Taylor Kitsch happily poses alongside his co-star Andrea Riseborough while attending the premiere screening of their new mini-series WACO held at The Paley Center for Media on Wednesday (January 24) in New York City.
The 36-year-old actor and Andrea, 36, were joined at the event by their cast mates Rory Culkin and Michael Shannon, as well as creators John Erick and Drew Dowdle.
Taylor and the crew were also joined by real-life Waco survivor David Thibodeau, who wrote the biographical account A Place Called Waco that serves as half of the miniseries’ source material.
“David Thibodeau, specifically, every department called him and talked to him for hours and hours,” the Dowdle brothers revealed. “The art department was like, ‘Okay, what kind of ceiling did you guys have? Was it wood or was it…? What were the doors like on the men’s floor?’ He’d be like, ‘Oh, men didn’t have doors. They had sheets hanging in front.’ It was just all these little details that made it really real. And then every actor, on the Branch Davidian side at least, would sit with Thibodeau, and [say], ‘Okay, what was my character like?’ And he’d say, ‘Your character, this guy loved the sound of nature and spent all this time watching birds and listening.’ Or whatever it was, really, his memory of these people was so specific and so real, it gave everyone a lot to work with. ‘Rachel, she was really strong. Lead wife and head mother, and she would give it back to David as much as she would take.’ You know, there’s key things that helped in the script, but for the actors also, and production design and wardrobe and just everything.”
