1923 paid tribute to the late Cole Brings Loads, who performed Pete Loads Clouds in Season 1, within the Season 2 premiere that debuted on Sunday, February 23 on Paramount+. The actor, whose uncle is Yellowstone star Mo Brings Loads, died in April 2024 at age 27. His 1923 character is a love curiosity for Aminah Nieves‘s Teonna Rainwater (pictured above, left, subsequent to Brings Loads’s Pete, proper). TV Insider related with Nieves forward of the 1923 premiere, and he or she opened up about honoring Brings Loads’s reminiscence whereas increasing Teonna and Pete’s storyline in Season 2.
The 1923 Season 2 premiere opens with an in memoriam to Brings Loads, exhibiting footage of him as Pete in Season 1. Pete is performed by Jeremy Gauna in Season 2. Honoring Brings Loads’s contributions to the sequence by recasting the position as a substitute of writing Pete out of the story is “the perfect factor we may’ve accomplished,” Nieves tells TV Insider. She admits that she struggled to return to the sequence as she grieved the dying of her buddy.
“I may have simply gone into this with a variety of resentment and with a variety of hate and a variety of ache. And it’s to not say that I didn’t at first, however there comes a second the place it’s a must to actually take into consideration the person who Coco was,” Nieves shares. “And he’s my brother. We talked day by day about this. He lives on and with us day by day. He was so excited and so joyful to be part of one thing of this magnitude. I may have sat there and been unhappy, or I may have sat there and honored him in the easiest way and uplifted Jeremy Gauna too for coming right here and holding all of that weight, which it’s an excessive weight to carry and to return in and take over for Coco. And he did it with such grace.”
Jeremy Gauna as Pete Loads Clouds in ‘1923’ Season 2 Episode 1 (Ryan Inexperienced / Paramount+)
“I believe everybody felt like, in these moments once we have been there and Pete was there, Coco was additionally resting his fingers on us and was like, it’s OK. Please, you guys obtained this,” she continues. “He actually allowed us to dip in some a lot wanted pleasure and moments when it felt like virtually like, why? It was loads. It was loads. However I really like my brother, and I believe all of us did as finest as we may. And I do know Jeremy did the perfect that he ever may and it’s going to be nice.”
Nieves’ Teonna begins off in a a lot safer place in 1923 Season 2, albeit she’s nonetheless on the run from Father Renaud (Sebastian Roché) and the vicious Marshall Thomas (Ross Crain) who’re looking her down for murdering the nuns who abused her on the residential faculty in Season 1. Teonna and Pete are guided by Teonna’s father, Runs His Horse (Michael Spears), as they trek via what they thought was Oklahoma however is definitely Texas.
1923, Sundays, Paramount+