Taylor Sheridan’s The Madison is an emotional adventure that navigates highs and lows after the Clyburn family loses patriarch Preston and his brother Paul in a plane crash. Audiences watch the family struggle with grief and disconnection, while they also find a new community within Montana’s Madison River Valley, which gives the series its name.

In an interview, cast members Kevin Zegers (who plays Cade Harris), Danielle Vasinova (Kestrel Harris), Ben Schnetzer (Van Davis), Rebecca Spence (Liliana Weeks) and Alaina Pollack (Macy Reese) shared some of their favorite moments from The Madison. They also spoke on what stood out to them about their characters. Plus, how did they handle some of the season’s emotional scenes?

Brittany Frederick: Alaina, you have one of the breakout roles in The Madison. What was it like being part of the Clyburn family with all of these talented actors?

Alaina Pollack: I love all of them so much. I honestly feel like I gained another family from this show. We’re all so close, and everyone is so supportive and protective, and so, so great.

I feel so lucky to work with these people, and work in this setting, and work with my director Christina [Alexandra Voros] and Taylor [Sheridan]. Everyone is so amazing. Taylor, the first time I met him, we were in Texas for a table read. I was sitting down and I was shaking, I was so nervous. Taylor walked in and I got up to shake his hand and say hello, and he just gave me a hug. He was like, we do hugs around here, and that’s how he’s greeted me every time since.

Kevin, playing Cade is incredibly different from your recent TV roles, such as starring in The Rookie: Feds. Was it a challenge to step into this character?

Kevin Zegers: I feel like this is probably the closest to my own life that I’ve done.. My personal life is very much, I try to set it up in a way that’s similar to the way that Cade, is with trying to be of service to my family. And I’m in recovery, so I try to be of service to the people in in that part of my life, too.

So there was just something about Cade and about his role in the story that I felt like I was uniquely in a position in my life to be able to do, and I probably wouldn’t have been five or ten years ago. It’s kind of the first time that I was like okay, I’m gonna dump as much of my own personal life into this guy as I can. Which is why it felt so nice to do.

Read the rest of this interview at Fangirlish.

The Madison is now streaming on Paramount+. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Paramount+.

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