Dougray Scott is just how I imagine Caleb Stewart to look – rugged, outdoorsy, and physically dominant. Famously, Dougray missed out on playing Wolverine in the feature film version of X-Men because he was the filming Mission Impossible 2 (he was the villain – hand-picked by Tom Cruise) and it ran into overtime. He was forced to withdraw from the Wolverine role, to be replaced by Hugh Jackman.
Five things you might not know about Caleb.
- As a ranchero, Caleb has seen years of boom and bust. The golden years for rancheros – the California Cattle Boom years – were 1849 – 1862. Caleb’s father died in 1853, so he had nearly ten good years running the show before disaster struck.
- From 1862, a series of catastrophic climatic events occurred. Firstly, a deluge of Biblical proportions drowned possibly a quarter of all the stock in the state. And that was followed by two years of drought when the grass disappeared and starving cattle were sold for a pittance. When the drought ended, cattle raising was no longer the dominant economic activity in California, and Caleb, as one of the areas biggest landowners, had to adjust to the changed circumstances fast or go under, like many around him did.
- His middle name – Martinez – comes from his mother’s Spanish heritage, which he cherishes as much as his father’s Scottish one.
- Caleb is a natural innovator and adventurer who has been forced to dig in and choose the conservative route to protect his family interests. He does not want to do anything that will threaten that legacy, even if it would be personally beneficial.
- The French woman Madeleine Laurent challenges all the rules he’s tried to set for his sister Josefa, with little effect as it turns out.
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