Faith Hill learned never to say never.
The 54-year-old singer said she thought she was done with acting after appearing in 2004’s bombshell The Stepford Wives.
In an interview on Tuesday’s The Kelly Clarkson Show, the This Kiss singer said the cast, which included Nicole Kidman, Better Midler, Glenn Close, Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken, was great, but she didn’t like the slow-paced nature of filmmaking gradient.
Acting: Faith Hill told Kelly Clarkson that she thought she would never act again after starring in The Stepford Wives, but changed her mind after reading the 1883 script
Slow down: The This Kiss singer said the cast for the 2004 sci-fi film was fantastic, but she didn’t like the slow-paced nature of filmmaking, explaining, “I have to be busy and doing stuff.” Image left with Nicole Kidman at right
“It wasn’t the best experience, so I said, ‘I’ll never, ever, ever do a movie like that again. I have to be busy and doing stuff,” Hill added.
“Hurry up and wait,” agreed Kelly, 40.
The Wild One artist revealed that she spent most of her childhood as a performer and acted in plays throughout her schooling, but then she was discovered and focused on her singing.
“My career was picking up speed, no time, was having babies, kept having babies, felt like I was having babies all the time,” she said.
Appearances: The 54-year-old Wild One singer revealed that she grew up in school plays but was spotted for her singing talent and has focused on her music career
The Grammy winner and country music superstar husband Tim McGraw, 55, whom she married in 1996, had their children back-to-back and are parents to Gracie, 25, Maggie, 23, and Audrey, 20.
More than a decade after The Stepford Wives, the There You’ll Be singer decided to give acting another try.
“I did an independent thing called Dixieland. I’ve read a lot of scripts over the years and nothing has hit me or the timing wasn’t right,” she explained.
That is, until 1883 came. The series was a prequel to the hit series Yellowstone and focuses on the origins of the Dutton family. Faith and Tim star as Margaret and James Dutton, who leave their home in Tennessee hoping to hitch a ride with their teenage daughter Elsa, played by Isabel May, 21, and their young son John, played by Audie Rick to travel to Oregon. six.
“For the script to be so incredibly well written,” Hill explained, “I honestly have never read anything like it. So we just made the decision to do it.
Look: The busy artist said: “I’ve read a lot of scripts over the years and nothing has hit me or the timing wasn’t right,” but then she and her husband Tim McGraw, 55, were given the script for 1883
Prequel: Faith plays Margaret Dutton, a mother who travels across the prairie with her husband, teenage daughter and young son in hopes of getting safely to Oregon in the Yellowstone prequel
The show has received an 88 percent approval rating from critics at Rotten Tomatoes.
Faith will find out if her peers appreciated her work on the dark drama when the Emmy nominations are announced on July 12.
1883 will be back with more episodes. The Paramount+ saga was originally scheduled to end after nine episodes, but the western was so well received that the network commissioned more episodes.
More to come: The series was so well received by audiences that Paramount+ decided to renew the original nine episodes and ordered more episodes of the drama