Along with Max Walker-Silverman’s “A Love Song,” which opens in theaters Friday, he’s a recurring, funny guest star on Sterlin Harjo’s “Reservation Dogs,” the second season of which debuts Aug.
When he heard Mann was making “Heat,” Studi called up the director and got himself a part as a police detective.īut recently, Studi is increasingly getting a chance to play a wider array of characters. But it’s sometimes taken some extra effort. Studi, the Cherokee actor who masterfully played the defiant Huron warrior Magua in Michael Mann’s “The Last of the Mohicans” and who got his first big break playing the character credited only as “the toughest Pawnee” in “Dances With Wolves,” hasn’t been limited entirely to what he calls “leather and feathers” roles.
Dickey plays a woman camping by a mountain lake awaiting the visit of an old flame. In “A Love Song,” a tender indie drama starring another long-pigeonholed character actor, Dale Dickey, Studi is for the first time cast as a romantic co-star. “I thought it was about time, yeah,” Studi, 74, says chuckling.
But one thing he had never done in a movie is give someone a kiss. For three decades, he has arrestingly crafted wide-ranging portraits of the Native American experience. NEW YORK (AP) - In Wes Studi’s potent and pioneering acting career, he has played vengeful warriors, dying prisoners and impassioned resistance leaders.