Helen Mirren ‘Fully Expected’ This 1923 Plot Twist That Never Happened
Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel has received lots of backlash after its second season’s finale, but could have made things even worse if Helen Mirren’s own predictions had become true. Here’s why the actress thinks she was lucky to not see this happening.
Yellowstone’s prequel show 1923 was quite a disaster when it finally made it to its second season’s finale, and good thing Helen Mirren’s Cara Dutton wasn’t a part of it.
Having become Paramount+’s most watched series of all time, 1923’s second and final instalment kicked it off to the audiences’ praise, but quickly went down the drain with a bloodbath that took a bunch of fan-favourite characters away.
Since Taylor Sheridan isn’t quite new to killing off his shows’ leading characters (RIP John Dutton III), things like these were expected to happen in 1923 too, at least according to the show’s leading actress Helen Mirren.
Still, her character somehow dodged the bullet, and for Mirren it was probably the most shocking plot twist.
Helen Mirren Says She Was Sure Cara Dutton Would Die in 1923 Season 2
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The actress, who portrays the Dutton family’s matriarch Cara in the series’ both seasons, previously stated that she’d landed the role without having any idea about what was going to happen to her character, but still had come up with guesses.
“Harrison and I signed up for [1923] without having any idea of what the story was going to be, where it was going to go. I fully expected to be killed off. I did. I fully expected [it]. I thought, 'Okay, obviously I'll die in the second [season]”, Mirren said in an interview with Gold Derby.
She then added that wasn’t sure whether Cara would even make it to the finale of the second season, expecting that she would get killed sometime in the middle of the instalment.
“But I did expect to probably kick the bucket in the second-to-last episode or something. But no! There I am at the very end — that was great. That was a surprise. I’m sure it took a lot of people by surprise. It's not what you expect — and that's what Taylor's very good at”, the actress revealed.
1923 Fans Labeled Season 2 Ending as ‘One of the Most Stupid Series Finales’
Even though 1923’s power couple of Jacob and Cara made it safely to the very end of the season and the show as a whole, the series still played way too hard with all those deaths that 1923’s fans called absolutely pointless.
“Pisses me off beyond belief that we got two seasons worth of Spencer and Alex’s journey for it to end with Alex dying because she has 0 survival instinct and Spencer shooting a guy in the head”, Redditor brandinowambino shared in a series-related thread.
“And Taylor Sheridan literally tortured Alex to death... there is no overachieved plot goal of killing her off. They could’ve easily let her live... it’s dumb…”, ButtPlugForPM added to the discussion.
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“Then Alex dies of ridiculously aggressive "frostbite", which seems to be turning into hyper-gangrene. (As a northerner, with more than a few acquaintances who have passed out in snowdrifts, and eventually lost pieces, it sure doesn't happen like that.)”, Ok_Rain_8679 made another reasonable addition.
