The cast of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone spinoff series, 1923, is expanding with the addition of several stars joining the roster. Claiming another limb on the Dutton family tree will be James Badge Dale (The Empty Man, Spectral, The Pacific), Marley Shelton (Grindhouse, The Sandlot), and Darren Mann (Giant Little Ones, Hello Destroyer). Michelle Randolph (The Resort, House of the Witch), Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker, Big Sky), Aminah Nieves (Blueberry, Dogwood), and Julia Schlaepfer (The Politician, The Sky is Everywhere) are also joining the cast.
Stepping into the spotlight for 1923 are Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, who play Jacob and Cara Dutton, respectively. Sebastian Roché (Heatwave, The Vampire Diaries) will also star. Going down the list of players and ranch hands, we find Dale playing John Dutton Sr., the oldest nephew and right-hand man of Jacob Dutton (Ford). Mann slips into the boots of Jack Dutton, John Dutton Sr.’s son and great-nephew to Jacob Dutton. Shelton stars as Emma Dutton, the wife of John Dutton Sr. and mother of Jack Dutton. Randolph plays Elizabeth Strafford, a spitfire of a woman hellbent on marrying into the Dutton tribe. Geraghty saddles up as Zane, a dedicated ranch foreman. Nieves stars as Teonna Rainwater, a young woman stationed at a government residential boarding school. Meanwhile, Schlaepfer plays Alexandra, A British woman who comes across one of the Duttons while traveling abroad.
1932 will introduce “a new generation of the Dutton family and explore the early 20th century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.”
The first Yellowstone prequel series, 1883, starred Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Isabel May and followed “the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land – Montana.” Taylor Sheridan confirmed earlier this year that 1883 wouldn’t receive a second season. “I created this peek through time to show you this one specific journey,” Sheridan said. “I’m not someone who likes to tie everything up in a bow and explain how everyone lived happily ever after or didn’t. On to the next peek through the window.”
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