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M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 3 | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 3 C O N T R I B U T O R S C A R Y W H I T E worked on his first feature film back in 1986; it was a Western called Red-Headed Stranger, with Willie Nelson. Since then, he's received three Emmy nominations for Westerns—Lonesome Dove, Buffalo Girls and the contemporary Western, Yellowstone. After getting a master's degree in film from the University of Texas, Cary began his career as a Production Designer for after-school specials in Los Angeles. His first was Schoolboy Father with a teenage Rob Lowe. Shortly thereafter, he moved back to Austin to do Red-Headed Stranger. Cary affectionately refers to Willie Nelson as "Uncle Will," and thanks Willie for getting him back to Texas and starting him on what has really become, to a large degree, his life's work—designing Westerns. Cary has worked in other genres, like fantasy (Spy Kids), horror (Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, The Faculty), musical biographies (Selena, The Temptations), post-apocalyptic (the Revolution series), high school coming-of-age dramas (Mean Girls, the Friday Night Lights series), and Civil War drama (Gettysburg). However, the genre he comes back to, time and time again, is the Western. His latest projects are the Yellowstone spinoffs, 1883 and 1923.