ansonmountdaily:I got lucky. I routinely did not get hired in period pieces because casting direct
ansonmountdaily: I got lucky. I routinely did not get hired in period pieces because casting directors always told me I was too contemporary, whatever that means. I’m not sure how someone can look too contemporary. They still had two nostrils in the 19th century, I think. - Anson Mount about getting cast as Cullen Bohannon in Hell on Wheels (2011-2016) after being rejected from a number of period movies and tv series -- source link