Here’s your inside look at the Paramount+ western drama series Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Season 1 Episode 5, created by Taylor Sheridan.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves Cast:
Dennis Quaid, David Oyelowo, Forrest Goodluck, Lauren E. Banks, Barry Pepper, Grantham Coleman, Demi Singleton and Garrett
Stream Lawmen: Bass Reeves now on Paramount+!
Lawmen: Bass Reeves Cast:
Dennis Quaid, David Oyelowo, Forrest Goodluck, Lauren E. Banks, Barry Pepper, Grantham Coleman, Demi Singleton and Garrett
Stream Lawmen: Bass Reeves now on Paramount+!
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:01 Let me read the message to you.
00:05 It's clear now.
00:06 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:09 You're going that way.
00:10 You're drowning your own blood.
00:12 Well, have that day in court.
00:15 The choice is yours.
00:16 Bywater is another famous case from Bass Reaves' career.
00:20 And so we chose to tip our hat to the historical record.
00:23 We began ranch hopping until we found
00:25 the perfect place for Bywater.
00:27 So we took this place that was once 800 feet underwater,
00:30 and we are building another amazing set, which
00:33 is that Bywater trading post.
00:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:38 Our writers did not spare any excitement.
00:46 Our job was just to capture what they had put on the page.
00:49 Bywater is pretty special.
00:51 We just go out and we make the poetry.
00:55 Morning, Mrs. Reaves.
00:58 Why is he here?
01:01 I've been gone a week.
01:03 What about the condom?
01:06 Part of the journey of this story for Bass
01:09 is the erosion to his family.
01:12 He's on the road a lot.
01:14 And so he, at this point, is almost
01:17 becoming more comfortable being out of the house
01:20 and on the road because it's harder to leave.
01:22 You knew all last night and didn't breathe a word.
01:27 I think it's the not knowing that really hurts
01:30 Jenny because they all signed up for their father being
01:33 a part of this bigger picture in terms of his career.
01:36 But at the same time, I think in that moment,
01:38 it's clear that he has an obligation
01:40 to make the moments that he does share with his family worth it.
01:43 I have a duty.
01:44 Sworn oath.
01:45 Like the one you swore to me when we married.
01:47 It's harder to relate to his family because of the things
01:50 he's experiencing.
01:51 And so the notion of family becomes
01:53 something a bit more distant.
01:55 We are trying to explore the morphing of his identity
01:59 as someone who is fighting for justice, loves his family,
02:02 and is dealing in such murky waters.
02:04 See you in a week.
02:05 Hopefully that familial theme becomes
02:08 very relatable to the audience.
02:11 All these things in the world we never known about.
02:14 I find something so special about Demi's performances.
02:18 Demi's been a little piece of special sauce
02:20 that I just couldn't see coming.
02:22 Sally Reeves, you about the strangest girl I ever met.
02:25 And that's why you're sweet on me.
02:29 The most rewarding part is knowing
02:31 that I'm sharing a story that most people
02:34 are probably unfamiliar with.
02:36 I always love being able to educate someone
02:39 with the parts that I play.
02:43 Excuse me.
02:44 You need to get to the back of the line.
02:46 Sally, just a little girl.
02:48 A little girl with no manners.
02:51 When Sally and Arthur are walking home
02:54 after the incident with Clementine,
02:56 they run into Clementine's older brothers.
02:59 Shouldn't talk to my sister like that.
03:01 Says who?
03:02 Me.
03:04 Sally.
03:08 Her father is Deputy Marshall, so she
03:11 knows that no matter what, there's
03:12 always someone in her corner.
03:14 Whereas Arthur, he's kind of alone
03:16 and doesn't have the same level of protection
03:18 that she does.
03:18 They get into a physical fight that
03:31 becomes an issue within itself.
03:33 We're in it now.
03:35 In it bad.
03:36 We fine.
03:40 The story takes place in a time where
03:41 there was a lot of uncertainty.
03:43 So I think that this story will show just how
03:46 strong the Reeves family was.
03:50 You must kill folks.
03:52 Ain't none of them had it coming.
03:54 And for me to decide.
03:57 Well, that's our problem.
04:00 We always have somebody else to side for us.
04:05 Jack Rabbit, whose crime goes to be revealed
04:09 as him murdering someone who was incredibly murderous,
04:13 embodies one of the really tough and difficult lines
04:17 someone like Bass Reeves has to walk.
04:20 We thought he was burning his cane field.
04:24 But he was burning his slaves.
04:27 This is why Jack Rabbit takes the law into his own hands.
04:30 I think Bass can totally relate to that being a form of justice.
04:35 He knows what enslavement is and the inherent injustice
04:41 and brutality of that.
04:43 On the other side of the aisle, he now
04:46 finds himself as a lawman, an enforcer
04:49 of some sort within society.
04:52 Kind of hard to carry to take a man's life and sleep.
04:54 Peaceful one.
04:58 Jack Rabbit is there to challenge Bass's sense of justice
05:03 versus the law, to demonstrate what Bass's life would
05:06 have been like if he had turned left instead of right.
05:09 We view them as very similar personalities,
05:12 two black men who both fought in the Civil War.
05:15 They could have been friends.
05:16 They could have been brothers, should things
05:18 have played out differently.
05:20 Jack Rabbit committed a crime that was
05:29 wrong in the eyes of the law.
05:30 But Bass internally is wondering if he
05:33 wouldn't have done the same thing
05:34 if he was in Jack Rabbit's shoes.
05:35 It's a tipping point, actually, for Bass
05:37 in relation to him becoming disenchanted with this job
05:41 that he has up until this point valued.
05:43 He's now beginning to question its validity.
05:47 Saddle up.
05:49 Right now.
05:51 I am most excited for fans to see
05:53 the really cool action scenes that are throughout the series.
05:57 It's inspiring and it's exciting.
05:59 You are going to be entertained.
06:01 [MUSIC PLAYING]
06:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]
06:08 (explosion)