Imogen Poots

Imogen Poots

Lesley Edith
Imogen Poots

Imogen Poots

Lesley Edith
Imogen Poots

Imogen Poots

Lesley Edith
Imogen Poots

Imogen Poots

Lesley Edith
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July 20, 2022
In The Mix

Imogen Poots Has Range

The English actress opens up about Outer Range, a modern Western-meets-Twilight Zone series for Prime Video.

Rachel Ng

The fascination for the American West that lingers with London-born Imogen Poots began when she filmed the 2011 Fright Night remake in Albuquerque. "We were out there in the land," she says. "Just seeing the sunsets alone, I felt the presence of something."

Poots has lived in New York and California, but her time in New Mexico made a profound impression. "Being out there highlighted the real America, outside of a bubble, where conversations about politics might be different," she says. "I was able to have an honest understanding of America as a country — and as many different countries at once."

A decade later, Poots was back in New Mexico — Santa Fe and Las Vegas — to shoot Amazon Prime's new Outer Range, created and executive-produced by Brian Watkins. In the eight-episode modern Western-meets-Twilight Zone series, Poots stars opposite Josh Brolin, who plays Royal Abbott, a Wyoming rancher fighting to save his property while grappling with a mysterious black hole at the edge of his land. Poots's character, Autumn, has traveled from Colorado and convinced the Abbotts to let her camp on their land.

The series opens with the tightknit Abbotts coping with the disappearance of a daughter-in-law even as they deal with an ambitious rival ranching family. "There's a lot of deeper questions there outside of the family dynamic," Poots says.

The actress made her debut on the British medical drama Casualty in 2004, and over the following years appeared in movies such as V for Vendetta, 28 Weeks Later and The Father. In 2020, she returned to television in HBO's Emmy-winning I Know This Much Is True. Outer Range is her first Western.

"I love, for complicated reasons and great reasons, the Western genre in movies, books and songs," Poots says. "I didn't realize that yearning until I read this script and I was like, 'Oh, this is exactly what I've been longing to do.'"


This article originally appeared in emmy magazine issue #7, 2022, under the title, "Into the Wild."

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