“Once I put the boots on, the character was mine to inhabit”
Gabriel Luna’s Tommy disappears. The Desert Storm veteran who in 2003 defended bar patrons from an infected customer and saved Joel from the soldier who killed Joel’s daughter, Sarah, and was active with the Boston rebel group the Fireflies in 2023, has gone radio silent in Wyoming. His absence is a narrative question mark, and in a world with no electricity, little gas, and spotty long-distance communication, Tommy will be practically impossible to find.
Jeffrey and I met at the premiere about a month ago. We had met via the internet about a year ago, and he has always been so, so positive and so welcoming. As far as thefamily is concerned, he’s been a champion of mine. On the internet, when some people were a little less than confident in my casting, Jeffrey has been on the front line in defense of my participation in the story. I told him as much when I saw him at the premiere and gave him a big hug.
The pilot, obviously, we shot first, in summer 2021. I was there for about three months, including quarantine time and prep time. We got to shooting episode six in the winter — we were waiting for snow. I had gotten this other gig but wasn’t able to do it because we had to shift the schedules because of the Alberta snow and how important it was for this episode.
A lot of that scene plays on Tommy’s response to seeing his brother in this weakened state. To see this person who’s always been this rock in my life — to see water from a stone in that moment — it’s somewhat uprooting. It’s kind of scary for me. It’s unsettling, but then it’s also somewhat shameful, as two men who are very strong-minded, strong-willed. That’s when I turned from him, and I think part of it is just being uncomfortable.
It’s just tearing me up to see him this way. And being the two Texas boys we are, showing each other this type of emotion is not that typical for the relationship. There’s a lot of reasons why my instinct was to turn away from it, even though I’m going to give in.
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