New York, May 23, 2007 – While at the premiere of HBO’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee on Thursday, it struck us that all four stars - Adam Beach, Aidan Quinn, Anna Paquin and August Schellenberg - have names beginning with the letter “A”. Alliteration or coincidence?

A Native American who lived on a reservation in Canada as a child, Beach said that watching the movie about the displacement of American Indians in the Dakotas was painful, but he’s glad he did it. “This has been one of the best experiences because of the connection with the Lakota nations – a lot of people don’t realize, but that’s the heartbeat of America”, Beach told us. “You know, there’s a story that if you go up and take a picture of the world and you look at the Black Hills, it’s in the shape of a heart. And we as Native people believe that; the Lakota nation. And to this day, they teach other tribes that have lost their culture and traditions, and they teach them how to get it back.”

For Paquin, the story wasn’t the most painful thing about watching the film. “The parts I’m in I find hard to watch because I don’t like watching myself, but the rest of the film is just beautiful”, she said at the premiere at the Museum of Natural History. Paquin was sporting brand new blonde locks, thanks to a role in a new HBO series called True Blood.