This story contains plot details from the sixth episode of1923on Paramount+.
Fortunately, the couple was saved by a passing craft helmed by the appropriately named Capt.
And are theyevergoing to get to Montana?
Julia Schlaepfer as AlexandraEmerson Miller/Paramount+
She promises its coming …. soon.
JULIA SCHLAEPFERMy parents loved Yellowstone and 1883.
When I got a callback,Taylor Sheridanflew me out to Jackson Hole to screen test.
I read with Taylor as Spencer for the role.
By the end of the audition, we were all crying in the audition room together.
He called me the next morning when I was at the airport and he said, youre Alexandra.
I met Brandon Sklenar on the first day of Cowboy Camp.
DEADLINE Oh, so you got to do Cowboy Camp!
SCHLAEPFERWe were very lucky.
Brandon and I got to do an extended Cowboy Camp because everyone was in Montana shooting.
We had a month or two before we had to fly out to Africa with the crew.
Then wed grab lunch and go for swim training [for the capsized tugboat scenes].
It was like summer camp, honestly.
DEADLINE You and Brandon had to jump into an intimate relationship pretty fast.
SCHLAEPFERBrandon and I were very lucky in the casting.
That chemistry you see on screen just exists between the two of us.
And there is such a deep level of trust, just like with the characters.
Spencer and Alex dont really know why they are so connected.
Brandon and I have that.
Taylor immediately put his trust in me and Brandon, really gave us the reins.
I think that gave us the confidence to dive in.
DEADLINE When were you told you had to have a British accent?
They had me audition with a British accent.
I studied accents at NYU, so I had a base level of an accent going on.
I was doing a modern British accent when I went in for my audition.
We honed it into this Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth-bang out of accent.
DEADLINE Where did you and Brandon shoot those beautifulFrom Here To Eternity-likebeach scenes?
We were on the most beautiful beach in Kenya.
It was the greatest two days of our lives.
DEADLINE Where did you shoot those tugboat scenes?
It was their winter time.
We all thought it was going to be warm because Malta sounds like Italy very warm.
What was the meaning behind that?
But she didnt what that meant and what it entailed.
She didnt know what the world was truly like.
As they continue their journey, there are going to be more moments like that.
Its going to continue to be difficult for them.
Shes kind of convincing herself that shes not going to be scared.
She chose this life no matter what.
Its going to be her and Spencer until the end.
What did you read into that?
SCHLAEPFERTaylor doesnt write anything that he doesnt mean!
When I first read that, I was likeuh-oh.
Im truly going on not knowing what is going to happen to her.We dont know what their fate is.
DEADLINE The moment in the episode when the captain gives you the ring around his neck is very touching.
SCHLAEPFERThat was such a special scene.
We got to keep those.
So Brandon and I both have our characters rings with us.
They gifted those to us at the end of filming.
SCHLAEPFERI know, everyone is so impatient online.
I want to get to Montana, too.
I want her to meet the whole family.
I cant tell you, but it will take some time.
Theyve got to cross the ocean and they have to cross the country.
DEADLINE Where were you when you found out there would be a second season?
SCHLAEPFERTaylor had dinner with us one night and what trying to tease out what happens to our characters.
Early on I think he realized that he wanted to write more for us.
They were whispering on set about a second season happening.
We are just so beyond thrilled and are pinching ourselves that we get to do this job.
DEADLINE Do you know how your character is related to Kevin Costners John Dutton?
SCHLAEPFEREveryone was speculating when we first got to Cowboy Camp.
There were many debates about the family line.
We would all poke fun at each other and give a shot to figure it out.
I was drawing out a family tree on the back of my script.
We dont fully know.
Taylor keeps all those things quite a secret until hes fully ready to show us the scripts.
But we have a very strong idea.
Thats all I can say!
