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The feud, the proud, the 'Hatfields & McCoys' By Jacqueline Cutler © Zap2it side of Bucharest, Roma- nia, the sun sets early over bare trees. It's silent until galloping becomes audible, and Kevin Costner, looking perfectly natural, rides up on a large black horse. The cast of History's Deep in the woods out- "Hatfields & McCoys," a miniseries airing over three consecutive nights begin- ning Monday, May 28, races against the fading sunlight to shoot a scene. A little later, as the almost unrecognizable from the clean-cut polygamist on "Big Love." To build a character, Paxton says, "The first thing I like to do is find something they wrote. He left no record; he could not read. He could not write. I went to Pikeville (Ky.) to hear the accent." Though McCoy may makeup artist deftly re- moves a beard, which made Costner look old and grungy, he reflects on the historical feud that lured him to produce and star in his major foray into televi- sion. "Anybody who goes have left no written record, Paxton's great-great- grandfather, Elijah Paxton, a Confederate soldier, did. And Paxton used letters Elijah wrote to his wife to inform his character. Mare Winningham Jim Vance, Devil Anse's uncle. Tom Berenger de- scribes his character as a "raccoon with rabies, a psychopath, a misogynist, and throw in a pinch of Bruce Dern. That's the recipe." There's a scene in which Another Hatfield kin is Uncle Jim whips the wife of his grandnephew, Johnse, bolstering this description. "They are a bunch of through war is marked," Costner says of his char- acter, Devil Anse, patriarch of the Hatfields. "Anybody who has killed is marked, or has seen somebody killed is marked. How do you ever truly recover? He went on to father children, create an entrepreneurial business." "Like any man of war, he plays McCoy's wife, Sally. When Costner called to ask her about moving to Romania for a few months, Winningham recalls responding, " 'Oh, do I get to be married to you?' It would have been the fourth time. I don't know if we were married in 'Wyatt Earp.' I was his whore." Instead, Hatfield's wife, Levicy, is played by Sarah Parish ("Dr. Who"), who says it's surreal to be British in a Western and to play Costner's wife. "I've had some is not willing to fight over anything," Costner says. "There's a serenity to Devil Anse." Yet he fights for decades with Randall McCoy (Bill Paxton) and his family. Paxton, sporting a bushy beard and long hair, is husbands in my time," Parish says, "but he's up there as No. 1." The miniseries has ev- eryone age 30 years, and Parish, who is 43, was playing 21 the next day. "I have no idea what time makeup is," she says. "But I reckon I'll come in at 3 in the morning." hillbillies that went at each other," says Berenger, who looks pretty comfortable with a gun. "I can really shoot," he says. And the accent came easily to him because he lives in South Carolina. "This is more mountain, more twangy," he says. "I've had more fun doing this than I have had in a long time," Berenger says. "The huge cast is fun. It's like 'Platoon.' It's a lot of guys and a lot of humor going on. It's like being on a sports team." Over dinner, the cama- between a Hatfield boy and a McCoy girl, the terrific courtroom fight over a pig — presided over Judge Wall Hatfield (Powers Boothe) — and revenge fueled the family feud. "These two names that That relationship hate each other are abso- lutely linked," Costner says. "Wouldn't they be horrified if they knew?" Still, fighting was simpler then, which Costner says has its benefits. "No lawyers, no publi- cists," he says. "You didn't have people to get in the middle." The Hatfield and McCoy names resonate in that part of the country, says Holbrook, who grew up in Pike County, where his father is a coal miner. He calls Romania "the wild, wild East. If you get out of Bucharest, people are still driving carts." It is an obvious question raderie is evident when Matt Barr ("Hellcats") and Boyd Holbrook ("Milk"), who play Hatfield brothers Johnse and Cap, knock back shots of grappa and horse around. As Johnse, Barr is Catch the Craze & Save! Save on Rentals • Breakfast Get Free Glass Cleaner Save on a Quilt shirtless in a number of scenes, and there's one in which he and Roseanna McCoy (Lindsay Pulsipher) skinny-dip. "Once you get nekkid in front of the crew, you can do anything," Barr says. as to why an iconic Ameri- can story is being told in a country where the Soviet influence remains palpable. Executive producer Leslie Greif explains, "Everything is more cost-effective, and working conditions are very pro-production." Greif talks from a tent, where a space heater makes it cozy during win- ter. After three months, the cast is accustomed to the packs of dogs roaming the edges of the forest. 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