We filmed so fast and so furious.
It was a big learning curve.
Im glad I know those things now.
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SCHLAEPFER: Yeah, I did.
A lot of what was documented was how wonderful Ellis Island was and how high everyone’s spirits were.
It’s also a vulnerable moment for you, the actor.
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He knew what that would entail for me as an actor.
I said, Absolutely.
I want to tell that story.
It’s what so many people went through.
Then I spoke with the intimacy coordinator, her name is Sarah Scott.
She has literally a life growing inside of her.
The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.
It’s a really beautiful side we see to her.
She has to dig so deep in herself to figure out how to literally, physically keep going.
SCHLAEPFER: It’s so major.
Those are such important moments.
It’s like a sigh of relief, but also this mini-celebration of, Okay, Ive got this.
I can do this going into Episode 4.
We’re going to make it.
How does this experience strengthen Alex as a character moving forward?
She’s gone through this gauntlet and made it through the other side now.
SCHLAEPFER: Early in Season 1, you see her go through so many other types of challenges.
So, getting through that, completely, we find a new level of strength from her.
At this point, she feels like, Okay, I got through that.
I made it through that.
I can get through anything.
SCHLAEPFER: 100%.
I thinkAlex has always, since she was a child, wanted adventure.
She wanted to see the world.
She didn’t know what that meant, but she wanted it.
She got her wish in Season 1.
She watches Spencer kill a man.
Anyone’s life could end.
I don’t have this big burly man to save me.
I just have myself.
How does her love and devotion to him and their baby really serve as that North Star for her?
It’s in a time when there were no phones and no outside noise.
Two people met, and they were like, You are my soulmate.
You are for me.
She made a commitment to him and to the Dutton family when she said shed meet him in Bozeman.
If there’s anything she is, she’s a woman of her word, and she’s loyal.
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