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Up the hills, around to the draage they go. He knows she’s nearby, but not this close—jt off the other si of the tree he’s crouchg next to. She is <em>right there</em>, all 150-some-pounds of her. </p><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">They lock ey. Five sends. Seven sends. A long fuckg time. He’s not sred. He’s phoric. He wants one click of the ame. He pleads wh her to stay. “Listen,” he os, “I jt want to take your picture. </p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“You’re fuckg betiful.” </p><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">She don’t listen and turns back up the mounta. Gone. For now. But he se her aga. He heads out howlg for her ls than twenty-four hours later and fds her not far om here. This time, he’s fast enough wh the phone’s mera.</p><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="5" class="align-center size-large embed css-d9wkvk e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="3600" height="2400" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-1gccgwy e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Shirt by Kenh Cole.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">ERIC RAY DAVIDSON</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Three weeks later and a thoand away, Ksch is showg me the vio of their send n . “Man, we n talk this sh all day,” he says. The problem is—as I watch her hd legs stter out of ame, quizzg him about the size of a wolf’s home and how they hunt—Ksch is not talkg about himself, which is why I’m here. </p><p data-no-id="7" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Unls he is talkg about himself. </p><style data-emotn="css 18pb4rg">{borr:0;borr-bottom:th solid black;marg:1.875rem 0;clear:both;}</style><hr data-no-id="8" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="9" class="body-dropp css-1nhwtgm et3p2gv0">For a guy who's worked as long as Ksch—that’d be two s—you’ll fd relatively few terviews wh him on the ter. Up until a few months ago, he didn’t even have someone handlg prs for him. “We’re fightg for <em>Playgirl</em>,” Ksch, forty-one, jok when I ask what we should expect om his new publicist. “Right now, ’s between me and twenty other guys.” Instead, he has chugged along the Hollywood game by flat out refg to play . But he’s got some big projects g—<em>The Termal List</em> on Amazon, out now; <em>Pakiller </em>on Netflix, later—so here we are the rtrant of Casa l Mar hotel Santa Moni lookg at pictur of wolv, which make up what feels like a sizable portn of his iPhone photo library. </p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="10" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="2400" height="2794" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Shirt by Kenh Cole. </div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">ERIC RAY DAVIDSON</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">He’s got no clue what time is, but he is hungry. He was Monte Carlo all weekend dog promo and flew thirteen hours yterday. He n’t believe I didn’t choose to meet Montana stead. “Why wouldn’t you go to fuckg Bozeman?” he asks. Why wouldn’t I? Schlg, of urse. So rather than see the new property that he jt bought way out of town, where he wants to build a nonprof, maybe an addictn center, we’re stg over a table ltered wh a chicken club sandwich and salad (for him), a burger and i (for me), and bottomls mugs of ffee wh oat k (for both of ). </p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The wall of wdows jt a few tabl away, lookg right out over the beach, asslts wh views of sun, sand, and fflg palm-tree leav. It’s late June and exactly the sort of day that people who love Los Angel thk no visor uld refe. “I’ve hated this place a long time,” he says, almost amed and squtg the glare. </p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Born Kelowna, Brish Columbia, Ksch grew up a trailer wh his mom and two olr brothers. Dad left when he was one. Eventually two much younger half-sisters joed. He played lots of hockey, until his knee got bted. Twice. </p><p data-no-id="14" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 2002, at the enuragement of a molg sut, he moved to New York. He booked jobs wh brands like Abercrombie & Fch and Diel, and went well until didn’t. Out of work, he bounced between the uch of iends and the floors of New York Cy subways. Wh a n of actg class unr his belt, he went wt and spent four months livg out of his r Los Angel, workg as a personal traer between dns for gigs he pretty much never got. He hled his way back to Canada wh ltle to show for how much that last stretch sucked. But Ksch is not a quter. He kept sendg tap and small rol fally me. <em>The Covenant</em>. <em>Snak on a Plane</em>. <em>John Tucker Mt Die</em>. His big break arrived when Peter Berg st him as Dillon Panthers fullback Tim Riggs on NBC’s <em>Friday Night Lights</em>. </p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">He and Berg kept workg together—on <em>Battlhip</em> (2012) and <em>Lone Survivor </em>(2013), both for the big screen. (They team up aga for <em>Pakiller</em>, out late 2022 or early 2023, and they’ve got somethg on tap about the Amerin Wt’s vlent begng if a platform will be.) “We love phg each other,” Ksch says of their partnership. