3/19/2026 at 7:39:38 PM
The late actor will play Father Fintan, a Native American spiritualist and Catholic priest.So... they can digitally generate anything they can imagine, and they chose to generate a pasty white guy.
I don't doubt Kilmer's devotion to Native American rights, I'll take his nebulous claim of Cherokee heritage at face value.
But this would have been a great opportunity to hire an actual Native American human being to play the role. If Kilmer were alive to play the role, he'd have had to do it in heavy makeup and a wig, because his ancestry is mostly Northern European.
The film is about two white Americans (be played by British actors, of course) working on Navajo lands. Will there be any actual Native Americans in the film?
by jfengel