‘1923’: How Darren Mann Originally Read For Spencer Dutton But Ended Up As Nephew Jack

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Once upon a time, Taylor Sheridan had a different role in mind for Darren Mann in the Yellowstone-verse. Before he ever made it to cowboy camp to prepare for the role ofJack Dutton, Mann was actually considered for the role of the swashbuckling Spencer, played by Brandon Sklenar. “All my auditions were for Spencer,” recalls Mann to Deadline. “I never read for Jack.

I did something like four self-tapes, I believe, and then eventually I got a phone call saying, ‘okay, you’ve got five new scenes and you’ve got to go to Wyoming in 30 hours or something like that and you’re going to screen test for Spencer.” “I went there, had the screen test, it went great.

I was feeling pretty good about it but I wasn’t sure,” Mann continues. “And then I got a call maybe 30, 45 minutes later saying, ‘we want to offer you the role of Jack’.

I was like, yeah, let’s go.” It was a welcome development for Dunn, since he realized he saw more of himself in Jack while preparing for the Spencer auditions. “I was focused on the task at hand to just do my best and to show what would my flavor of the Spencer character would be if I did it.