1923's Brandon Sklenar purposely avoided watching co-star Harrison Ford’s Shrinking
The actor explains why he wanted to keep the legendary Star Wars actor strictly in Dutton mode.
1923’s Brandon Sklenar, who stars in the Yellowstone prequel series as the continent-hopping Spencer Dutton, has revealed that he has deliberately refused to watch Harrison Ford’s recent performance in the Apple TV Plus series Shrinking because he wanted to preserve his image of Ford as Jacob Dutton.
Speaking to RadioTimes.com ahead of the release of the second season of 1923, Sklenar explained the ways in which he tried to stay immersed in his 1923 character, even when it came to separating his fellow members of the series’ star-studded cast from their other roles.
"I haven’t even seen Shrinking because Harrison Ford needs to be Jacob [Dutton] for me," he said. "I try to stay in my story."
Ford, who plays the ragged patriarch of the Dutton family in 1923, has been balancing multiple roles recently, including his critically acclaimed performance in the Apple TV+ comedy series Shrinking, and his role as President Thunderbolt Ross in the newest addition to the MCU, Captain America: Brave New World.
Beyond Ford’s recent work is, of course, his immense back catalogue of iconic roles such as Star Wars’s Han Solo and the titular adventuring archaeologist in the Indiana Jones films.
Clearly, Sklenar was trying to put those performances out of his mind when working with Ford in the second season, which sees Spencer attempting to reach the rest of his family, led by Ford’s Jacob Dutton and Helen Mirren’s Cara Dutton, at their ranch in Montana.
The upcoming second season will conclude the 1923 story, and therefore mark the end of Ford’s Yellowstone journey.
Whether or not his character makes it through to the end of the finale dead or alive is another question, and Yellowstone mastermind Taylor Sheridan has plenty of form when it comes to staging big deaths in his Yellowstone finales so far.
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The odds look slightly better for Skelenar’s Spencer, who could, in theory, still yet feature in one of the many planned further spin-off stories being worked on by Sheridan.
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1923 season 2 will launch on Sunday 23rd February 2025 on Paramount Plus. Get a seven day free Paramount Plus trial at Amazon Prime Video.
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