BEHIND-THE-SCENES NIGHTMARE: ‘THE MADISON...

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The stunning backdrop of The Madison required the cast to make some pretty big sacrifices.

Michelle Pfeiffer revealed on the Los Angeles Times’ In Conversation podcast that there was quite a lot of roughing it on the set of the hit Taylor Sheridan series, as there was no plumbing or infrastructure for the cast.

The cabins along the river where Preston (Kurt Russell) and his brother, Paul (Matthew Fox), lived were constructed for the show, and Pfeiffer, 68, said the cast might as well have been “in a tent.”

“It was all a little bit rushed for everyone, and so there weren’t certain accommodations set up,” she said. “There is no bathroom, even the outhouse is not real. So there’s no AC, there’s no plumbing, there isn’t anything. But it is breathtakingly glorious.”

Patrick J. Adams as Russell McIntosh, Elle Chapman as Paige McIntosh, Beau Garrett as Abigail Reese, Alaina Pollack as Macy Reese, Amiah Miller as Brigitte Reese, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn in ‘The Madison’.

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Admittedly, it “took a while” for the cast to get used to the setting and the sparse amenities available. “We didn’t really have trailers there, because they were shooting 360, so they couldn’t have a bunch of trailers around. So there’s really no place for us to sit,” Pfeiffer continued.

“There was no bathroom nearby. There was no food. And in the winter, it was cold. It was like, ‘Could we have a heater?’ And in the summer, it was like, ‘Could I get an umbrella because the sun’s really intense?’”

She said it took the cast until “about halfway through [filming] to figure all of that out.”

In The Madison, Pfeiffer plays Stacy Clyburn, who finds herself widowed after a tragic accident kills her husband, Preston, and his brother, Paul. Their deaths drag Stacy and her family — her two daughters, son-in-law and two granddaughters — to Montana. It’s part tragedy, part sweeping romance, as the decades-long love story between Stacy and Preston is the throughline of the series.

The cast filmed season 2 right after wrapping season 1 — which was done in order to secure Russell as Preston —and in the next installment, “the level of real danger goes up,” he told Variety.

“Things begin to become dangerous in realistic ways,” Russell teased.

As for what’s to come for Stacy, Pfeiffer told the outlet that season 2 picks up “after the initial stage of raw grief passes, and some time has gone by.”

“It’s the messy and profound rebuilding of everything that you knew after everything that you knew has fallen apart and what that looks like,” she said.

The Madison is now streaming on Paramount+