Julie Miller

“It felt so random, but of course if you get a call saying, ‘Kevin Costner wants to talk to you’—I didn’t want to question it too much,” she tells me on Zoom. (In a statement to VF, Costner explains why he cast Miller: “She has obvious natural beauty, but she has a nuance in her roles that I admired and appreciated. She passed the ultimate test for me because she is believable.”) In the Civil War–era epic, which opens in theaters Friday, Miller plays a young mother who, after uprooting her famil…