Good morning everyone. I'm Scott Feinberg, executive editor at the Hollywood

reporter and the host of our Awards Chatter

Podcast.

And I want to thank you for joining us for our third annual edition of the podcast that we're recording

at the Cannes Film Festival here in the beautiful

Campari lounge. You can't really beat this view and so we want to thank them for

hosting us and thank all of you for being here. Today it is my great honor and privilege to be joined by one of the

most gifted actors and filmmakers of our time. A two-time Oscar winner and Screen Legend who tonight

will premiere at this festival, the first chapter of a multi-part

Western that has been his passion project for decades, and that he co-wrote, produced, directed,

and Stars in Horizon and American Saga chapter one.

I'd like to read something that was written about him in Time magazine back in 1989,

but is every bit as true today.

Quote, he is something else, a grown-up hero with brains.

He's modern and classic.

He thinks fast and shoots straight.

He has city reflexes that help him beat the big boys at

hardball, yet he stokes memories of the lone man on a horse, silhouetted against

the craggy horizon, and setting sun of Old West values.

He has the requisite danger for big screen stardom,

the stubbornness in pursuit of ideals,

the slow anger when pushed, the threat in a face

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