'The Madison,' starring Michelle Pfeiffer, premieres March 14 on Paramount+ with three episodes
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NEED TO KNOW
- Taylor Sheridan is sharing some insight into his latest project
- The Yellowstone creator introduced his new series, The Madison, during the show’s New York City premiere on Monday, March 9
- The Madison season 1 premieres on Saturday, March 14, on Paramount+
Taylor Sheridan is "really proud " of his latest project, so he decided to give it a proper intro.
The Yellowstone creator, 55, offered a rare speech on Monday, March 9, as he introduced his new series The Madison during its New York City premiere.
"I can't stand these things," he joked during the Jazz at Lincoln Center event. "So for me to be at one means I'm really proud of the project, which I am."
"Everyone in here's either probably involved in this industry or followed it for a while and knows just how hard it is to get anything made in this business. Even bad ones are hard to make. And I don't think we made a bad one. But I'd like to begin it by thanking my wife who believed in me when no one else did, including myself. Without her I'd just be the coolest acting coach in L.A. I'm really glad I'm not," he added of wife Nicole Muirbrook.
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Sheridan, whose latest series stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, then explained how he moved to New York in his 20s and "had a love-hate relationship" with the city.
As he put it, "sometimes you have to leave a place to really know it and love it," with The Madison being "a story of a family that has to leave it to learn to love it again."
The series follows a "heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana," per a logline, and also features performances from Patrick J. Adams and Matthew Fox, among others.
It "demanded a lot of everyone," Sheridan explained on Monday.
"I don't make anything. I write things down and then I bring together a cast and a crew and I ask them to go make it," the series creator said. "And trucking cameras across rivers and up mountains. So I have a chance here to do what I don't get to do often, which is call them out and thank them personally for their sacrifice and their commitment."
Sheridan went on to shout out the show's production designer, casting director, composer, editors, producers and more.
"They've done a wonderful job and I think you'll see that on the screen. So now no one came here to listen to me. They want to see the movie stars. So I'm going to bring you some movie stars out," he said. "But before I do that, with this project, I had to turn it over to one person and trust that one person to execute my vision and take this on. I'm a big believer that when you find a talent that understands your voice, you need to surrender to that talent."
"Christina Voros directed every episode of [the] show. And she's here tonight," he added. "I'd love to call her out on stage and let you guys show her your appreciation. I think you'll see that she exceeded even my wildest expectations."
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The latest series from the Yellowstone creator takes place in Montana and follows the Clyburn family, New York City transplants living in the Madison River valley.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly earlier this year, Russell, 74, revealed he almost wasn't able to take on the gig due to a prior commitment. Luckily, those behind the show found a way to make it work.
“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 said. “ ‘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.”
The Madison premieres March 14 on Paramount+ with three episodes. The following three will premiere on March 21.
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