Emmy- and Tony Award–winning actor and producer Eric Nelsen grew up in Florida, but since moving to Fort Worth in 2020, he’s embraced the cowboy lifestyle. When offered the role of Ennis on one of Taylor Sheridan’s Western juggernauts, the drama miniseries 1883, Nelsen jumped at the chance to return to his childhood horseback riding roots. More recently, he’s been working in Tulsa, filming a role as a bounty hunter for the western thriller Cottonmouth. (The production was granted a waiver to shoot while the Screen Actors Guild is on strike.) Now he says if he could only do westerns, he’d “be a happy guy.”Before 1883 began shooting, Taylor Sheridan put his actors through the paces of ranch life at “cowboy camp.” Everyone “fell head over…
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