The Reservation Dogs star is a standout in the new Apple TV+ series.
Dallas Goldtooth is always good for a few laughs. Well, OK, almost always.
In the acclaimed FX dramedy Reservation Dogs, he was habitually hilarious as William Knifeman, the advice-dispensing ghost of a Native American warrior who — whoops! — perished on his way to the Battle of Little Big Horn. He provided welcome moments of comic relief as a high school sports commentator in the well-received Netflix film Rez Ball, and a pre-apocalypse buddy of Walton Goggins’ Cooper Howard — a.k.a. The Ghoul — in HBO’s dystopian drama Fallout.
And he demonstrated a flair for romantic comedy during his Season 2 story arc as a fleetingly employed museum curator in the lamentably short-lived Peacock sitcom Rutherford Falls.
Funny business just seems to come naturally for Goldtooth, a member of the Mdewakanton Dakota and Diné (Navajo) nations who’s a founding member (along with Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo) of the Native American comedy troupe The 1491s.
But in The Last Frontier, the new Apple TV+ limited run series premiering this weekend, Goldtooth is mostly serious, and totally convincing, as Hutch, second-in-command to Fairbanks, Alaska-based U.S. Marshal Frank Remnick (Jason Clarke). The long-time friends really don’t have much time for cracking wise as they lead a manhunt for escaped convicts who survived the crash of a prison transport plane near their community. And they are not at all amused by the interference of a visiting CIA agent (Haley Bennett) who obviously knows more than she’s willing to share about one of the escapees.
We caught up with Dallas Goldtooth on Zoom while he was on location for an upcoming project. And we were glad to see he still has his sense of humor.
