"I first met Robert Duvall in a muddy field in Maryland in 2001, on the set of Gods and Generals. It was a Warner Bros civil war epic, the kind of production where the scale alone made you feel small. I was playing a low-ranking Confederate aide-de-camp to General Stonewall Jackson. I was young, unsure of myself, and painfully aware of exactly where I stood in the hierarchy of things."
"That morning, they placed him on the horse. He sat tall and still in the saddle, dressed as Robert E Lee grey coat, grey beard, grey sky above him and he didn't seem like an actor in costume. He seemed as if he had stepped out of the earth itself. He was Lee, and more than that, he was Duvall a distant relative of Lee, too, which somehow made it all feel inevitable. He carried the weight of history effortlessly."
Robert Duvall appeared on the Maryland set of Gods and Generals in 2001 as General Robert E. Lee, his presence made him seem to step out of the earth. A young actor played a low-ranking Confederate aide-de-camp, feeling small amid the epic production and anxious about portraying truth. Duvall carried the weight of history effortlessly and was also a distant relative of Lee, which deepened the effect. The day was spent working in mud with horses and cannons; afterwards Duvall's assistant invited the actor to dinner. Duvall demanded truthful performances and had no patience for falseness, fiercely protecting the work.
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