Survival is the name of the game on every level-and emotional survival. That's what that environment demands of you especially. Certainly I think as a woman having survived and continuing to survive in that environment, she has wisdom, knowledge to impart to the women around her.Ībsolutely. It's down to earth, it's realistic and it's humane, and that could be a man or a woman having that kind of approach to human relations. It's interesting that you translate that as maternal, which I think kind of sexist in a way because I don't think it is necessarily like maternal. I think what it is is practical and and humane. But when the camera's rolling you, you find yourself being able to do all kinds of things, which you'd never be able to do otherwise.Ĭara doesn’t have any biological children, but she seems quite maternal to the younger members of the ranch. We'll, we'll put you in a buggy.” I'm a city girl, really. I'm not afraid of horses and I've fallen off horses, but I'm not a rider.” He said, “Oh, don't worry. I said right at the beginning to Taylor, “I'm not a rider Taylor.

I've fallen off a horse many, many times, let's put it that way. I went to cowboy camp and learned how to drive a buggy, and learned how to get familiar with the ranching world, the smells and the textures and the attitudes towards animals.

Was there anything you had to learn for the physical demands of this role? So I kind of knew that this had to be an extraordinary character.

I realized how omnipresent death is, for example, and the chaos of those times, the necessity to think on your feet and be prepared to change and develop and learn new environments, learn new systems of survival.

As a part of my research, I read contemporary biographies, autobiographies of pioneer women or the early settlers, female settlers of the American West. I just had faith because those women were extraordinary. We never really talked about it, honestly.

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