Tyler Jacob Moore was immediately smitten when he first learn the script for the pilot episode of Hallmark’s new multigenerational household drama centered on a rodeo dynasty, Ride.
Moore shortly embraced the concept of this small city, rural ranching neighborhood led by a formidable matriarch, Isabel McMurray (Nancy Travis).
He was additionally struck by these three robust and unbiased feminine characters on the heart of Ride: Isabel, Missy McMurray (Tiera Skovbye), and Valeria Galindo (Sara Garcia), who’ve needed to battle with loss, the hardships of life, ranching, and attempting to maintain their beloved ranch afloat, whereas additionally supporting one another whereas pursuing their very own goals.
The collection begins with the aftermath of tragic loss and divulges how every character embarks on an empowering journey of transformation and self-discovery whereas additionally uncovering a twisted internet of secrets and techniques, threatening to tear the household and their small Colorado city aside.
Moore portrays Gus Booker, the charming son of an oil baron who has lengthy admired the rodeo profession of Missy McMurray and needs to put money into the ranch as a means of distancing himself from his household, however alongside the way in which, faces backlash from members of the McMurray household.
Best identified for his roles as Tony on Shameless and Prince Hans on Once Upon a Time, in his 15-year performing profession has additionally appeared in Seal Team, Chicago Fire, Perry Mason, and Grey’s Anatomy.
“When it comes to my character, Gus, I was drawn to the fact that it is complex,” Moore solely advised Monsters and Critics. “He grew up in affluence but never felt at home and is drawn to a simpler way of life.”
Moore added that the well-written scripts and extraordinary chemistry between the solid members authentically really feel like “that rare lightning in a bottle when everything is going so well, and you don’t want to miss a second of it.”
Read on for Moore’s behind-the-scenes take a look at the Hallmark collection Ride, working with Nancy Travis because the present’s matriarch, and what it’s prefer to spend time on a working ranch.
Monsters and Critics: Let’s begin with what attracted you to this collection and your character, Gus Booker.
Tyler Jacob Moore: I recognize that Gus views life as being extra about relationships and other people than cash and issues. He didn’t really feel at house the place he grew up, and now he’s going right into a world and form of falls in love with this ranching neighborhood, in addition to Missy McMurray.
So he additionally feels form of a little bit of an outsider right here, too. They view him as an outsider as a result of he grew up in affluence and wealth. He yearns for this house, this factor that they’ve, that the McMurrays have, which is that this pretty, familial love and assist and sense of house. I used to be drawn to that a part of the character.
M&C: Does Ride happen on an precise working ranch?
Tyler Jacob Moore: Yes. We shot up in Calgary on a working ranch. Which was fantastic acting-wise as a result of we didn’t need to think about a lot. Sometimes you do video video games or films the place it’s all inexperienced display, and also you’re on a sound stage, and a few prop man is holding a stand-in for an actual animal. But, thank goodness, on this present, it was all very actual.
When you see us doing chores or engaged on the ranch, we’re really doing these issues. One of the superb perks was really attending to do a few of these issues and really attending to exit right into a ranch and be a part of the life there.
M&C: What was one spotlight for you?
Tyler Jacob Moore: I get to nurse a child calf, and that occurred in actual life, and I bought to try this. My character needed to act like he was simply enamored and so completely satisfied to be doing it, so there was in all probability zero performing concerned as a result of I additionally was equally enamored with the entire scenario and beloved engaged on the ranch.
M&C: Can you journey horses?
Tyler Jacob Moore: Yes. I grew up in a rural neighborhood in southern Illinois, and so a number of my mates and neighbors had horses and farmland. I come from an space the place I used to be bailing hay on the McGee farms as a child. It’s been some time as a result of now I’m an actor, and I stay in LA, so I needed to form of get again on the saddle – pun meant. But it was pretty.
M&C: What was it prefer to journey once more?
Tyler Jacob Moore: It was pretty to get again on a horse and get again into that neighborhood and that life-style. And thank goodness we had wranglers and trainers that had been pretty and helped me get again on the saddle and helped another solid members get on one and navigate it.
M&C: How do you relate to enjoying the outsider?
Tyler Jacob Moore: Well, I feel rising up in a rural neighborhood the place there wasn’t a number of entry to the humanities – my health club instructor and my fifth-grade instructor principally invented a theater program for my small college as a result of it didn’t exist and we had a number of very proficient children in my class.
And so, I at all times form of felt having a little bit of an inventive bend, I felt a little bit of an outsider rising up like I didn’t fairly slot in there. I additionally, in actual life, felt like a little bit of an outsider as a result of I had come from a rural neighborhood the place the persons are extra provincial, and it’s form of a unique lifestyle. So, I actually associated to that side of Gus, solely perhaps in reverse order. It was near me. I instantly form of resonated together with his plight of desirous to discover a place the place he felt like he had neighborhood and a way of belonging and fighting that.
M&C: What do you assume you’ve discovered, each personally and professionally, from this collection? What are the takeaways for you?
