First Cow’s Orion Lee on onscreen male friendships – NEWS.com.au

Harry and Lloyd, Woody and Buzz, and Troy and Abed. There is no shortage of male friendships on screen but few if any are like Cookie and King-Lu, the leads in First Cow.Directed by Kelly Reichardt, First Cow bears the beloved indie director’s trademark stoicism and taciturn characters and centres its story on two unlikely friends in 1820 frontier Oregon.
Both men are from somewhere else – Cookie (John Magaro) from the US east coast and King-Lu (Orion Lee) from China – but here they meet, unwittingly…

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