Rufus is the villain, quiet but menacing in his deadly (and explosive) confrontations; Nat is the hero, the protagonist to cheer on. Those lines blur as the movie progresses.
Rufus and his gang's criminal motives are part of a plan to fund a town for and by Black people. And even "as tough, wild and skilled of a killer that Nat is, he suffers from arrested development, like everyone does who's experienced trauma," Majors says.
Majors mined his own childhood trauma to tap into the onscreen fear.
"I wasn't quite tall (and) I didn't get strong … for a while, and I grew up very impoverished. And because of that, I was picked on a lot," he says. "I remembered that feeling. It made me feel very small and very ashamed." He said there are still times "when you feel like that little poor kid in Texas."
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