How Kim Coates Nailed the Audition for Brigham Young (American Primeval)

[@gapper3]

Kim is so good at playing very bad guys that I'd be scared if I met him in real life.

[@cralvertos]

😂😂😂

[@ladylaynefairchild8146]

He seems like such a sweetheart in contrast to his bad guy characters

[@LowPlainsDrifter60]

It would appear that whenever a menacing character is required in a western, call Kim Coates.

[@John-nx9hx]

"menacing character'' in any genre, he seems to just exude evilness very well.

[@highthoughts5317]

I cracked up laughing and cheered out loud when I saw Kim was the one playing Brigham!!! Loved him so much in SOA. I grew up in Salt Lake City, 110% immersed in LDS culture. I never even heard of the Mountain Meadows massacre until taking Utah history in college. That was 35 years ago. This movie was incredible! So glad someone finally told the story really well. Love Taylor Kitsch also!

[@MbisonBalrog]

Is miniseries

[@dbadagna]

Except the victims were Arkansas Methodists, not Mormons.

[@fistswithyatoes]

Coates is one of the most underrated actors ever. Love him in everything he's ever done!

[@DoyleHargraves]

Kim is one of the best character actors ever. I'd like to see Kim Coates, Walton Goggins, and Billy Bob Thorton in a film together.

[@martygibsonsr5150]

Kim Coates is amazing with everything he does.

[@bodawei425]

Kim Coates has such a presence, he is so charismatic in his role as the Mormon leader in American Primeval! I admit I did not know him as an actor, but his performance hit me in a big way.

[@chrisgreene2623]

He nailed the part.

[@mrboatshoe]

Just binged this and he was so convincing in playing brigham young. Excellent job🤙🤙

[@Calisthenics-vp2ot]

He looks like joaquin phoenix in the joker, haha

[@gingerm7800]

FANTASTIC casting!

[@silverash63]

When I was watching it I thought he was superb in it,he stood out a mile

[@LaserRanger15]

He did a great job as Young.

[@lpsbullion]

No he did a great job acting,Young was not the character portrayed in this movie. The directors and writers did not read any of youngs works or writings. Weak history but great series

[@aNsWeRkEy02]

thats why he looked so familiar..he was one soa

[@jeffsturtevant4616]

Amazing show! A must watch.

[@gayledaniel5901]

He was so good!!

[@jermeycoldworld1898]

Kim coats still has to audition?

[@joeporter4616]

Brigham Young without a Beard? How historically accurate did you say this was?

[@timmiestabrnak]

@joeporter4616 Young Brigham young didn’t have a beard. There’s pictures of him as an apostle.

[@joeporter4616]

@@timmiestabrnak Okay Timmie, check the date of the Mountain Meadow massacre, then check BY's beardf status. He had a friggen Beard then.

[@AarmOZ84]

There was a photo take of Brigham Young in 1856 when the Utah War started and he had no beard. This is historically accurate and I am glad they show him with longer hair and clean shaven.

[@beatrizmorais944]

Essa série era pra ser aclamada. A gente não vê uma história dessa todo dia.

[@Subo23]

Great job by Coates.

[@BoomTribeEntertainment]

Joseph smith didn’t find the plates in PA

[@lpsbullion]

Yeah that not the only thing they had wrong

[@ladylaynefairchild8146]

Absolutely love Kim Coates!

[@lpsbullion]

He did a great job acting, B Young was not the character portrayed in this movie. I have read so much of Youngs writing and it seems as if the directors and writers of thsi series did not read any of Youngs work. The actor played a great fictional character. I did love the series but historically in accurate.

[@Edwin6932]

Kim Coates did an amazing dramatization of Brigham Young.

[@dbadagna]

And his lines were taken from Brigham Young's actual sermons.

[@Edwin6932]

@ Wow that I did not know it. Thanks for the info

[@lpsbullion]

@@dbadagna No they were not, I have read way more than most on youngs writings. they did not portray young accurately at all. The actor did great the series was great but it was mostly fictional series

[@dbadagna]

@ I looked them up and found that much of the dialogue came straight from Young's published sermons (though some of the lines were chopped and taken out of context). You shouldn't claim that they don't when they do.

