‘Dark Winds’ star McClarnon: ‘Finally able to tell our own stories’
nypost.comGeorge R.R. Martin and Robert Redford. “I saw George quite a bit. He’d come up to the set [in Santa Fe, NM]. We also had quite a few dinners together,” McClarnon said. “Bob [Redford] got up to the set a few times and said hello to everybody.
I spoke to him on the phone a few times, and we had a couple dinners. But he’s getting up there in age [at 86]. It’s kind of hard for him to get around these days.” The inaugural season of “Dark Winds,” based on a series of novels called “Leaphorn & Chee,” the drew 2.2 million viewers — a record for AMC+.
The series follows Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn (McClarnon) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon, “Twilight”) as they investigate crimes on their reservation — including grisly murder.
The story also includes serious topics including the forced sterilization of Indigenous women. At the end of Season 1, it was revealed that Chee was an undercover FBI agent; Season 2 begins with Chee now working as a private investigator, while Leaphorn is working on a case involving a sociopath (Nicholas Logan).
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