LAND of MILK and HONEY

I remember one scene, when we were all around this cow and it decided it was going to wee,” recalls Orion Lee, one of the two lead actors in Kelly Reichardt’s minor miracle of a film. “And oh my gosh, the bladder on a cow! There was this huge puddle. And the smell! We had to move away and start again.”

Well, they do say never work with animals. But before we paint too dark a picture of Evie, the two-year-old Jersey who is the titular star of Reichardt’s seventh feature, let it be said that she was, when not weeing, a pleasure to work with. “She’s a super-sweet animal,” stresses Reichardt. “She had a great temperament and tolerated us. It’s more about training the crew to slow down and become quieter and to work against the normal vibe, because crews are normally wild and fast-moving.”

“She was a very friendly beast,” smiles Lee’s co-star, John Magaro. “Those moments in the field at night when