Sarah Randall Hunt Talks ‘1923’ Season 2 and Working With ‘Gem of a Human’ Jerome Flynn (EXCLUSIVE)
The actress also shared what characters from ‘Yellowstone’ she would like to see appear in ‘1923’
When it comes to the Dutton family, they are known to have a very long list of enemies, and in 1923, that comes in the form of Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), a Scottish immigrant and sheep farmer who is determined to take the Montana-based ranch family down. And who better to help him than his loving wife, Ellie (Sarah Randall Hunt)? Woman’s World recently sat down with Hunt to discuss what she really thinks about the feud and what’s in store for the Creighton family going forward. Read on for more.
Sarah Randall Hunt spills on ‘1923’ Season 2
In Season 1 of 1923, Ellie’s husband Banner made headlines after he shot and killed John Dutton Sr. (James Badge Dale) for being a cow farmer. He also famously lost all of his sheep due to an illness, which cost him his family’s income.
“When I was preparing for this, I was looking at the wars between the cow people and the sheep people,” Hunt told Woman’s World. “But in regards to the Creightons and their journey, I think they always think they are acting in their best interest.”
Speaking of interest, fans of the show might remember that Banner teamed up with his evil boss, Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton), to try to destroy the Duttons. This plotline, Hunt claims, is going to get even wilder in Season 2.
“There’s a lot of stuff I can’t tell you about the journey that we go on, but we get to know Banner, Ellie and their son Henry a bit more throughout this journey as they deal with the trials and tribulations of being a family trying to just make it in Montana in 1923,” the actress explained. “I want people to put themselves in our characters’ situation and think about what they would have done. That’s all I’ll say.”
How Sarah Randall Hunt prepared for her ‘1923’ role
Since 1923 is set in the past, there’s a lot of work that goes into preparing for a scene. For Hunt, this came in the form of reading a lot of history books, both on Montana and Scotland.
“I love doing period pieces because I get to dive into the history of the time and do exhaustive research,” the actress shared. “I do a lot of preparation when I have an accent to do because I need to understand where my character came from in Scotland, and that informs how I move, talk, and look at the world.”
“I also read this book about female homesteaders in Montana that I found really interesting.”
Another thing the actress did was binge-watch both Yellowstone and 1883, just like the rest of us.
“During every single episode of 1883, I sobbed like a baby,” she revealed. “Then I was so inspired by that that I went back and continued watching more of the Yellowstone episodes. And then I started crying all over again, because there are these Easter eggs that Taylor [Sheridan, the creator] had planted in 1883 that showed up in Yellowstone, and it was just tears all over the place.”
Also, like us all, Hunt is ever-hopeful for a crossover between the shows, even if that means having characters time travel or come back from the dead.
“I would love to have Beth Dutton [Kelly Reilly] have some kind of interaction with Cara [Helen Mirren]. I would just love to see the two of them talk,” she said. “I’d love to see James Dutton [Tim McGraw] and Spencer [Brandon Sklenar] talk. Brendan has done such a good job in playing his character, and I would like to, at the end of 1923, have Brendan be able to talk to his TV dad.”
Working with Jerome Flynn: What Sarah Randall Hunt says
Even without the cameos, though, Hunt still loves her job and her onscreen husband, calling Flynn “a gem of a human being.”
“It was just such an honor getting to work with him in our scenes together. He’s really the most thoughtful, tender-hearted, human.”
Be sure to watch Sarah Randall Hunt as Ellie Creighton in Season 2 of 1923 every Sunday at 12 a.m. EST on Paramount+.
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