‘1923’ Star Brandon Sklenar on His Physical Transformation for Season 2: ‘I Wanted to Feel Scary’

If “1923” had a breakout star, it was undeniably Brandon Sklenar.
As Spencer Dutton, the World War I-veteran-turned-big-game-hunter (and surrogate son to Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford’s Cara and Jacob Dutton), Sklenar felt like the biggest leading man you had never seen before. Everything he did felt effortless (and effortlessly cool) – he fell in love with an impossibly beautiful woman (Julia Schlaepfer’s Alexandra), he killed lions and he found trouble wherever he went, including on a luxury ocean liner they were taking back to America.
And that is where we meet Spencer Dutton at the beginning of Season 2 of “1923” – on that ocean liner, still trying to make it back to his family. And this time he has been separated from Alexandra too.
TheWrap talked to Sklenar, who in the time between “1923” seasons has become a legitimate movie star, having co-starred in “It Ends With Us” and...
As Spencer Dutton, the World War I-veteran-turned-big-game-hunter (and surrogate son to Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford’s Cara and Jacob Dutton), Sklenar felt like the biggest leading man you had never seen before. Everything he did felt effortless (and effortlessly cool) – he fell in love with an impossibly beautiful woman (Julia Schlaepfer’s Alexandra), he killed lions and he found trouble wherever he went, including on a luxury ocean liner they were taking back to America.
And that is where we meet Spencer Dutton at the beginning of Season 2 of “1923” – on that ocean liner, still trying to make it back to his family. And this time he has been separated from Alexandra too.
TheWrap talked to Sklenar, who in the time between “1923” seasons has become a legitimate movie star, having co-starred in “It Ends With Us” and...
- 2/28/2025
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
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