Post by Totems4jt on Jul 4, 2008 18:05:22 GMT -5
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White Bear
Cowboys and Indians
by Jordan Rane
While casting for the lead in Unbowed, the director stated that, "there were definitely actors to choose from for Waka Mani, the male lead," recalls Unbowed director Nanci Rossov, "but I knew very early on that I wanted Jay. I knew the camera would love him — and it does. But as an actor, he proved to be very instinctual and very smart, which a lot of folks assume beautiful people aren't. His role took a certain emotional breadth and level of intelligence, and Jay was there for that. He has all of it."
The low-budget film, which Tavare calls a "labor of love," went on to win a Best Feature award and Best Actor honors for Tavare at the 1999 American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco — beating out the festival's goliath, Richard Attenborough's Grey Owl, starring Pierce Brosnan. The whole experience was also a homecoming of sorts for Tavare, who would begin to regain an attachment to his lost-and-found heritage.
White Bear
Cowboys and Indians
by Jordan Rane
While casting for the lead in Unbowed, the director stated that, "there were definitely actors to choose from for Waka Mani, the male lead," recalls Unbowed director Nanci Rossov, "but I knew very early on that I wanted Jay. I knew the camera would love him — and it does. But as an actor, he proved to be very instinctual and very smart, which a lot of folks assume beautiful people aren't. His role took a certain emotional breadth and level of intelligence, and Jay was there for that. He has all of it."
The low-budget film, which Tavare calls a "labor of love," went on to win a Best Feature award and Best Actor honors for Tavare at the 1999 American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco — beating out the festival's goliath, Richard Attenborough's Grey Owl, starring Pierce Brosnan. The whole experience was also a homecoming of sorts for Tavare, who would begin to regain an attachment to his lost-and-found heritage.