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If the Taylor Sheridan-verse seems to be expanding by the day, thats because it is.
The quartet also joined us in the video studio at Vulture Festival to discuss their time in Oklahoma.
You canwatch their conversation here.
He said, Hey, Taylor Sheridan reached out.
He has a show that Sly Stallone is attached to and they want you to be involved in it.
I said I gotta think about that yeah, Ill do it!
I said, What if its even more obscure?
Which to me, as a New Yorker, felt like the middle of another planet.
And more specifically, Tulsa.
And what if hes got a family, an actual family, that hes estranged from?
We started layering on all these different elements, and thats where you end up from the pilot.
How was it shooting in Oklahoma?Andrea Savage:I didnt know what to expect from Oklahoma.
I really liked it!
It has a really fantastic art scene, fantastic restaurants.
I kept saying it feels like an early Austin.
Its much more progressive than a lot of the rest of the state.
TW:Andrea and I actually stumbled onto the Pigeon Museum in Oklahoma.
We went as a joke and ended up spending 90 minutes there.
What is in the pigeon museum?TW:Pigeons!
AS:The history of the Fanciers, the people who are very into pigeons!
Paramount+ is callingTulsa Kingan original comedy, but it feels like a dramedy to me.
How do you classify it?TW:I wrote it with a comedic bent.
And there arent really jokes, just circumstances.
It really is a mix.
It is a dark comedy.
Sylvester Stallone seems like one of those figures that looms very large in the culture.
I would be intimidated to meet him.
He could not have been nicer, and I met him for 30 seconds.
They always say, dont meet your heroes.
This hero, you’re able to meet.
This guy is so cool, so funny, self-deprecating.
Everything you hope he would be.
And hes really smart.
Hes very close to Dwight, aside from the hit-you-over-the-head-and-punch-you-in-the-face stuff.
But check back in a year, maybe hell knock me out.
DD:And hes very aware that he intimidates people.
He goes out of his way, especially with actors, to put them at ease.
I went to this trainer, Gunnar Peterson Slys been training with him for a long time.
Over the years, we ran into each other and he was always so supportive.
I was like,Man, this guy doesnt have this intimidating ego.
Hes unbelievably sweet.I just loved him.
AS:I was very intimidated to meet him!
Wed never met before our first scene.
The most fit human Ive ever been in a room with.
We sort of ran through the scene, we were like Is this working?
Dead-on impression, I know.
TW:I would have sworn Sly was sitting here.
It couldve gone either way!
And he really laughed.
We broke the ice right away and then we really had a good time.
One of the funny moments in this episode is when Stacy realizes his age.
A lot of times, older men will hook up with a younger woman and no one acknowledges it.
It needed to be in there, you know?
I couldnt let that be one of those moments, because that drives me insane as well.
TW:Sly even talks about it.
He loves the idea that he cant believe hes 75 either.
Hes just as shocked as she is, in some ways.
He certainly doesnt look like hes 75 or act like hes 75.
He has the gait of a 35-year-old.
Andrea, we find out at the end of this episode that Stacy is an ATF agent.
That seems like a problem if they continue to have a relationship.AS:A little snag!
You make some interesting choices when youre reassessing life.
Theres something guys understand from being locked up.
You got a dark past, working through some shit, its a new future.
But maybe its hard to live happily.
And starts from the ground up: planting his footing there, building his empire.
Its his time to shine.
We have not had the pleasure of meeting your character yet, Dana.
She comes into the picture in episode three.
Hes wearing a fancy suit and alligator shoes and Im like, Yeah, youre not a detective.
I just think of him as Sly!
AS:We keep calling him Sly!
TW:Very thin line between those two.
AS:Verythin line.
He said, Okay, can you stay on for five minutes?
I said, Yeah, I can do that.
But then I really thought, I want to get over this.
Chloe Webb, who was inChina Beachwith me, has become a horse therapist.
She uses horses to do emotional therapy and shes fantastic at it.
She works up in Malibu, so I booked a session with her.
And I just started weeping like a baby.
I ride in the show!
How did you make decisions about what he would be aware of?TW:Its tricky.
In prison youre isolated to a certain degree, but youre not completely unaware of things.
The idea that coffee costs $5 a cup, thats something you dont encounter in prison.
I havent been in prison and I cant fucking believe it!
Every time I go to Starbucks Im like,This is insane!
AS:I feel like quite a few of them are just Terry being really pissed about things.
TW:I can barely work Uber myself!
Do you hate Soul Cycle?TW:Not particularly, but thats another thing.
Or you see people running around on scooters.
Again, trying to pick the things he wouldnt necessarily know.
That too.TW:Theres certainly parallels between a guy like Sly and a guy like John Dutton.
They do what they want, they take what they want.
Theyre outsiders in some ways.
They come in and stake a claim to things.
All of this stuff is new to me.
Also, I understand that I have a slight New York accent.
To see how people relate to me, and would they know I wasnt from Oklahoma?
Thats something I stumbled upon when I got there.
So yeah, I kind of had the Dwight experience.
Its really one of the best moments in the first season.
