At a FYC event for the 1923 series on May 4th in Los Angeles, Harrison Ford, who plays patriarch Jacob Dutton opposite Helen Mirren‘s Cara, told The Hollywood Reporter that he would be open to continuing in the Yellowstone universe.
Ford told The Hollywood Reporter he thought the way the show ended with the season two finale “was fantastic — I thought it was very tight storytelling and I was absolutely delighted with it. It’s probably the densest script and work that I’ve had a chance to work on in a long, long time.”
Mirren joked she was “convinced that I was going to die so I was quite surprised I was still alive at the end of the show”; indeed the second season ended with both Mirren and Ford’s characters surviving, while Alex (played by Julia Schlaepfer) finally makes it to Montana and gives birth to her and Spencer Dutton’s (Brandon Sklenar) baby John just before she herself dies. That baby seems to be the direct family link to John Dutton III, played by Kevin Costner in Yellowstone, though the cast has stopped short from confirming that without creator Taylor Sheridan‘s blessing.
“I love the fact that the future of Yellowstone is left in this tiny baby, in the arms of two older people, grandparents age. I thought that was a very interesting concept,” Mirren continued, referring to her final scene cradling baby John. “And [creator] Taylor [Sheridan] now I think is going to do 1944 as I understand, so that will be interesting too, the next generation.”
1944 is the next chronological prequel in the Yellowstone-verse, though Paramount hasn’t officially said if 1923 is indeed ending with the season two finale. The time jump means a 20-year-old John Dutton II could be the focus of 1944, and Sklenar has expressed interest in returning to play Spencer, now a father and running the family ranch, in that prequel show. Ford and Mirren’s characters, who would be nearing 100 years old in 1944, say they would be open to returning in flashbacks or some other capacity in the Yellowstone universe. “I’m still alive,” Ford joked of Jacob Dutton, and said he would be interested in coming back if Sheridan “asks nice.” But, he added, “I have no idea what his plans are.”
Read the interview in full here.
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