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Taylor Sheridan’s growing Dutton universe is expanding even more complex with the addition of his latest Yellowstone prequel, 1923, and the series is exploring the complexity of the lives of the Duttons of days past. One of the characters who quickly stole our hearts is Brandon Sklenar’s Spencer Dutton, and he’s sharing a beautiful sentiment on family ties and how we honor them without even knowing it.
Speaking to Den of Geek, Sklenar says there’s a deeply interwoven storyline between Spencer and Elsa, even though the siblings never met. There are so many traits that Elsa brought to 1883, in a fearless and vulnerable storyline, that Spencer brings to audiences in 1923. It’s a beautiful connection — it’s otherworldly.
“It’s just such a gift to put this puzzle together and see where you can layer in Elsa, because there’s so much of her in Spencer, and yet they never met each other. But he has that same quest for danger. He’s also so unintentionally poetic. He’s such a simple guy. Taylor’s writing is so beautiful in that respect, and he has no awareness of how poetic and romantic he is. It’s just fundamentally who he is. So there’s something so endearing about that quality.”
While one might not initially think of the word romantic when they imagine the complex storyline of the Dutton family, it’s the most central and authentic way to describe what’s unfolding in front of us. It’s a love letter in every sense of the word: beautiful, broken, fractured, healed — it’s every stage of love and all of its romantic notions.