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="16" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="iday night lights leave no one behd episo 14 air date 02012008 pictured taylor ksch as tim riggs photo by bill rerdsnbcu photo banknbcuniversal via getty imag via getty imag" tle="Friday Night Lights" loadg="lazy" width="2008" height="3000" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Taylor Ksch as Tim Riggs <em>Friday Night Lights</em>.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">NBC</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">You know who also lov phg Ksch? Ksch. If you had even the slightt pulse, Tim Riggs, a sweaty, smolrg lost puppy, did somethg for you. But servg as a talyst for the sexual awakeng of untls young women don’t guarantee a path forward, and after the seri wrapped, Ksch stggled, he felt, to be seen as a character actor. Early big-budget feature stgs, like the ill-fated sci-fi circ <em>John Carter</em>—the film that was gog to make him the biggt movie star on the pla until didn’t—hardly helped. He got picky. Played a firefighter, a gay-rights activist, a uple SEALs. Guys wh badg. A man wh a cult. Except none of them that straightforward, bee Ksch don’t play anythg straightforward. It don’t always work, but he’s always gog for . Searchg for layers. He fds them prep, a procs to which he ms himself so fully that he has, on more than one ocsn, required the help of a therapist to shed the personas when filmg wraps. </p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">He’s picked up another hab along the way: appearg movi and TV shows that are te stori. In other words, embodyg men who have sr of iends, fay members, or former followers who’d quickly spot any flatns or too-smooth curv. “I want Game Seven,” he says of that extra layer of expectatn. “I love the rponsibily.” </p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Sometim that giv back. Like the muny of SEALs and their fai that embraced him after <em>Lone Survivor</em>. Marc Luttrell, the real-life lone survivor, is a iend. Tomorrow, he’ll meet up wh the guy—a heavily rated SEAL himself—who traed him for his role the film. They text equently, though ’s better if Ksch don’t say about what. “The humor, man,” he teas. “It’s ridiculo.” Not everyone would get . But he do. </p><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Sometim ’s harr to rry. Like the six months he spent readyg himself to play the lear of the Branch Davidians 2018’s <em>Wa</em>. He showed up to the first meetg wh seri creators John Erick and Drew Dowdle already ep rearch, got the gig, and then spiraled so far to David Korh’s psyche that he eventually uldn’t believe he’d taken the part at all. Jt weeks before filmg, Ksch told his team they had to get him out. “Take a breath,” they said, tryg to lm him down. It didn’t work. “I was like <em>okay</em>…” Big pse. "But try and get me out." It wasn't funny then—not even close—but he's absolutely tickled today at the memory. Green ey glowg, hunched forward to chuckle together, which we do, at jt how crazy actors n be even though the actor this moment is him. </p><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="21" class="align-center size-large embed css-d9wkvk e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="2400" height="3342" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-1gccgwy e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Jacket by Dolce & Gabbana; Shirt by Kenh Cole; Jeans by Rowan.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">ERIC_RAY_DAVIDSON</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="22" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It's a perfect example of how he scrib himself elsewhere durg our nversatn: “I chase lghs,” he says of his downtime personaly. Or how Drew Dowdle do. “There’s a real mischievo nature to Taylor that I fd so fun,” he says, “He has that for days.” Director Joseph Kosski, who worked wh Ksch on <em>Only the Brave,</em> agre: “He’s also got an credible sense of humor that I thk is his secret weapon.”</p><p data-no-id="23" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But ’s also an illtratn of why he says no to offers far more than he says y. “I don’t know that a lot of people would have the urage to go there so unapologetilly,” says John Erick Dowdle. “It was his bon.” The producer rells spendg several hours one eveng stg his driveway, speakg on the phone to Ksch, mid-spiral, about the terror of the role. The humany of the role. “I saw no ristance him after that pot,” he adds. “He’s got a real toughns to him.” </p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Or, as Ksch says, once you m, “’s your life now.”