Tyler Jacob Moore: Oh, a ton. Professionally I discovered rather a lot about manufacturing and the way it all works. And being on location for 4 months capturing up in Calgary, I discovered rather a lot about how all that works and the logistics of that. And how that is an ensemble solid so everyone works slightly in another way artistically and prepares in a novel means. So, that was nice to work with the opposite actors and collaborate and determine how one another labored and work collectively and compromise and discover methods into the scenes and the characters.
Then personally I feel engaged on the present gave me a number of hope, which sounds tacky however true. This is my first Hallmark undertaking on the whole, and I used to be blind to a number of who they’re and what they do. To discover a firm that professes to place the concept of affection and hope and positivity into the world whereas entertaining individuals is one factor.
The takeaway for me was a number of hope and a number of positivity and understanding that there are individuals on the market who’re attempting to make the world a greater place and supply good leisure for hard-working individuals who recognize and embrace romance and drama. Hallmark gives all of that. I actually couldn’t be extra thrilled to be engaged on Ride and to be part of the Hallmark household.
M&C: Do you are feeling after these episodes that you just’re extra inclined to hearken to nation music or to yearn to be again in that world?
Tyler Jacob Moore: I feel you’re proper; I feel I really am. Just the opposite day I had a rustic playlist on Spotify and, yeah, I in all probability wouldn’t have performed that earlier to this. It’s humorous as a result of I grew up in that space and was surrounded by nation music and listened to nation. I frolicked by campfires and did all that enjoyable stuff. It’s like coming again house in a means of all the things comes full circle. Here I’m, working for 15 years professionally as an actor and residing in cities, after which I discover myself again on the farm and loving each minute of it. Yes, you’re completely proper.
M&C: How do Shameless, Once Upon a Time, and your different roles all type of meld collectively? Or don’t they?
Tyler Jacob Moore: Yes, they do. I feel Shameless, particularly, was my first form of large break. It was an ensemble with a giant solid, and it was about household. That was the unique idea of the present. Obviously very totally different so far as content material and material, however the theme of working with a giant solid and younger actors who’re all very proficient. On the present Ride, I’ve a youthful member of the family that we work with that you just meet in a while within the season and he or she’s pretty and so candy. All these earlier roles actually ready me to work with children and to work with a giant solid. And the subject material of household and attempting to inform a narrative that revolves round households loving one another and doing their greatest and attempting to outlive in a really typically troublesome world to take action.
I feel Once Upon a Time and Barry and all the opposite issues I’ve had the nice fortune of engaged on actually helped put together me in my performing and in simply making ready for how one can navigate units and crew and take care of this job that may typically be overwhelming for those who’re not ready for it. So I really feel very lucky that I’ve been capable of work lengthy sufficient to form of have a superb sense and be ready for many issues that come my means for this present.
M&C: Talk about Nancy Travis’ character of Isabel, type of because the matriarch on the present, but additionally perhaps the matriarch of the ensemble household, the performing household.
Tyler Jacob Moore: That’s straightforward to speak about as a result of she is the matriarch of the household, and he or she is the matriarch of the solid. We all adore Nancy. She is as fantastic and charming and goofy and candy and caring and good and proficient as you’d hope she is. You see her resume; she’s been doing fantastic work for thus lengthy, and he or she’s so profitable. To then meet her and get to work along with her and know that she is simply as superb of a human as she is an actress; it was an actual pleasure. We have bonded simply as a solid, and he or she is form of the chief of the troupe. And I couldn’t ask for a greater instance to all of us on how one can be skilled, how one can transfer on the earth, and on units. And in efficiency, within the craft of performing, she’s simply unbelievable.
It’s humorous when the opposite solid members and I are requested about Nancy Travis, we get tongue-tied as a result of she has so many fantastic attributes that we’re confused typically as a result of we are able to’t at all times eloquently describe how fantastic she is. But she is all of the issues I discussed and far more.
M&C: What are a few causes you need us to look at Ride?
Tyler Jacob Moore: I feel everybody goes to adore it. I feel I don’t need to promote it. I feel the perfect half about doing this present and selling this present is we don’t need to put something on. It is sweet. You’re going to love it. Your readers are going to like the romance and the drama. There’s one thing for everybody within the household.
I keep in mind when Sunday was household TV night time. But now if the generations of a household are in the identical room, they’re all on separate screens and a few individuals have their Air Pods in or headphones on; everyone’s form of doing their very own factor. This is a kind of few exhibits and bits of leisure that everybody can get pleasure from; there may be completely one thing for everybody.
M&C: Such as?
Tyler Jacob Moore: There is a household drama, there’s romance, there are intense moments, emotional stakes are excessive, and the stakes of the present are excessive. Some of that is life and loss of life and households attempting to outlive. Overall, it’s actually an excessive amount of enjoyable.
It’s wildly charming, and I feel everyone within the household will get pleasure from it. I actually like that you may all watch it. Whatever age, gender, tradition, or background, you may all sit down collectively and watch one thing and equally be entertained and have one thing that you are able to do collectively as a household. So, I couldn’t be happier about that.
Ride premieres on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, March 26, 9/8c.