iOS app Android app More  Marshall Fine   Actor Sam Rockwell
Takes A Single Shot  Posted: 09/17/2013 8:28 am   He haunts the
mountains like a phantom, a veteran poacher with deer in his
sights and the law on his trail.   "I was a city kid," he says
in a telephone interview. "I did a little outdoors stuff in high
school with a group called Urban Pioneers. But I was mainly a
concrete guy. So yeah, that was just acting."  Not that he
didn't prepare for it -- or enjoy it: "There was a lot of moving
around in the woods, so I got into good shape because the role
was very physical," he says. "The workout regimen was intense.
There were a lot of twisted ankles in the crew in the forest. We
had to hike in an hour each way. The crew had to take all that
equipment into the woods."  Rockwell did his own share of
carrying. In the film, he plays a poacher named John Moon who
accidentally shoots a woman -- and finds a huge box of cash next
to her body. He takes the money, which puts him squarely in the
sights of the people