'Prey' Star Had The Most Normal Job Before Landing Killer Role In Movie

The latest Predator movie, Prey, has been out for over a week now, and it’s safe to say that it’s been a massive hit with fans and critics alike. With an impressive 92% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s the best reviewed movie in the franchise by quite a margin. 

While much of the praise has gone towards lead actress Amber Midthunder, aka Naru, there’s definitely something to be said about the performance of Dakota Beavers (Taabe). His role in Prey was his acting debut, and as revealed in an interview with GQ, he was living quite a different life prior to starring in the movie. 

Take a look at the trailer for Prey below.

“I went from having, like, 500 followers, to 13,000 in a couple days. The movie’s only been out a couple days. So, it's just like mountains of surprises for me,” he said, speaking about the success of the film. “And then I hear it's the biggest premiere on Hulu and I’m like ‘dang man. What’s next?’ And then I'm talking to GQ. I worked at TJ Maxx not that long ago!”

As well as his job at TJ Maxx (TK Maxx in the UK), he also performed in bars with his family in their country band, Sheridan Hill. “Having so many years of playing shows, little bars and little dives all over the place, coming into acting, it was a different world. But I told myself - even in the first in-person audition - this is just another show,” he continued. “For a lot of years, I played long gigs, four-hour gigs, and in Nashville sometimes it'll be 90 degrees and a hundred percent humidity. So, you're just sweating buckets, and you have to be on for hours straight flexing your inside muscles to sing. […] Compared to sweating my brains out in Nashville playing at some outside bar somewhere, this is not so bad.”

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