‘1923’ Premiere: A Violent Beginning For The Dutton Men And Indigenous Women
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the first episode of 1923, which dropped at midnight on Paramount+. 1883 star Isabel May is back as Elsa Dutton — but in voice-over form only — in 1923, Taylor Sheridan’s newest Yellowstone prequel that provides more of a backstory on how the Duttons came to amass so much power (and land) in Montana.
In the first installment of the eight-episode season, we learn that Harrison Ford plays Jacob Dutton, the brother of Tim McGraw’s James Dutton who was first introduced in 1883.
Elsa explains that Jacob came to Montana in 1894 to help raise his brother’s two sons — Spencer (Brandon Sklenar), an ex-WWI soldier plagued with PTSD and the urge to never leave Kenya, and John Sr. (James Badge Dale), a bonafide cowboy who stayed behind to help his father run the ranch. (Elsa died at the end of 1883.
Boo!) John Sr. and his wife Emma (Marley Shelton) are also the parents of Jack Dutton (Darren Mann), a ball of fire who needs to learn a thing or two about managing his fiancée’s expectations when it comes to owning cattle.
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