Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell Reunite On Paramount+ Drama The Madison

Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell are back on screen together, nearly four decades after they last shared a film. They star in The Madison, a drama on Paramount+, the streaming service. The pair last appeared together in the 1988 film Tequila Sunrise, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Pfeiffer plays Stacy Clyburn, a widow who sits at the centre of the family. Russell plays Preston Clyburn, her husband. The show's first episode opens with a shock. Preston is killed in a plane crash in Montana, and his brother Paul dies in the same crash. Matthew Fox plays Paul.

The family's grief runs through the rest of the story. Beau Garrett and Elle Chapman play Stacy's daughters. Will Arnett plays Dr. Phil Yorn, the therapist Stacy turns to. Those roles are part of the show's ensemble, which is built around a family trying to hold together after a sudden loss.

The series has an unusual origin. Taylor Sheridan approached Pfeiffer about writing a part for her before he had a finished script, according to the same report. Sheridan's name has been attached to a number of big television dramas, and the approach shows that the role was shaped around an actor before the story was fully written.

Pfeiffer and Russell spoke about the show at a screening at The Ross House in Los Angeles on Nov. 5. In that conversation, the two actors talk about working together again after so long.

For viewers, the practical point is simple. The Madison is a streaming drama, so it is watched on Paramount+ rather than on a broadcast channel with a fixed weekly time slot. Anyone who wants to see the crash that sets the story in motion can start with the first episode.

The result is a family drama with two well-known leads, a sudden death at its heart, and a reunion that has been a few decades in the making.