Spoilers for the Season 2 premiere of 1923 lie forward. In case you are not caught up, you possibly can stream the Western with a Paramount+ subscription and catch new episodes after that each Sunday.
Effectively, 1923’s season on the 2025 TV schedule began with a bang and an enormous reveal. When it comes to the large reveal, I’m referring to the truth that Alex, Spencer Dutton’s spouse, is pregnant and he or she’s “working out of time” to get to America and again to him. Clearly, it is a massive deal for the present typically. Nonetheless, it additionally has the potential to affect your complete Dutton household tree. So, with that in thoughts, I requested the actress behind Alex, Julia Schlaepfer, in regards to the theories surrounding the Yellowstone characters’ ancestors and the way her character performs into it.
All of the connections between the assorted Yellowstone exhibits fascinate me to no finish. I’m significantly intrigued by the connections between 1923 and the fashionable Yellowstone Duttons, who had been led by Kevin Costner’s John. For the time being, we don’t know whether or not Jack or Spencer is the grandfather of John III and the great-grandfather of Beth, Kayce, Lee and Jamie. Nonetheless, the event that Alex is pregnant definitely places some exclamation factors behind the query mark.
Serious about all that, I requested Schlaepfer how she feels in regards to the discourse surrounding Alex, Spencer and the Dutton household tree, and he or she informed me:
I imply, it is so humorous, as a result of really, everybody was like – they need to know, and we did not know. You already know? We did not know. And actually, nonetheless, we do not know, as a result of there’s so a few years between 1923 and immediately, I do not know, something might occur. It is so cool that folks actually care.
Individuals actually do care, together with me, and I’ve spent a very long time serious about which Dutton may very well be the grandfather of John Dutton in Yellowstone. Listed below are the 2 theories:
- Jack and Elizabeth are the dad and mom of John Dutton II, who’s the daddy of John Dutton III (Costner). This is able to make sense, as a result of Jack’s father is John Dutton Sr., and he handed away early in Season 1. I might see them naming their son after him. Nonetheless, Elizabeth had a miscarriage throughout Season 1, making the way forward for these two having youngsters unclear.
- Spencer and Alex are the dad and mom of John Dutton II. Contemplating Spencer is John’s youthful brother, it might additionally make sense for him and Alex to move down that identify. Plus, Alex is now pregnant on the present, that means it’s doable she’ll give delivery to John Dutton II.
Based mostly on the precise yr Kevin Costner was born, 1955, and assuming his character John is across the identical age, it’s not far-fetched to imagine that his father would have been born throughout the Twenties and been in his early 30s when his son was born. Due to this fact, it tracks that both Jack or Spencer could be John Dutton III’s grandfather.
Nonetheless, Schlaepfer would love us to know that there might all the time be a twist, and the Dutton household tree continues to be very a lot in flux, as she defined:
We do discover out she’s pregnant, and it is thrilling. It is thrilling to suppose that may very well be a legacy for the household. And, yeah, it is a particular world to be part of, no matter who’s the nice, nice, nice, you recognize, no matter of the household. I simply really feel so honored to be part of the household in any approach.
Personally, I feel it’d make good sense if that child she’s carrying ended up being John Dutton II. I’ve all the time felt like Alex had some Beth in her, and contemplating Spencer is about as much as be certainly one of, if not the, massive hero of this story, it’d take advantage of sense in the event that they had been the couple to straight proceed the Dutton lineage.
That’s only a idea although. So, whereas Spencer and Alex discover their approach again to one another, we’ll simply have to carry on tight for this wild journey that can hopefully conclude with a wholesome child and a definitive reply about which Dutton from the 1923 technology is the direct ancestor of the Duttons we all know in Yellowstone.