As Paramount Plus’ most-watched premiere in 2022, Taylor Sheridan’s has certainly lived up to its expectations. Following the Season 1 cliffhanger, we are all to know if Spencer Dutton makes it bake to Bozeman to stop sheep herder Banner Creighton and mining magnate Donald Whitfield from taking the Yellowstone. ? Keep reading to find out.
is the the second spin-off series streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus. Set a century before and 40 years after , the show follows the next two generations of Duttons as they face new struggles in the cloud of Montana’s great depression, from lawlessness and prohibition to cattle theft. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren costar as the husband-and-wife power duo, Jake and Cara Dutton.
In an interview with in November 2022, Ford and Mirren spoke about their character’s strong relationship, which is tested and depended on in the many tumultuous battles they face, from getting shot at to protecting their land from greedy men. “You need someone who is capable of making decisions, and hopefully making the right decisions, but at least making a decision and going with it—in other words, a leader,” Mirren said. “That’s what has propelled them into this position of running the ranch, running the family, being the linchpin around whom, at this moment in time, the family revolves.”
Ford added: “Their lives are totally wrapped up in each other…There’s very little that sustains them other than themselves and the hard work and investment they put into their future and their family,” he explained. “It is a tough life, and it’s full of not just physical challenges but moral ones as well.”
When does return for Season 2? reported in June 2023 that filming for the second season of 1923 is “delayed indefinitely” due to the . Filming was scheduled to resume on Monday, June 5, 2023, in Montana but production has been halted. The news comes from a report from , where Butte Civic Center manager Bill Melvin said he was contacted by the production of the Paramount+ series that filming had been postponed, according to our sister site.
With the writer’s strike in mind, the release date for Season 2 will likely be sometime in 2024 or even later. Originally, reported in January 2023 that shooting for the second will begin this spring, but as of April 2023, filming has begun for the series. (The show’s Costume Designer Janie Bryant told the press at the Paley Center 1923 exhibit on April 29, 2023, that she hasn’t gotten the script for Season 2 yet.)
Ford and Mirren, as well as a majority of the cast (who were not killed off in Season 1), are expected to return for the second installment. Helen Mirren confirmed her plans to return for Season 2, calling the confirmation “very happy news as far as I was concerned,” she told in February 2023. “Doing this sort of work is a journey into the unknown,” she added. “I’m fascinated to see where Cara is going to go. Taylor did say she is very much of her era, she’s looking after the house. That is what her job is. But then he said, ‘Wait, things are going to happen.’ So we’ll see.”
We also spoke with Julia Schlaepfer, who plays Spencer Dutton (Brandon Sklenar)’s love interest, Alexandra. The 28-year-old actress said that she can’t wait to start working on Season 2 and spoke about the cast and crew’s tight-knit relationship. “We’re so excited,” she told us exclusively at the 1923 Paley Center exhibit. “We hope that we get to come back in full force. We’re all so close in the cast and crew, so getting to work with these people again is such a dream and I feel so lucky.”
