Graham McTavish Says New Movie About Montana Rancher ‘Is About Tolerance’ (Unique)

Outlander‘s Graham McTavish is not any stranger to sweeping landscapes.

The actor, 64, who’s starring within the new indie movie, Someplace in Montana, says capturing within the Large Sky state felt very harking back to the Scottish Highlands in his homeland. “I would by no means been there earlier than; it is a really stunning state,” he tells PEOPLE. “It was simply beautiful, beautiful.”

The actor was much more enamored with the locals he met. “They’re so related to the surroundings round them, the land and the character,” he says. “I like the best way they dwell. It is a quite simple, easy life.”

Within the movie, written and directed by Brandon Smith, McTavish portrays rugged Montana cattle rancher, John Alexander, who’s compelled to lease his property to a film manufacturing with a purpose to stave off monetary smash. His conservative character clashes with the extra liberal director (performed by Matt Drago) and the 2 should discover a strategy to resolve their variations.

“I simply beloved the story, actually. I beloved the connection between the 2 essential characters and the way totally different they’re,” the actor explains. “They signify polar opposites, actually, and I feel it is a topic that is actually price exploring.”

Set in opposition to the backdrop of Glacier Nationwide Park, the story “is about tolerance, acceptance of various factors of view,” McTavish provides. “I feel it is essential to have a good time that and to grasp that folks do not all the time agree and so they can actually fairly passionately disagree, nevertheless it does not imply which you could’t sit down and have a drink and assist somebody. I assumed it was an important message.”

John “does not have something to show to anyone,” McTavish says. “That form of no-nonsense, precisely like my dad, simply let you know like it’s vitality. And it isn’t that they are unafraid, that they do not really feel worry. They’re simply very comfy with who they’re. So I discovered him such a superb character. I beloved him.”

McTavish obtained to reprise one other one among his beloved characters, Dougal MacKenzie, for season seven of the Starz hit sequence Outlander. “It is so unusual. After we began that present, we actually had no concept that it might be so in style,” he says. “However there’s really not a day that goes by the place it does not contact my life indirectly. Anyone coming as much as me or anyone asking me a query, it comes up rather a lot. And I am very happy with it. I beloved going again to be Dougal.”

The actor will subsequent be seen within the Starz sequence, Spartacus: Home of Asher, enjoying a former gladiator who received his freedom within the enviornment. “He is man, really. He is a good man. He is truthful and constant,” McTavish says of the position. “So he is not duplicitous and manipulative and any of that form of factor, however he is not shy of a struggle. Sure, he will get into just a few scraps, nevertheless it was nice enjoyable.”

Plus, “I had a [long haired] wig,” he says, laughing. “I am continually tossing my head. They needed to inform me to cease.”

When he is not working or at residence along with his spouse of 1 yr, skincare model co-founder Garance Doré, McTavish is spending time along with his two daughters, Honor and Hope, whom he shares with ex-wife Gwen Isaac. The actor, who based McTavish Spirits in Aug. 2023, most lately launched a bourbon named after his daughters.

“I used to be more than happy, apparently it offered out,” he says. “I am slowly making an attempt to increase in our retail facet as a result of we do not need to overstretch ourselves as a result of it has been a really, very steep studying curve for me. However I’ve obtained a extremely nice staff that work with me who’re really actually good at this form of factor.”

Followers of McTavish might even flip watching Spartacus alongside along with his bourbon right into a sport. “For each individual that [my character] kills, you must drink,” he jokes. “Some episodes can be simpler than others.”

Someplace in Montana is now enjoying in choose theaters with plans to increase in late February. Spartacus: Home of Ashur premieres this fall on Starz.