The Brendan Fraser Factum.: TEXAS RISING (2015)

BILL PAXTON as General Sam Houston

JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as Deaf Smith

RAY LIOTTA as Lorca

OLIVIER MARTINEZ as Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

In the spring of 2014, Brendan traveled to Durango, Mexico to film the ITV/ History Channel miniseries "Texas Rising" a dramatization of the founding of the Texas Rangers. Already an experienced horseman, Brendan had a leg up on his co-stars, many of which had never ridden and had to take lessons prior to the filming.

Brendan portrays Billy Anderson,

a white man kidnapped and raised by the Kiowa Indians. As an adult he possesses the knowledge of the tribe's customs and language which prove a great asset to General Sam Houston (Bill Paxton) and his skill with a bow and arrow is nothing short of impressive.

(Brendan practised for months in his backyard using bags of shavings with bulls-eyes painted on them as targets).

Billy also has an estranged son named Yellow Knife.

"Billy is there to bridge the gap between two worlds. He's the guy with the braids, who has the language skills, speaks like the locals and can diffuse a situation through diplomacy."

The shoot proved to be a long and difficult one due to the scorching summer heat, scorpions, snakes, dehydration, (It sounds like a Mummy movie !!!) homesickness (big time), and the constrictions of a low budget ($45 million), hundreds of extras, horses, and thirteen weeks of "pre-dawn rides in prison quality vans and check- your -ego -at -the -door."

(115 degrees in the shade ! What's a guy have to do to get a movie in Siberia ? 😔)

CYNTHIA ADDAI-ROBINSON as Emily West

CHRISTOPHER McDONALD as Henry Karnes

GERARDO TARACENA as Manuel Flores

JACOB LOFLAND as Colby Pit

The miniseries was directed by Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields, The Mission, The Scarlet Letter)
and written by Leslie Greif and Darrell Fetty who also served as executive producers.

Filming took place over five months during the summer of 2014 in Durango, Mexico.

Brendan, in the capable hands of Make-Up Supervisor Maurizio Nardi.

Brendan and Durango Governor Jorge Herrera (third from left)

"NEW" PHOTOS

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(We were in the garage looking through boxes in preparation for the big move😟, "A fun,rainy day activity", my eye !!!😝 when My Tess found a roll of film in the pocket of a jacket I don't wear anymore, and this is what we found. Enjoy !!!)

"Some of the most achingly beautiful terrain.....the saturated genre of the western on our collective cinema zeitgeist ideology."

-Brendan Fraser 😕