March 15, 2021
Tom Hanks gets his picture taken with the Kiowa cast and elder Dorothy WhiteHorse on the New Mexico set of “News of the World.” (Photo courtesy of Lynda DeLaune)
“I can look you in the eye and just about tell sincerity in somebody,” said Kiowa elder Dorothy WhiteHorse DeLaune, who built an enduring friendship with a young German actress on a New Mexico movie set.
“I knew she was a special child, there was nothing snobby or anything,” WhiteHorse, 88, said of Helena Zengel, who was 10 at the time. “If she found me on the set, she’d come over and get her little chair and sit with me.”
March 16, 2021
Gary Tsoodle poses with Kiowa elder Dorothy WhiteHorse, who coached the 10-year-old star of “News of the World,” on set in New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of Lynda DeLaune)
After nearly 30 years of playing Indigenous characters, Gary Tsoodle finally played someone from his Kiowa Tribe.
His star may be rising after his role as the chief in “News of the World,” starring Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel.
Tsoodle, 62, who has acted in “Last of the Dogmen” and “Last of the Mohicans,” learned he would portray the Kiowa chief shortly after arriving at the cast’s hotel in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2019.