He’s an Irish cowboy.
Actor/director Eoin Macken stars within the new Netflix Western drama “Ransom Canyon,” premiering April 17.
“Irish people generally don’t go abroad to go to cowboy camp when they’re younger,” Macken, 42, joked completely to The Put up.
He added that he didn’t really feel that distant from the cowboy world, regardless that it’s American iconography.
“But I feel like there’s actually a large history of some Irish [people] in some of the older Western movies, where actually there’s Irish immigrants who seem to populate and float as they traveled,” the actor mentioned. “I’ve ridden horses a lot on other shows and stuff, so I was quite comfortable with that. And, I grew up watching those type of movies.”
“Ransom Canyon” relies on a sequence of romance novels by Jodi Thomas. The story has a central love triangle involving rancher Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel), dance corridor proprietor Quinn (Minka Kelly) and Staten’s rival rancher, Davis (Macken). The characters additionally need to take care of varied threats to their land, in addition to private and work points.
“The interesting thing about that love triangle concept is that everyone’s the important part of their own triangle,” Macken instructed The Put up.
“So for Davis, I think that the most important thing about him is that he sees everything he’s doing from his own point of view as being the right thing to do. But he is also quite complex and does have a dark side,” he shared. “There’s good and bad elements of his behavior and his personality, which inevitably come through in anybody’s situation, no matter how much they try and pretend they don’t exist.”
Macken, who starred as Sir Gwaine on the BBC fantasy sequence “Merlin” and within the NBC medical drama “Night Shift,” mentioned he was drawn to “Ransom Canyon” as a result of he favored the thought of being in a “different sort of exploration” of the cowboy style.
About his previous roles, he mentioned, “Merlin’s my favorite show I’ve ever done, mainly because I’ve had so many of my good friends on that show, but also, that show has been so well received, and so many fans have been incredibly kind. Even when I was working in Australia a couple of years ago, I did some comic cons, and people still really care about the show.”
He joked that on “Merlin,” since he was taking part in a medieval knight, it ready him for “Ransom Canyon” as a result of he realized “what not to do” whereas driving horses.
“I’ve had the experiences on ‘Merlin’ of being put on the horse, and the horse bolting and just having to hold on for dear life while they filmed. So on [‘Ransom Canyon’], I was like, ‘alright, these cowboys are more controlled than the knights!’ ” he quipped.
Macken mentioned that “Ransom Canyon” actually did ship the actors to “cowboy camp.”
“We did it for the first month before filming … We did a lot of wrangling, these cute little cows, and also how you kind of steer them, and you guide them with the horse and work together to kind of basically corral them.”
He mentioned there have been no mishaps throughout that point as a result of the actors all took it critically.
“We’re all actually quite good. Everyone really wanted to try … so no one got kicked in the face by a cow.”
