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Long before the Yellowstone ranch ran in Taylor Sheridan’s new “Yellowstone” spinoff series “1923,” Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren first played a married couple in the 1986 Peter Weir film “The Mosquito Coast.”
“When we first worked together, he was a big movie star and I was like nobody,” Mirren said. Different with laughter at the red carpet premiere of “1923” on Friday night. “So I was very scared.”
By 1986, Ford had already portrayed Han Solo in the original “Star Wars” trilogy and starred in two “Indiana Jones” features.
She continued, “I learned a lot from him because I haven’t done much yet. I had done a lot of theater at that point, [but] I haven’t done many films. So I watched him and he taught me a great deal about film acting that, to this day, I still use.”
“I admired her work and her personality back then, and I hold the same level of admiration for her,” Ford said of Mirren. “He’s a lovely person, so it’s both a professional pleasure and also a personal pleasure to work with him again.”
In the prequel series “Yellowstone”, the actors played Jacob and Cara Dutton, a couple who manage a family farm in 1920’s Montana while facing hardships during Western Expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression.
“We will see people we didn’t know came into the universe and we will meet some characters who are now members of the current ‘Yellowstone’ family,” said Sebastian Roché. “In ‘1883,’ you see the genesis of the Dutton family. This is the safety of the family.”
For Darren Mann, who plays Jacob’s great-nephew Jack Dutton, working with Ford and Mirren “was like living my dream come true.”
“One thing about her is that she puts you at ease right away. That’s one of her incredible qualities,” recalled Marley Shelton about the first day of filming with Mirren. “Even though Dame Helen Mirren — an Academy Award winner — is terrifying to work with — she’s so beautiful and makes you feel amazing and supported.”
To achieve Ford’s bonafide Western cowboy style, costume designer Janie Bryant tried about 75 hats on the “Indiana Jones” star. “It’s all about his hat,” he said.
“We did a lot for him. All different colors — trying different creases, different lips, different crown heights. It was definitely a process,” Bryant continued. “Taylor was also very specific about the type of hat she wanted as well. There was a lot of collaboration with Taylor, with Harrison and myself to create what I call ‘Jacob.'”
“1923” premieres on Paramount+ December 19.
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