The actresses will loom large during the second season of the Taylor Sheridan-produced Paramount+ series.
As the drama continues apace during the second season of 1923, we are noticing how two strong women — one a longtime series regular, the other a welcome newcomer — are making plays for our attention.
On one hand, we have Teonna Rainwater (Aminah Nieves, pictured above), still on the run after killing two sadistic teachers at the Indian Boarding School where she was held against her will, and determined to keep a safe distance from the posse on her trail with help from her father, Broken Rock Reservation chief Runs His Horse (Michael Spears), and the newly orphaned Pete Plenty Clouds (Jeremy Gauna). The three traveling companions have considered lying low in Texas for a spell, to avoid their pursuers. Trouble is, those pursuers are doggedly relentless.
On the other hand, we have Mamie Fossett (Jennifer Carpenter), a calmly self-assured marshal based in Anadarko, Oklahoma, who doesn’t appear terribly impressed when the three men on Teonna’s trail — Father Renaud (Sebastian Roché) of the Indian School, along with Marshall Kent (Jamie McShane) and Marshal Thomas (Ross Crain) — wander into her office to seek, if not demand, her assistance in tracking down their quarry. Fossett is irked by Kent’s condescendingly sexist remarks, but agrees to prepare and distribute wanted posters emblazoned with a sketch of Teonna.
Maybe Fossett will do a little manhunting — or, to be more precise, womanhunting — on her own. And maybe she and Teonna have a date with destiny, and each other, coming up soon.
Nieves and Carpenter took care not to spill any beans during their recent visit to the C&I Studio. (Not a surprise: Producer Taylor Sheridan insists that his actors never reveal too much during interviews.) So the conversation did not stray far from the first two Season 2 episodes, which were directed by series veteran Ben Richardson. (Note Nieves’ fleeting reference to the director while describing a key scene.) Even so, both women were animated and enthusiastic as they discussed their work on 1923.
