Grab your passport! Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford have revealed 1923 is going global once again in season 2. 

The actors — who star as Cara and Jacob Dutton on the Golden Globe-nominated Yellowstone prequel — tell Entertainment Weekly that the forthcoming season of the Taylor Sheridan-penned Western will see its cast of characters setting out to explore brand new frontiers.

“Obviously, Harrison and I are a part of it. There are many other adventures happening all over the world,” Mirren explains. “And that’s the extraordinary thing Taylor has done, is written a worldwide story.”

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Despite the many miles separating the Dutton family, the Oscar-winning actress says that Sheridan managed to highlight the massive scale of this season while also making sure that individual storylines felt contained and “deeply personal.”

“The relationship between Cara and Jacob is absolutely intimate and small and domestic — but, at the same time, [the show’s] massive. It’s epic. It’s huge,” she adds. “So we’ve got that wonderful mix of the hugeness of human life and then the small, intimate details of human life as well.” 

The first season of 1923 ended with several of its characters scattered across the globe, with Spencer Dutton (Brandon Sklenar) heading back home to Montana to protect his family and their ranch; his wife Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer) being forcibly shipped back to England by her parents; and Teonna (Aminah Nieves) having fled South with her father after killing Sister Mary (Jennifer Ehle); and Father Renaud (Sebastian Roché) and Marshal Kent (Jamie McShane) chasing after them. 

Spencer’s separation from his family, in particular, is causing extreme hardship for Cara and Jacob, who are trying to keep their heads above water amid growing financial difficulties and a brutal winter. 

“The pressure of everyday life in this context — especially in winter, and especially when you’re beset by enemies on every every edge of your life — there are financial issues that have come to their crux. There’s the physical threat to the lives of the Duttons, and the family is not yet together in order to be able to push back against some of these threats,” Ford says. “So the strings are coming together to knit the whole thing into a really fantastic fabric, which supplies the storylines for this season of the show.” 

All of these pressures have also fundamentally transformed their characters into hardened survivalists. “The personalities of the people that we play are forged by these circumstances in a way that’s very hard to imagine living a contemporary life,” Ford says. “This is a tough, tough life, and it bred really tough people who had to do things that were either distasteful or impossible for people in our culture to deal with, or even conceive of dealing [with], in life.”

Mirren adds that the couple is choosing to focus on the present — rather than the looming chaos that lies ahead — when viewers first meet them in season 2.

“I don’t think these are people who particularly think about what they’re thinking about, if you know what I mean,” she adds. “They are the sort of people who just deal with what’s immediately in front of their eyes, and they don’t think about the implications of anything. The only way they can survive is simply by driving forward.” 

1923 season 2 premieres Feb. 23 on Paramount+.