Bruce Boxleitner is walking down the main street in the Mescal Movie Set near Tucson, Arizona, on an overcast September afternoon. But in his mind, he’s really taking a trip down memory lane.
“This is the fifth picture I’ve done here,” the veteran actor tells me, ticking off titles on a list that runs the gamut from The Gambler (starring Kenny Rogers) and its sequels to the How the West Was Won TV series to the 1988 remake of Red River.
“And I played Wyatt Earp in a 1983 TV movie called I Married Wyatt Earp, with Marie Osmond as my wife. Now there’s some casting for you. That was in the wintertime here, and this town had these fantastic muddy streets because we had a lot of rain. That was the fun thing about it, because we’d shoot right through it.”
So far, the weather has been a good deal more cooperative during the, an old-fashioned, straight-shooting western set for a fall 2023 premiere on the FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) Cowboy Way channel.
