Back when Taylor Sheridan originally established the Dutton family through Yellowstone,
little did he know that he was soon going to spawn two more stunning sequels that would
surpass even the success of the original Western masterpiece. To say the least, out of the two prequels that
followed, 1883 is still widely regarded as the best spin-off of the original series by fans.
However, as exceptional as this drama was to witness, the spin-off prequel from 2021 wasn’t the easiest to bring to life. If anything, it was made through an incredibly gruelling process tiring enough to wear the entire cast and crew out. In fact, it even led to Faith Hill, one of the most prominent actors in the series, screaming the choicest line of profanities in public out of exasperation!
Yellowstone Prequel 1883 Had Everything Against it
The grimly grinding process that the cast and crew had to go through just to shoot Taylor Sheridan‘s 1883 was nothing short of sheerly exhausting. While the show itself depicts a rather pitiless perspective of the immigrants’ experience on the Oregon Trail that followed the events of the Civil War, the behind-the-scenes situation was even worse to get over with.For a six-month-long shoot that started in August 2021 and concluded in January 2022, “it was one of the most grueling projects they’d ever worked on,” as many actors confessed in an interview with The Atlantic. If anything, while the characters not being able to make it out alive was one thing, the cast and crew faced a harder time as pretty much everything was against them.