<br /></p><hr data-no-id="25" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="26" class="body-dropp css-1nhwtgm et3p2gv0">Last October, Ksch woke up Toronto and uldn’t talk. It was day one of filmg <em>Pakiller</em> and his face had swollen up to the size of a melon. He was pletely unregnizable. Tellg me this now, his ey win at the memory. He mov his hands along his cheekbon, up to his ears and down to his jaw, curlg his fgers to illtrate jt how swollen his face had bee. It hurt. Bad. And he didn’t know why. </p><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="27" class="align-center size-large embed css-d9wkvk e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="2500" height="900" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-1gccgwy e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div><p data-no-id="28" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The first doctor he spoke to told him to take some Advil. That wouldn’t cut . He iced his face and lled another, panicked. Eventually, he was wag outsi the hoe of a lol specialist. “That’s how leg the pa was,” he says. “I was eakg out.”</p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It’s not the first time a health problem has flared up on set. In 2010, durg filmg for <em>John Carter</em>, he passed out om exhstn. A doctor told him that his thyroid was basilly implodg. While makg <em>Lone Survivor</em>, there were many morngs when his assistant had to lerally pull him out of bed and drive him the two hours up to the New Mexi mountas to shoot gelg war scen. He’d traed for this, hard. It didn’t matter. “I jt had to lay down,” he remembers. He spent the time between tak on the ground.</p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“You n drk fifty of the,” he says, gturg to the mugs of ffee between , “and do nothg for you when you’re msed up. You know.”</p><p data-no-id="31" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I do know. The butterfly-shaped gland my own neck implod, though for different reasons. And for more than a now, Ksch and I have begun our morngs the same way, wh a ty tablet of man-ma thyroid hormone. It’s a system well sued to the stat quo, ls so to the extreme. Go too hard for too long and the sl tip, never the right way. You get tired. The kd no amount of sleep n fix. Deprsed, Ksch says, and I agree, bee “you have no energy to do anythg.”</p><p data-no-id="32" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The Toronto flare-up was different, a rult of an aggrsive new teeth-grdg hab—strs. So six months ago, he started sleepg wh a night guard his mouth. “Seventy percent of people have to,” he says, cg a stat I’ve never heard before and haven’t been able to nfirm sce. There go the se. I am picturg Ksch poppg a sp-filled ntal tray, and he knows . “Ma me feel way better,” he says. </p><p data-no-id="33" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Pakiller</em>, based part on Patrick Radn Keefe’s <style data-emotn="css umdwtv">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="New Yorker article" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0"><em>New Yorker</em> article</a> “The Fay That Built an Empire of Pa,” will see Ksch play Glen Kryger, a good and regular guy who los much to an Oxy addictn. Ksch’s attachment to the show is more personal than anythg else on his résumé. Someone his life stggled wh addictn mightily, for years—opids and amphetam. He looked after the person. Went to "hell and back seventeen tim" wh them. </p><p data-no-id="34" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The first time Ksch read the script for the seri, he uldn’t get through . Although the person he took re of is now clean, he experienced a flood of emotn. “Everythg we had gone through was still right there,” he says. Surg back alleys for someone important to him. Bookg rehabs jt to lose the down payments when they’d n away. Which they did. A lot. Watchg them die jt so they uld e back to life and die aga. Watchg them tox. Lghg. That’s what Ksch gets—what the SEALs get. That sometim life is so bleak and hard and terrifyg that the only natural rponse is to lgh s face. </p><p data-no-id="35" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">So many tim stick out. Like the time this person cled admissn to a sober-livg facily on acunt of vib. “That’s how bad the exce was,” he says, lghg aga some ten years later. Or the time when he was out on his bike when the facily—different one—lled. Could he e back? The person he dropped off, they n’t stay. Brought dgs to their room. He n’t believe , or the person’s reasong when he arriv. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="36" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="3840" height="2400" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Ksch as Ben Edwards <em>The Termal List</em>.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">Amazon</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“Beg sober is so fuckg borg!” they choke out.</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“I was like, ‘So am I fuckg super borg?’” Ksch asked.</p><p data-no-id="39" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Affirmative. “You n be kd of fuckg borg.”</p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">He lghs aga. </p><p data-no-id="41" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Ksch’s never done hard dgs. Alhol, sure. But he hadn’t even touched weed until the set of 2012’s <em>Savag</em>, which he filmed at the age of thirty. It tak only two fgers to unt how many tim he’s touched sce. To play Glen Kryger <em>Pakiller</em>, he sent the producers pag of not and brought on an advisor. Before filmg, he gaed a bunch of weight—a procs he did not enjoy. Still, ’s the “most fulfillg job I’ve ever done,” he says. </p><p data-no-id="42" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">His next project, <em>The Termal List</em>, is out now. Ksch plays former SEAL and current CIA operative Ben Edwards oppose Chris Pratt’s Jam Reece, a recently shell-shocked SEAL wh a need for revenge that even he's not entirely sure he n tst. Ben’s got a distctive look: knuckle tattoos, Baja hoodi, a beard, long hair. All Ksch. Every SEAL is different, so he won’t play any of them the same. “I fought for that,” he says. “He stands out.” </p><p data-no-id="43" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The show mov, for the most part, wh a whe-knuckled grip on s missn. But watch a <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="recent vis Pratt and Ksch paid to Jam Corn’s uch" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">recent vis Pratt and Ksch paid to Jam Corn’s uch</a> and you’ll fd a host—and dience—doubled over before the terview even begs due to a downright giddy dance sequence. Pratt toss out jazz hands. Ksch shimmi. They both n place. Totally unrehearsed, much like a few well-placed moments the Amazon seri. While Ksch was talks for the role, he sent back a bunch of not—pickg up on the pattern here?—one beg that they need to add a few bt-ups. SEAL humor. Ksch humor. Pratt, an executive producer on the seri, agreed, but the zgers, which e maly durg a late-chapter road trip, were all improv. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="44" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="3900" height="2601" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Pratt and Ksch <em>The Termal List</em>.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">Amazon</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="45" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">They served a siar purpose behd the scen for Pratt. Before the shoot, Pratt had been filmg alone for about a month, his character on a (very bloody) solary qut. “I was dog a lot—producg and actg on such a dark seri,” he rells. “Taylor would e humor to check , make sure I wasn’t losg my md, feel me out, give me support.” Once they were back on set together, the mood lifted: “We lghed a lot, said appropriate sh, chewed tobac, perdilly discsed the state of our liv and the world, talked about wolv and bears and jt hung out.”</p><p data-no-id="46" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Where do they go om here? Pratt says if life ever imat art and he needs someone to take down a highly personalized revenge list, he expects Ksch will take the ll. “Fully.”</p><hr data-no-id="47" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="48" class="body-dropp css-1nhwtgm et3p2gv0">When Ksch booked <em>Friday Night Lights</em>, he didn’t know where At was on a map. He moved for productn and loved . Built himself a big hoe. But At kept changg, and so did Ksch. It was gettg crowd, maly wh people who like a crowd. At this pot his life, “I don’t go out,” he says. Soon, “there weren’t many like-md people for me.”</p><p data-no-id="49" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">He’d spent a few Christmas Yellowstone, chasg wolv, mera tow. And durg the panmic, he and a buddy found themselv more than once ridg their motorcycl through Big Sky. It felt like home. In 2021, he sold the “stupid hoe that I didn’t need” At and head north.</p><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="50" class="align-center size-large embed css-d9wkvk e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="2400" height="3291" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-1gccgwy e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Jacket by Dolce & Gabbana; Shirt by Kenh Cole; Jeans by Rowan.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">ERIC RAY DAVIDSON</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="51" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“I live que simply,” he says of his current setup. Four blocks om downtown a hoe that sounds like ’s maly rated by oversized prts of his own wildlife photography, a passn he picked up preppg for <em>The </em><em>Bang Bang Club</em>, which he played photojournalist Kev Carter. There’s a pat that, when the weather allows, mak for a pretty sick spot to watch hockey. A few iends nearby. What about a girliend? A sheepish “maybe” is all he’ll allow.