The Madison made quite a splash when it aired, and the reunion of Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell was a big reason why, with audiences eager to see the two share the screen again. But the show’s pull ran deeper than its star pairing. A good part of its impact came from how convincingly Pfeiffer portrayed Stacy, a woman navigating life as a widow, with a rawness that viewers found hard to shake.

The actress has now reflected on how she got it so spot on, revealing that the performance came from a very personal place.

In The Madison, Michelle Pfeiffer plays Stacy Clyburn, a self-described “city mouse” and Manhattan matriarch whose seemingly secure world collapses when her husband Preston, played by Kurt Russell, dies in a plane crash alongside his brother. The role asked Pfeiffer to sit with raw, unfiltered grief for much of the series, balancing the strength of a matriarch with the cracks of a widow still coming to terms with her loss.

"I’ve lost a few people. And, for some reason, I just tapped into something." Pfeiffer said.

  During a screening of the Paramount+ drama at The Ross House in Los Angeles on Nov. 5, Pfeiffer, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, also said that Taylor Sheridan did not have a script when he initially approached her. The uncertainty that it stemmed from had no effect on the execution, and that the drama is returning with a Season 2 is proof of the same.

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With the new season already in the can, attention now turns to what lies ahead for Stacy and the Clyburns once the dust of loss begins to settle.

Season 2 of The Madison picks up after the initial wave of raw grief has passed and some time has gone by. With Preston gone, the Clyburn family is back in Montana, left to deal with the aftermath of the plane crash and to work out what life looks like without the man who held them together. For Stacy, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, the story shifts from surviving loss to rebuilding everything that fell apart, while the family’s dynamics, old tensions, and ties to the Madison River Valley are tested all over again.

The season has already wrapped filming and is reported to run six episodes, though Paramount+ has not announced a release date. The show has also been renewed for a third season, a sign of the confidence behind a series that opened with a record debut for Taylor Sheridan.

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