Michelle Pfeiffer is revealing the unglamorous conditions of filming Taylor Sheridan’s show The Madison.
During a recent appearance on the Los Angeles Times podcast, Pfeiffer — who stars as Stacy Clyburn in the Yellowstone creator’s latest Paramount+ TV show — said that the sets in Montana and Texas were often brutally bare-boned without running water or electricity.
“You may as well be in a tent because, you know, there is no bathroom,” Pfeiffer, 67, said about filming scenes for the series on open land. “Even the outhouse is not real. So there’s no AC, there’s no plumbing, there isn’t anything. But it is breakthtakingly glorious.”
The Golden Globe Award-winning actress continued: “It took a while [to get used to] because they built that cabin. It was all a little bit rushed for everyone and so there weren’t certain accommodations set up.”
Pfeiffer also added that there were not trailers in the open terrain because they would have been visible in the background of scenes.
“There was really no place for us to sit,” she said. “There was no bathroom nearby. There was no food. And in the winter, it was cold. It was like, ‘Could we have a heater?’ And in the summer, it was like, ‘Could I get an umbrella?’ Because the sun’s really intense. It took us about halfway through to figure all of that out.”
The Madison follows Pfeiffer’s grieving New Yorker, Stacy, who relocates her family to the Madison River valley of central Montana after the death of her husband (played by Ken Russell).
The first season of the standalone series aired in March. The second season has already been filmed and is expected to air either late this year or early 2027. It has already been renewed for season three, which will see both Pfeiffer and Russell return.
Pfeiffer said earlier this year that her decision to join the show was a big leap of faith due to the fact that she could not read the script before accepting the role. She told Entertainment Weekly at the show’s New York City premiere in March: “I committed to it without even having read anything. It was really just [Sheridan] explaining the scope of the character and kind of the outline of where it was going.”
Sheridan then explainedrushed that he preferred to cast his projects before writing them, with Pfeiffer continuing: “We went back and forth over a couple of weeks like that, and then I realized I wasn’t going to win this argument and I was either going to have to commit or give it up.”
