Rachel Hilson de Duster breaks down the shooting “ Butch Cassidy ” from Nina and Jim and what this final scene means
Publisher’s note: The interview below contains spoilers for Duster Episode 6.
Like HBO Max’s new criminal drama Tobacco Going to the back half of its first season, the series continues to lead its greatest mystery concerning the anonymous threat of Xavier, the mysterious cowboy (Jr yenque) DC, and how all this is in a way linked to the American president Richard Nixon and to Ezra Saxton (Keith David) Operation in Arizona. Now that the saxton getaway driver Jim Ellis (Josh Holloway) has become a confidential informant for the FBI agent newly created Nina Hayes (Rachel Hilson), both increased their investigation into sax transactions – but with Nina now inside working under cover as a Russian translator, the issues have never been higher. There is also the fact that the executor of Saxton, Billy (Evan Jones), and colleague agent of Nina, Grant (And Tracy), serve obstacles in more ways than one.
Before the first in episode 6, Collider had the opportunity to make up for Hilson on some of the biggest and most badass moments in Nina this week Tobacco. During the interview, which you can read below, Hilson reveals the meaning of Nina giving his necklace to Awan (Asavak Koostach), why Royce’s (Benjamin Charles Watson) Crushing could be something that Nina can use to her advantage, how many stunts she wanted to play during Nina and Jim Butch Cassidy Shootout, what this last moment of the hotel means between the two tracks, and more.
Collider: Is there a secret for a good walk in slow motion? Because you have very great this season.
Rachel Hilson: This is a question that I have not seen. I think it’s no longer the work of the camera, fortunately. This is obviously a different number of frames. You just have to put your shoulders back and look a bit around you and feel. But the camera does most of the work there.
Have the costumes also helped?
Hilson: Certainly. Costumes and shoes. They give me a lot of high heels shoes because I’m quite short. I think it still helps so. I will also credit the camera because they usually make a low angle. You just have to look like what you are talking about when you walk.
Rachel Hilson explains the meaning of this moment of “Duster” necklace
“It is this pursuit of life or death.”
This week, Nina gives Awan her necklace for the guard, which is very touching, but it is also a little sober because he really strikes them, for the first time, how dangerous it could be for her, entering the lion’s den. How did you want to tackle this scene and highlight the weight of the moment in the look that you are sharing?
Hilson: Nina finally gets what she came to Phoenix for. She had this successful meeting, and that’s what she wanted from the start. I think that throughout this prosecution, she made the challenges. She knows how dangerous it is. There is something that happens in all our lives, when there is the moment when reality strikes, and it sinks, all the implications of what this moment means. For Nina, yes, it is literally a moment of life or death that it is about to embark on. Even if it is something she needs, I don’t think she can continue if she didn’t continue that. But it is still this pursuit of life or death.
I think there is probably also something in its partnership with Awan. They have developed such proximity and such confidence, and I even think that I see it and look at it and to choose to give it this necklace, She sees a kind of house in himAnd even the possibility that she cannot even see him relive, not to mention his mom. So, yes, I think it’s a really tender and important moment for her and for them. It’s a moment that gives to think.
As tense as this episode for your character, one of my favorite moments is when Nina ends up getting into the car with the saxcons, and the spinners song arrives on the radio. How difficult is it not not to give in to the temptation to sing with everyone in a scene like that?
Hilson: I remember writing in this script. They start to sing, and he says, “Nina is suddenly in a car full of criminals while they sing.” This is this moment of These people are very bad, they do very bad things, but they are also human beings who listen to music and have funAnd know the lyrics of all the songs she knows the lyrics. Sitting at the front is the person who killed his father, but he is also a human being with a son and a driver, and they also have fun, I suppose. How can it perhaps look at the fact that they are human and somehow from a distance from whom they are for a while? What I think it must definitely adapt during this episode, and I suppose during what we will see in the next episodes. I think it is definitely a slow process, despite, once again, the issues being so high. I think that sometimes she is not fully aware of her face, and it is something that she must remember to control a little.
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The butch Cassidy Exchange of Jim and Nina culminates in what Royce calls the Pam Grier de Nina, which I also liked. Speaking to some of your co-stars, they tried to do many of these waterfalls themselves. What share of the action do you really want to perform yourself this week?
Hilson: Yes, we all have really incredible blows, but I wanted to do as much as possible for these scenes. For this sequence, there is a roller and then there is the diving, and I have them both. However, I have always had a carpet for reasons of responsibility. I could not dive directly on the concrete or roll on the concrete, but I did all this. There is an angle, but it switches so quickly between me and my person cascade. I’ll say yes, I did these two things. I had a lot of bruises afterwards. It’s funny things. I didn’t think I could do a lot, at least at this stage of my career. Especially someone in my stature, I feel like I have not always thought of the action, in a way of roles. So it was really fun for me, because I come from a dance environment, so I like the challenge of the choreography of the case. I know Josh [Holloway] went to school to drive. I didn’t do all of this, but I did what I could.
Something else that becomes clear this week is that Royce crushes strong enough for Nina. He makes no secrets that he is in her, and it is actually rather cute. But when Billy begins to have suspicions and confronts Nina with his identity and the fact that all the details of his story do not add up, Royce is the one that intervenes and does not defend it. Is it something that Nina thinks she can use to her advantage when she is still under cover?
Hilson: Oh, absolutely. I think she takes it back, then she tries to feed him too, because it is another, another way of achieving her goal, and that turns out to be quite essential, realizes. This crush, this affection and affinity that Royce has for Nina, literally save him once or twice.
At the start, you think that agent Grant is only a racist and versatile con, but it then takes place that it is part of this greater conspiracy. How is his start to search in Nina’s investigation will take a key in things heading towards the final?
Hilson: In addition to being racist and misogynist, and having its own FBI program, it has this other program even more important in coexistence with the FBI. Thus, his interest in Nina, yes, is not purely a disdain or a professional or other competition; It is also, for him, issues of life or death too. We are starting to see how coordinated all this is, and all the parts and plants are that make up all this web. He finally realizes: it’s me or she. So, yes, the challenges for this develop over the next three episodes. This is a situation, the same, in the FBI, but for more important reasons than we initially thought.
Rachel Hilson wants viewers to draw their own conclusions on this Nina / Jim scene
“It is open to interpretation.”
After the dust settled from the shooting, Nina crushed Jim, and they seem to share a moment. From a certain POV, it could be loaded in a certain way. It could just be that the two finally start to lower the guard with each other. What is your reading on this look between them?
Hilson: I think I want to leave this to the public to decide. I don’t know if I can talk about it or should talk about it.
Is it open to interpretation?
Hilson: Yes, it’s open to interpretation. They just crossed something quite intense together. They had a fairly intense and volatile relationship and loaded in the other until that time, and I think At the end of this day, they saved each other. You don’t have that with many people, where you save the life of the other. There is something that comes from that, this energy, this change which stems from this kind of experience or relationship of literally each other. So, yes, I think it’s the public to decide what they think is the product of this, what they think at that time.
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