1923 TV Series Overview
1923 focused on The Duttons who faced a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. The next installment of the Yellowstone origin story introduces a new generation of the Dutton family and explores the early twentieth 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. In addition, while America's Great Depression began in 1929, it got an early start in Montana. The Great Depression began in Montana in 1918, almost 10 years before the rest of the nation. While the rest of America was thriving, Montana was struggling. Between drought and the reduced demand for agricultural products, due to the end of the First World War, from 1914 to 1918, many farmers suffered greatly. As a result, Montana farmers would default on wartime loans which lead to widespread bank failure throughout the state.
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Harrison Ford And Helen Mirren
Harrison Ford was one of the most prolific actors in Hollywood who came to prominence for his role in the Star Wars trilogy and Indiana Jones. He has received a number of awards and accolades for his performance, including the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and three Saturn Awards. He also bagged in four Golden Globe Awards nominations and has been nominated for the Academy Award. Although he started very late, he fashioned a career by taking every chance and challenging every role that came his way. Popular stats show that he played four of the top six box-office hits of all time.
Besides Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren was a famous English actress. She started her acting career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company and went on to become one of the most celebrated actresses on stage, film and television. She won the Academy Award for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the film The Queen, multiple Emmy Awards for the TV series Prime Suspect and Elizabeth I, and has received the Tony Award for again portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the play The Audience. Some of her notable movies include Age of Consent, Caligula, Excalibur, Cal, The Madness of King George, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Gosford Park, Calendar Girls, Hitchcock, Woman in Gold, Red, and Collateral Beauty.
Last Work As Couple
Both Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren noted that their past working together on the 1986 film, The Mosquito Coast, where they also played husband and wife, made the transition to 1923 quite seamless when they stepped onto the Montana set. Helen Mirren recalled that she was quite well known in England, but not known in America at all. Harrison Ford was always very gracious, but it was very an unequal sort of thing and they loved working together. And then they went off to their own ways. But the minute she got back with him, it was as if those years had just come together. Harrison Ford agreed, saying he felt the ease of playing Helen Mirren's onscreen husband decades later. He shared that while Jacob was the patriarch of the Yellowstone ranch, it's really Cara who was the real boss
Their Real-Life Marriage
According to ET, the stars of the Yellowstone prequel talk about how their real-life marriages helped their portrayal of Jacob and Cara Dutton. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren play husband and wife in Paramount+'s anticipated Yellowstone prequel, 1923, and the legendary actors credited their onscreen portrayal of a long-standing marriage to their own real-life partnerships with their significant others. In the latest series to join the Yellowstone universe, Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren portray Jacob and Cara Dutton, John Dutton's great uncle and aunt. Helen Mirren has been married to director Taylor Hackford since 1997, while Ford has been married to actress Calista Flockhart since 2010..
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Their Marriage Impact
Harrison Ford echoed Helen Mirren's sentiments, saying that his marriage to Calista Flockhart has informed the nuances of Jacob and Cara's union in the show. Harrison Ford explained that he suppose it helps, but he found working with Helen Mirren to be extraordinarily easy, simple, and straightforward. There’s no fussiness about her. She was a practical, down-to-earth, smart person, and knows her craft. Their scenes have been nothing but a pleasure. Harrison Ford also credited Cara for supplying a great deal of Jacob's strength, acknowledging that Jacob would not be where he was without the support and strength of his wife by his side.
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