The male cast of 1923 love to swarm Harrison Ford on set, Helen Mirren said this week.
Ford and Mirren co-star as married couple Cara and Jacon Dutton on Taylor Sheridan‘s Yellowstone spinoff, which is a prequel to the original show and sequel to 1883. 1923 returned for season two on Sunday.
“He’s always so lovely to all the other actors,” Mirren told People this week of 1923‘s set. “Harrison is such a bloke. He’s what in England we call a bloke,” she continued. “He is a guy, and because he’s a bloke, all the other blokes absolutely love him, and quite rightfully.”
Mirren went on to say the cast frequently sits “in the freezing cold on set, on funny, funky, little uncomfortable chairs, and the other guys just gather around Harrison because they just want to be in his company, I think.”
What does Mirren do? “I tag along.” The actress sang her co-star’s friendly praises, too. “Harrison is not like an ‘I’m going to my trailer’ person,” she said. “I don’t think I ever knew him [or] remember him going, ever, to his trailer. We hang around on the set and we do our thing.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Ford told the outlet that Mirren is “what we used to call a broad — and there’s no disparagement in calling a dame a broad.”
He continued, “It means that she’s a woman that has the bandwidth to hang with men — not just to be a lady with them, but to actually hang with them. She’s a real cool lady.”
Also this week, Ford told The Hollywood Reporter that he’s always loved the Western genre.
“I love the viscerality of it, I love the physical nature of the storytelling, I love being in natural circumstances,” Ford said, adding that it’s “a kind of old-fashioned movie-making mostly, no CGI or very little CGI — a little something to sweeten the location. But it’s really essential, old-time storytelling and I love working with this kind of material.”
The second season of 1923 premieres Sunday on Paramount+.