The Madison has put in a lot of work to make their cast look very different on Taylor Sheridan‘s new Paramount+ show than they do in real life.
According to the official synopsis, The Madison follows the Clyburn family from New York City, who “relocate to the Madison River valley of southwest Montana for emotional recovery following a tragedy that shattered the family.”
In addition to Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell the upcoming series stars Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Amiah Miller, Ben Schnetzer and Kevin Zegers. Rebecca Spence, Alaina Pollack and Danielle Vasinova make up the rest of the cast.
Russell recently praised his time on the show in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, hinting the series was already renewed and filmed a second season.
“I really like what The Madison is. It’s a smart show,” he said in January while referring to Sheridan as a “really good” writer. “Taylor’s excellent, and Michelle is great, and she’s really great in this show. Talking about awards — I think they’re going to be looking Michelle’s way. They’re all really good, but it is [Sheridan’s] writing that is so compelling.”
Russell continued: “I think that it’s a very different show for Taylor in that it’s a very female-gaze-oriented show. And I think it’s extremely well written, it was fun to play. It was really fun to do. I just had a good time.”
The actor credited his busy schedule as the reason The Madison filmed two seasons at once.
“I did the second season of Monarch [Legacy of Monsters], the Apple TV show, and unfortunately for me, the timing was when Madison came around,” Russell explained. “And I said, ‘There’s just no way to do it,’ because I was working on this show.”
Sheridan and Pfeiffer, who both serve as executive producers on the series, came up with a way to delay shooting Russell’s season 1 scenes.
“Michelle Pfeiffer and Taylor were able to get together with the people at Paramount+ and said, ‘Well, let’s do two seasons instead of just one,’” Russell recalled. “‘And then before we start the second season next year, instead of doing that, we will start with Kurt’s stuff. We really do want him to play the guy. And we’ll get his first season out of the way first, and jam all that in there, and then go into the second season and do that.’ And so we were able to do that.”
Keep scrolling to see what the stars of The Madison look like in real life: