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American director Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River opens in theatres Aug. 18.

The thriller, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in January, has some star power: Jeremy Renner stars as Cory Lambert, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent, and Elizabeth Olsen stars as Jane Banner, an FBI agent.

But its most powerful star may be Gil Birmingham as a bereaved father suffering in the aftermath of his daughter’s murder.

Supplied Jeremy Renner (left) and Gil Birmingham in a scene from Wind River.
Supplied Jeremy Renner (left) and Gil Birmingham in a scene from Wind River.

A San Antonio, Tex. native of Comanche descent, Birmingham has an especially perfect scene with Renner at the end of the film, all the more impressive when, as Sheridan says, “We had 45 minutes to shoot it.”

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