Netflix's new series 'American Primeval' offers a gritty and realistic portrayal of the American West, focusing on the real-life clashes between the U.S. Army, Mormon settlers, and Native American tribes in 1857 Utah. The series, directed by Peter Berg, avoids typical Western tropes, opting for brutal authenticity and a lack of nostalgia.
Netflix series is set amid the real-life clashes between the U.S. Army, Latter-day Saints and the Shoshone, Southern Paiute and Ute tribes.Howard Berger, the head of makeup on “ American Primeval ,” a Netflix limited series, thought he had achieved the optimal level of grime. He prepared a makeup test — muddied necks, blackened fingernails, dirt painted inside an actor’s ears — and showed it to Peter Berg, the series’ director.
Peter Berg, center, rides a horse while setting up a shot on the set of the Netflix limited series "American Primeval." Berg is the show's director and an executive producer. “One of the reasons why you don’t see this level of authenticity is because it’s very expensive,” Berg quipped, but he wasn’t exactly joking.
That commitment to truth, even in the midst of fiction, extended to every department. The costume department built more than 1,300 garments and hundreds of pairs of moccasins. Artisans worked oil, powders, paints and dirt into the textiles to dye and age them. Berg told the artisans to take the age and dye further.
“He wanted it dark,” Stateman said. “So we eliminated all birds. There are no birds in ‘American Primeval.’”
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