</p><p data-no-id="52" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“It’s clearly important to him to rema an outsir,” says Pratt, “and foster the necsary space required for him to fd his characters, to fd himself.” </p><p data-no-id="53" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It might be more than that. Speak to Ksch long enough and you start to get the feelg that ’s not jt a new home he found Montana but an old one. Bozeman remds him of Kelowna maybe more than Kelowna the days. That ltle town—the one where he spent his formative years “up the fort on adventur”—is, as he says, fuckg amazg. Dad even moved back. But ’s changed. Ksch don’t really say how. </p><p data-no-id="54" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Now he spends his off days ursg the hills trackg wildlife, takg pictur. Alone but out of his head. Adventurg, up the fort. “As you get olr,” he allows, “you’re gog back to what you remember.” </p><p data-no-id="55" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Will you stay? </em></p><p data-no-id="56" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“I mean, where the fuck else am I gog to go now?”</p><hr data-no-id="57" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><p data-no-id="58" class="body-dropp css-1nhwtgm et3p2gv0">Have you ever seen a wolf puppy drk k om a baby’s bottle? I have. It’s on a vio on Ksch’s phone. It is sanely adorable. Raven and Shiloh, two shocks of fur, one black, one whe, oversized paws flailg, are beg ddled by two grown men—Ksch’s dad and brother—absolutely lighted by their snack. </p><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="59" class="align-center size-large embed css-d9wkvk e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="2500" height="900" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-1gccgwy e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div><p data-no-id="60" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Y, his dad. The one who left when he was a baby. Growg up, Ksch would see him once, maybe twice a year. But last week, when this clip I’m watchg was rerd, was jt the send time Ksch had seen him the last seventeen years. He me down to Montana, and Ksch is happy he did. “It was ol to see him jt the moment,” Ksch says. “That’s a memory he’s gog to have forever.” </p><p data-no-id="61" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Ksch never felt any hate toward his father—“You harbor that sh…’ll jt eat you up.” Still, ’s hard to picture many men wh siar backgrounds speakg so gently about their own pops. “I wouldn’t be where I am today if he was around,” he says to that. Acrdg to Ksch, his dad's leavg ma him realize he uld one day get out of town on his own terms, too. But was harr on Ksch’s brothers. They were olr, had more time wh him. And now they have kids of their own. It’s plited. “What am I gog to do?” He says of his dad, who's seventy-four and had a stroke a few years ago. “Rip him half?” </p><p data-no-id="62" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Ksch wants kids of his own. He me close, a long time ago. “It wouldn’t have been great,” he says. For the relatnship—pecially for the reer. “You shut down and start dog sh for money,” he says. </p><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="63" class="align-center size-large embed css-d9wkvk e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="d" tle="d" loadg="lazy" width="2400" height="3600" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-1gccgwy e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-8h7i7x e1xqj1sx1">Jacket by Dolce & Gabbana; Shirt by Kenh Cole. </div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1mcfn5x e6iqd2">ERIC RAY DAVIDSON</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="64" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Ice Age 12</em>, I float, is not on the visn board? </p><p data-no-id="65" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“Oh, I’ll do voice-over sh,” he says, havg fun now. “But do I want to do <em>Saw 9-14</em>? Probably not.” The cheeks beg to gather, movg upward. “But I’m also for sale. If they want to give me $10 ln a movie, I’ll go do <em>Saw fuckg 9-14</em>.” </p><p data-no-id="66" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I’d do for so much ls, I tell him. </p><p data-no-id="67" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Se wins. “Same. I jt wanted to sound like I’m not that cheap.”</p><p data-no-id="68" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But Ksch has done a lot of parentg, I feel pelled to pot out. It’s an epiphany Ksch said he’s also had recently. At a weddg, speakg wh a woman who’s a mother to ne children, he realized he’s already gone through a lot of this parentg sh. He was fourteen when his first sister was born. A send followed. He’s the male figure both their liv. He took re of someone stgglg to stay sober. It’s been, at tim, a lot of rponsibily, and he’s enjoyg this moment where everyone’s grown. </p><p data-no-id="69" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Everyone’s good. </p><p data-no-id="70" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">So now he spends some of this well-earned time trackg wolv. Durg our nversatn, he shows me a handful of photos and vios of them, and shar facts about their weight, diet, and ntg. What's your attachment to the animals? I ask him.<strong> </strong>They’re fay-oriented, he says. They're also credibly tough to track. The reasons start g faster. Why not the wolf? <em>How</em> not the wolf, his tone suggts. “They're stunng,” he ntu. Unrdogs, too. 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