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Kiowa Gordon, who plays Embry Call in New Moon, chatted with Indian Country Today about his werewolf transformation and landing the part!
“An acting coach worked with me for about an hour before the audition,” Kiowa said.
Within a couple of weeks he got word that he landed the part! After speaking to the director on the phone, he was off to Los Angeles for a “cyberscan.” It’s a technique used in many movies to create real-life animation. “A machine went around my body to create a computer image so I could be transformed into a werewolf.”
“When I went to Vancouver, the first person I met was Alex Meraz. During the first three weeks I hung out with the wolf pack. We worked with a personal trainer. I gained five pounds. We all bonded and became like brothers.”
Kiowa said they even enhanced their abs with makeup! “We spend an hour in makeup (basically) getting darker and they enhanced our abs. It was really cold, one degree Celsius. We wore robes before our shoots. All our scenes were outdoors. We had to get in the rain.”
Image Credited to Bauer Griffin