![]() “In the end, it's upon his shoulders to help inform us as to what this really means, what it means to his culture, and what it means to Indigenous peoples, and there’s really no way around that,” says Cooper, expressing regret that the actor’s role wasn’t more sizable. So Graham Greene, of course, in an earlier iteration, had a larger part in the narrative.”īut in the current theatrical cut of Antlers, Greene’s role has been whittled down to just a few scenes, one in which he explains the mythology of the wendigo to Russell’s disbelieving Julia. ![]() “You can't have Keri Russell discuss it, because they don't own it. “For the audience to understand what the wendigo is, and what it means, you can't have Jesse Plemons discuss it,” he continues. “Here you have a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant telling a Native American folkloric mythology story,” says Cooper of his approach, adding that the cultural ignorance of his main characters, all of whom are white, was crucial to the story. It can serve as a metaphor for people who are struggling with grief and trauma.” The wendigo, explained It can serve as a metaphor for the environment. “First and foremost, it's a spirit, but it can also serve as an addiction. “The wendigo takes many different forms,” Cooper says. For Cooper, it was paramount that the creature at the heart of Antlers fit tonally within the dark world he set out to create. ![]() That monster is revealed to be the wendigo, which has deep roots in Native American folklore, though Julia and her sheriff brother Paul (Jesse Plemons) are unaware of this. After Frank goes through withdrawal-like symptoms while locked in the family’s attic, he’s overtaken by the emergence of a monster that sprouts antlers from his mouth and eventually cracks his body open, like an insect emerging from a carapace. ![]() Gradually, it’s revealed that Lucas is struggling to help his younger brother Aiden (Sawyer Jones) and meth-cook father Frank (Scott Haze), both of whom have been transforming in hideous ways since encountering a horrifying supernatural presence deep in an abandoned mine shaft on the edge of town. ![]()
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