: What did you think of her being there? It was fun! In COLOR! ES: No, I haven't. Something that minuscule I wouldn't remember. To imply that Hollywood is still "sucking the blood" of the Indian is downright misleading. I: Where there any significant problems with the movie? Was that difficult to achieve? MESSAGE BOARD, STOREFRONTS! ES: Yeah, they taught us how to pack the wadding and the powder and the ball and all that kind of stuff. Blackstone Season 2 - "Eric Schweig interviews Andrea Menard" - YouTube For exclusive content visit: www.blackstonetheseries.com For exclusive content visit: www.blackstonetheseries.com. Perhaps we are wrong. You can't put some little guy next to someone like Daniel Day-Lewis. Or was it a sex scene? Sometimes I felt like I wanted to scream or something. discussing The Last of the Mohicans, but became extremely animated when talking about certain topics, particularly his masks and his involvement in a children's drama group. I broke the cycle by not drinking and finding out what I'm NOT. 1997 - 2020 by Most of the time I was either standing or running. Some people don't know whether to love him or hate him. couple of days we had it down to 20 or 30 seconds. I don't mind period pieces as long as it's something positive and not negative. AMERICAN HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS love interest. You can find some of his films, including his two favorites, "Tom and Huck" and "Pontiac Moon", listed It wasn't too heavy. I started volunteering with Resource Assistance for YouthRaY Inc., and and they hired me to work with them. ES: Oh yeah! ES: Yeah, but I understand the reason why. LINKS [Laughs] They're not making Spaghetti Westerns. a couple of days and then meet the director, I guess. Interviewing is something we hadn't done Apparently they're shooting in Washington State. A lot of elders are sharper than most 16 year olds 20 or 30, they're sharper than people half their age. The battle scenes were spectacular! It is fun because you can do morally reprehensible shit and get away with it. So, it it is somewhat difficult to have to knock his words. If they were good sticks .. it was kind of a bummer .. it would've been a better game. SCRIPT || We are much about the same height and the same build and I guess they wanted someone with long hair. We went down to Columbus, Ga., for a month and trained in this anti-terrorist camp. So, what they would like to know is what would E: Oh, yeah. Tom & Huck or Pontiac Moon if they were done differently, not Tom & Huck, but Pontiac Moon. And I have to say that out of all the cast members, I think you gave a fine performance and we wanted to interview you primarily. Or do you instead allow your own mood, your color preferences .. that sort of thing, to blend with tradition and then the result being a unique There was really very little dialogue between the two of you, but, you both presented a very strong relationship on film despite the lack of dialogue. MP: The diverse cast - a microcosm of the French and Indian War, really - must have made things interesting on the set. Right THERE! E: Michael Mann was running around behind everyone in the editing room making them do it shouting, "What are you doing?". Does he know that, in fact, all these characters are not based on fiction? To Continue Reading Our Interview With Eric Schweig, Move On To: PART 2: ERIC SCHWEIG: AN INTERVIEW. 30 below weather. MP: Throughout the film there is featured some terrific landscapes. But there was some kind of beef with the production company and the North Carolina tourism division. Probably in a little while. but, I'll get the script in But there are so many questions we would like to ask of him! I was homeless when I was a kid. Is there anything that you are aware of any possibilities on the horizon that they can look forward to? the blood they can out of us to paint their own pictures and then we'll be high and dry. MP: Okay! Tell us about Andy Fraser, the character you're playing. ES: Yeah.it's a.. yeah. It doesn't matter what kind of crooks they were! [laughs] There could have been a few more women. I haven't seen him in a bit, but I like to hang out with him once in a while but, that's about it. You know.. just in town here, right beside the baseball field.. and this is a small town, there's about 10,000 people. right beside the ball field, this young girl, about a year and And I'm a damn hand with a harmonica! So, that's what I'm going to try to do with these guys this week. EARLY the least. I went over to his hotel and sat around with him. You need an Indian to play an Indian and you need a Frenchman to play a Frenchman if you want a realistic looking movie. ES: Yeah. If you cultivate that, when he is 30 years old he would be the best possible asset for his community. It's going to be released here so just brace yourself. It's really cool to just be watching a film and there's an Indian guy there or an Indian woman, and there's no reference to them being Indian you know .. it puts a more human face on us because people are so scared because of their own Just HUGE games. People either love it or they hate it and that's what you want. This is "Eric Schweig Demo 2016" by Eric Schweig on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. We were in contact in regard to showcasing Eric's Inuit wood carvings here on our Site, not to discuss this or any other interview. MP: Then they'll be there for future generations? Did you find that different from other film experiences? That's because people listen to them. I: I saw the movie three times and honed in on the role of Uncas. So we can .. now we have them. MP: I know you've had experience framing houses. Eric Schweig (born Ray Dean Thrasher; 19 June 1967 [1]) is an Indigenous Canadian actor best known for his role as Chingachgook 's son Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans (1992). You should do a mask. It was hot and it was annoying because Michael wanted to .. you know, like I said before.take after take. passionate, heartfelt, and poignantly expressed. I'm not an Indian actor. were there. It was stupid not to! Where's Marion? That's who they should be chasing but they don't. I: How do you feel about Indians being depicted in films by white people, in earlier movies? MP: A lot of the people who come to our web site are coming because of an interest in you. Just go ahead and tell me how you feel about that. ES: Oh yeah. But that's all right. Did you ever feel like "us against them" or "we've got another obstacle to go through and we've got to watch out for each other"; or was I walked the streets with holes in my shoes and I stood in line at soup kitchens. And, if there should be any activism it should be to talk to kids you see, if you're going to solve a lot of the problems within the Indian community, as far as civil . or play a dulcimer, learn how to play a dulcimer. Well, like I said, Red River has received a lot of attention in Europe and people have described it as beautiful. Or, at least wonder why he says it! Available - Free Downloads Only! A speech was given by actor-adoptee Eric Schweig on February 19, 1999 at the Vancouver Inner City Foster Care Conference. He was just a guy. Directing them, casting them, and what not.. but. so that's what I'd really like to see. There's got to be a lot of women in order for there to be a lot of guys MP: Well, in that regard, most of the film takes place where you wouldn't expect to FIND a lot of women, on the battle front. "ALL THESE CHARACTERS ARE BASED ON FICTION!". You know, bad things happened to me and I left home. and I did bad things. I was raised in the country so, you know, I didn't have any it didn't bother me in the least. [Laugh]. So, pretty soon, if you start looking inside yourself for I encourage kids to do this now. Can you turn it into a greater good by reaching out to those kids? E: Yes, but I got restless. This is all in the 1800s and actually we shot it over at the ranch where they shot Legends of the Fall. Yeah, they cut that out, they must have. And they put in all kinds of unnatural fears into kids' minds, or potentially can. Blackstone Season 1 - "The Ladies Want to Know" 48,230 views Nov 24, 2011 217 Dislike Share Save BlackstoneTheSeries 1.14K subscribers Eric Schweig answers questions about Last of the. friendly towards each other or any of that. And they wanted us to have shaved heads. ES: I don't know, they should have stuck it in there. SCRIPT || They just. a lot of it was really dark but it was incredible. It comes from people not talking to their elders and not listening to them. 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