1883's LaMonica Garrett Tells Some Of His Favorite Behind-The-Scenes Tales

Across the whole season, whether it involves Gratiela or Sam or whoever, what's one of the greatest behind-the-scenes memories you'll carry with you forever?

When we were in Montana, we were out there for about a month. Me, Sam, Tim, Faith, Isabelle, Gratiela, and Audie [Rick, who plays John Dutton Sr.] and his mom, we were all staying in the same cabin, and it was a pretty big cabin. We all had our own rooms, but we shared the living room, dining room, kitchen, refrigerator, all that stuff. After we would get off work each day, we'd pretty much wrap around the same time, and we'd all come back to the cabin together. 

We'd eat dinner together. We'd go out and watch a movie or watch some kind of film or TV show. Me and Tim would watch reruns of "The Outlaw Josey Wales." We would watch Sunday Night and Monday Night Football. We all sat together when "The Harder They Fall" came out. We watched that, and it felt like a family. We're all sitting around the couches and the chairs watching that. Those moments were ... we knew they were special when it was happening.

There was one particular night where we're all sitting around, drinking whiskey and beer, and hanging out. We all had to work the next day, so it wasn't too late. Sam was talking about old Hollywood and how he got started, and how, back when you had a contract with the film company, you couldn't work on any other productions because they're paying you to just work with them. [He also talked about] the things he had to do to get jobs and be creative to separate himself from other actors, behind-the-scenes stuff on "Tombstone," and it was amazing. 

We're all sitting there like it was camp, like a campfire, listening. Sam's voice, you could listen to Sam read the newspaper and you'd be good. Him telling these actual stories of his life and his career, I wish I had a recorder to record some of that. That was one of the best nights of the whole production to me.