In the Hallmark rodeo series “Ride,” Nancy Travis plays matriarch to a Colorado ranching family. Did she have much knowledge about rodeos before landing the role? “It was a world I was fascinated by, but I had no experience with it. I was sort of Instagramming ranches and ranch life and thinking, wouldn’t it be fun to do something like that? I probably sent some listings from Zillow to my husband, which he promptly deleted. But I think I did sort of manifest this role.”
The show was filmed on a 4,000-acre working cattle ranch in Calgary. So now that Travis knows a little more about this life, would she ever pursue it? “Oh my god, no! I can barely walk my dog. The beautiful thing about what I do for a living is that I get to live these lives but not be hampered with the realities of the bills and the hardships.”
Travis’ career breakthrough came with the iconic film “Three Men and a Baby” and her roles since have included everything from “So I Married an Axe Murderer” to the sitcoms “Becker,” “Last Man Standing” and the Netflix series “The Kominsky Method.”
