Billy the Kid

EPIX is releasing a series on the iconic character Billy the Kid. We sat down with Tom Blyth, Daniel Webber and Eileen O'Higgins to talk about the series.

Eileen O’Higgins: When I read the script, and we read the scenes, and the compassion of the character and the relationship that she had between like, her sons and her husband, potty, and his illness and things like when I first auditioned for the party just had the first episode. There’s a photo of him with two other cowboys and out of the three of them, he’s kind of dirty. You pick up so much that, maybe this is projection, but like there’s a sense of humor and a certain charisma and confidence in just a simple photograph of a person and that’s definitely what I got from looking at some of the images that we have left of Jesse. So you take what you can with stories like this and then fill in the blanks. I mean, that yeah, the minute it looked like it was gonna be possible for you to play the character as I kind of started down the road of, of kind of, yeah, my conversation with Billy, I didn’t watch any of their performances, specifically. Blyth is INCREDIBLE in the role and I hope we get to see him explore this role more in the future. It’s a slippery slope, especially because as an actor, you’re you put yourself in a place of absorption, and you put yourself in a place where you’re kind of trying to, you know, you’re mimicking, and you’re and you’re parroting, and you’re trying to absorb all these qualities.