[@lpsbullion]

@ 5 -10 lines from hundreds of pages of what he wrote and said. Yeah not accurate at all but like I said great series. Dont pretend to be well read of Young if you just do a quick google search

[@user-kt9ir6bo8z]

Great show! Amazing performance by Kim. So glad they showed Brigham Young for the psychopath he was.

[@michaelcurry3518]

He is playing a fictional character with Brigham Young's name thrown on it. Couldn't even try to find someone that looked anything like the real Brigham Young, let alone portray him accurately. Major dramatization!!!

[@JCal-f1f]

I can’t take him seriously when he says something about finding plates in the hills of Pennsylvania… The rest of it was hyperbolic nonsense but hey, if he thinks it’s real, and thinks he did a great job… whatever I don’t care stupid is stupid😂

[@luvslogistics1725]

Man Kim’s good and then you team him up with Shea Whigham it’s insane

[@anitafowler524]

Kim coats oh yeah, great actor who else could play Brigham Young

[@samuelcoleman3658]

This entire series does not actually reflect what the lds church history. These people creating this tv series only knows a few drops about the lds church history. In other words, they have no idea what they are doing. This film does not reflect brigham young correctly.

[@lukeslc-xd8ds]

What would you expect from ignorant people who have no clue about history and who are also haters. He dicho

[@ruthcasement5844]

Amazing show weather true or false

[@bladehoner3185]

He was creepy as hell- good job!

[@dd-tc6ip]

This series a LIE, assassinaton order. Talk about that

[@dougbodenhamer9391]

Brilliant acting! Exactly the sleazy, nasty but likeable kind of Politician protrayal.

[@richardwestern9546]

As the producer says the first episode is 20% based on true events then the rest of the show is just made up but it is based on a true story so everybody listen its based on a true story. lol lol lol lol lol lol and I feel sorry for the cast of stars doing this junk its already a remake of something that was already done years ago. and done better and now there just patseys.

[@timmiestabrnak]

@richardwestern9546 It sounds like you’re just bitter that the brutal history of your church is being shown to the world. If anything, the show greatly downplayed, how truly cruel and abusive Brigham and the Mormons were, and still are.

[@richardwestern9546]

@@timmiestabrnak I have no problem with history being told as long as it is told truthfully but this Hollywood glam job blood and guts just for ratings and $$$$ is just sad. I am still learning about this and can say without a doubt people are evil and do evil things in the name of God even if god has nothing to do with there actions learned that first hand in saudie, but this film is really sad its an attack on the mormans when it could have been a education on the evil things that happened and a way to show people that we cannot repeat the past no matter what or were we choose to bow our heads.

[@lpsbullion]

@@timmiestabrnak The series was great the acting was great but in regards to Young and the mormons it was around 90% fiction in the series.

[@donnwilliams9996]

Martial Law was pronounced by Brigham Young in 1857 but mainly to allow the Nauvoo Legion to protect the Utah Territory from the Government troops commanded by Sidney Johnston coming to Utah across the plans and allow the Nauvoo Legion and Milita to attach and harrass the troops before they got to Salt Lake City. As far as the Fancher Group, they were somewhat peaceful However they picked up a group of men along the way that loved to drink and harass. This mouthy group got upset because the Mormons would not sell them some of the goods they had, mainly because everyone was getting ready for a possible war. The timing was really bad. To ad to this issue, they started mouthing off that they participated in the Killing of Joseph Smith, and that they were going to California to bring back another army. So this really got the local southern Saints worried. Then the local Piautes got upset with the party also due to them poisoning one of their watering holes. So the Mormons and Indians got together and stopped them at Mountain Meadows. Once they had a confrentation, the local leadership took upon themselves to battle with guns this group. After a couple of days, the sent word to Brigham Young and told them of the situation and asked him what to do, The rider/messenger than was told by Brigham Young to let them go on their way and stop harrassing them. The rider/messanger got back 24 hours to late as the Stake President of Parawon and Cedar had just made the descion to kill the men and women the day before. It was them and John D. Lee that organized the slaughter. NOT Brigham Young.

[@richardwestern9546]

its funny how the producer a former morman who knew this had chosen to flip the script for some $$$ well not funny but sad as it diminishes the history and the value of all the lives that were lost that day.

[@lpsbullion]

yea the series had great acting and cinema but historically 90% false. But hey it was a great series and people that dont know how to read will think its actual correct history.

[@heathen-heart]

Tig as a cult leader...yeah that fits.