Once it was offered, it occurred to me that this role could help me do something positive in the native community.” “I decided that I would take the role if offered. They assured me that this time they were going to make Tonto an equal character to the Lone Ranger. I told them that in this day and age, if you portray Tonto with disrespect, there will be more Indians on your lawn than Custer saw. “She kept asking me and told me I was exactly what they were looking for. The character of Tonto in the original Lone Ranger was derogatory to Native people. “Even though I knew Jay Silverheels, and had great respect for him as an activist in the Indian community and as an actor (a lot of people didn’t know what a good actor Jay really was, such as his role in Key Largo) I had reservations about playing this role. I was renting my studio from an agent who has asked me if I as interested in playing Tonto in the remake of The Legend of the Lone Ranger. “I never really wanted to be in the movie business. In an excerpt taken from his Web site, he describes his initial reluctance to be cast as Tonto. “I never wanted to be in the movie business,” he said. The Legend of the Lone Ranger gave Horse the exposure he needed to break into acting, but more importantly, it gave him recognition as an artist. “It got my foot in the door of this business and gave me an opportunity,” he said. Without being typecast, Horse found himself in an enviable position after the film’s release. I was afraid I’d be stuck with that image,” Horse said.
“I’m glad the movie wasn’t a big success.
Horse starred as Tonto in the 1981 Legend, earning marks as one of the few bright spots in the epic flop. It has been widely held as a disaster, replacing The Legend of the Lone Ranger as the least-favorite film version of the masked man among Lone Ranger aficionados. The television special, which aired in 2003, starred Chad Michael Murray as the Lone Ranger and Nathaniel Arcand as Tonto. “I was afraid I’d always be known for being in the bad Lone Ranger,” he joked in a telephone interview in July. He knew he didn’t want to be in it and he knew his tenure of being a star in the worst adaptation of the Lone Ranger was about to be over. When Michael Horse read the script for The WB network’s version of The Lone Ranger, he knew two things for certain.
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