Time to go back to the ranch. Paramount+’s Yellowstone Prequel -Series 1923 Returns on February 23, after a two -year interruption. In a darker second season, the Dutton family saddles for an imminent war in the Montana countryside – their legacy and territory on the line.
Under the leadership of Jacob (Harrison Ford) and Cara Dutton (Helen Mirren), the western drama of maker Taylor Sheridan serves as a prequel of YellowstoneHe ended his five-season run in December 2024, and a continuation of 1883. Season 2 of 1923, which consists of eight episodes, Will not be an easy journey, because the Duttons – and those in their job – get new challenges and have the tendency to have an unfinished things against the background of a hard winter.
“It’s really about survival for everyone,” the actress Julia Schlaepfer, who plays Alex, told Yahoo Entertainment. “Taylor Sheridan wrote such a beautiful story for everyone, and I think people will really love it.”
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The strikes of the actors and writers in 2023 pushed season 2 production back one year to June 2024. The annual delay also forced a change in the film location – Van Butte, Mont., That was the most important hub for season 1, to Austin, Texas.
The extensive break was a disguised blessing “, 1923 Star Brandon Sklenar, who plays Jacob and Cara’s cousin Spencer, Yahoo said entertainment.
“I am a different person than two and a half years ago – two and a half years older and [having lived] Two and a half years of life, “the actor said, adding that the jobs he has adopted between seasons, including Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s It ends with uscolored performance in 1923. “You put everything on.”
“But that guy is so deep in my bones that it is now like a second nature,” said Sklenar about Spencer, who starts the new season during a tough trip home. “It was interesting to see how he now felt in me, versus me two years ago, because it is absolutely different in the best way.”
For his co-star Aminah Nieves, who portrays the indigenous teenager Teonna Rainwater, had a deeper meaning back on the set after the death of their co-star Cole brings a lot. The actor, who played Teonna’s friend Pete Pete Plenty Clouds, a sheep shepherd, in season 1, was found dead in Kansas in April 2024.
Nieves told Yahoo Entertainment that she wanted to honor Coco, Cole brings a lot this season, “and” to be back to the family. “
It took a whole season for the love story of Spencer and Alex to flourish 1923But towards the end of the first season, the couple literally broke up oceans. Their only us hope was the desperate promise they made to each other that they would somehow reunite at Yellowstone – no matter how long their respective Odysseys would last.
“He has never been sure why he is doing what he is doing – his beliefs, his mission and his goal,” said Sklenar about the motivation of Spencer for season 2. Adding urgency to his mission is the threat to the house of His family of those who circling around. It.
“He is dead to come home, and he comes there,” he said. “He doesn’t care what stands in his way or what he has to do. He will do what he has to do and sleep well at night, because he knows he is doing it for the ultimate reason, namely saving his family and building a life with his wife. “
Or that means it finally sharing a scene with Ford and Mirren, Sklenar played back. ‘If I worked with them, I am sure it would be [great]”He said laughing. “They are everything you want them to be and more. I don’t blow smoke there. There is a reason why they have the career they have and they lasted as long as they have had and continue to be loved by so many people and coming up with interesting versions. “
Do not be surprised if Spencer is in lesser situations in season 2. In the first episode he participates in the underground fighting to earn more money. “There is no greater reason to do something outside your own moral lines than the love of your family,” said Sklenar.
On the other side of the world, Alex starts the season that is destroyed in London after being separated from Spencer. Only when she discovers a life-changing development that the course of her (and Spencer) life changes that she decides to start a solo trip to America.
The “seasickness” Alex passed the ship last season, led fans to speculate whether she was pregnant. “It would add more fuel to its fire,” Sklenar said about the possibility. Schlaepfer added that it would “completely increase the bet for her journey – it’s not just about her anymore.”
“Everything that feeds her from this point is her love for Spencer and her dedication she made to the two together,” said Schlaepfer, promised that her character is rather ripe. ‘She was naive for the world [in Season 1] And she has always been strong, spicy and fiery, but she always had Spencer to take care of her. This season she is a woman who only goes through the world and she is very determined. “
It was vital for Schlaepfer that Alex is experiencing hardships this time. “She’s not a lady in need – and I never wanted her to be one,” said the actress. “It’s a much more tumultuous, brutal journey for her.”
Should Alex reunite with Spencer in due course, Sklenar said: “It would probably be a beautiful scene.” Schlaepfer agreed and said that she would like the moment – if it happens eventually – is ‘peaceful’ and ‘romantic’.
“I want them to rather rather rather,” admitted the actress, and acknowledged that fans were “of region” apart about their long -term time. “I’m with you there.”
Their characters can eventually cross paths with a powerful new character. Jennifer Carpenter, best known for her role as Debra Rightour deputy Marshal Mamie Fossett plays in 1923. By researching the real person, Carpenter told Yahoo Entertainment that she found ‘maybe 10 sentences on her’.
“She is someone who monitors the scales of justice, but she is private, and she is tied to something that still holds her when it is chaotic around her,” said Carpenter, comparing her character with a snail in a gun , always ready to stand her ground. “She actually cuts the job of all the planets of all other characters.”
A fan of the first season, described carpenter 1923 As a panacea – “a missing piece” in her creative life. She said that the series “had a simplistic, delicate way to tell a story” that a mirror held for her.
“It turned your process into how you want to play your ticket to this life,” she said.
1923 Season 2 returns 23 February on Paramount+.
