The actor and country music superstar chats in-depth with Forbes about his new Paramount Plus series ‘1883’ and reveals what fans can expect from his upcoming live tour.
His hit song “Humble And Kind” is not just a sweet melody when it comes the man we call Tim McGraw. When speaking with the passionate actor and country music superstar, he seems to live and breathe those positive words with his naturally engaging and welcoming presence as we discussed his new television series 1883, which is now streaming on Paramount Plus. “I wasn’t looking for anything to do,” McGraw reveals to me about his journey finding this project alongside his fellow superstar wife Faith Hill. “I wasn’t looking for a film, wasn’t looking for a series for sure, anything like that. When we read the script, Faith and I both read the script, it was magic. It was so well-written.” McGraw goes on to say that he and Hill have been big fans of the hit Yellowstone series since the very beginning, a modern storytelling starring Kevin Costner that is set in the same fictional universe as 1883, with McGraw’s project being a prequel origin story. McGraw continues about his admiration for this original tale saying, “When something’s that good, as an artist, that’s what moves you. That’s what makes you want to do stuff. It’s not about looking for a project or doing a project just to be doing a project. It’s about something that viscerally moves you and that’s what this script did.” On 1883, McGraw plays James Dutton, the man who initially founded Yellowstone Ranch. Early on in this new series, it becomes very clear that Dutton is a man that will protect his family from the outside world at any cost, a mentality McGraw says he relates to all too well. “I have three daughters and a wife and grew up with two sisters and my mom. There’s that sort of protection mode that I have instinctively anyway. To be able to bring that to life on-screen and put that into extenuating circumstances was hard to turn down and something that I felt like I could put myself into pretty easily.” This will not be the first time McGraw has stepped into the on-screen shoes of Dutton. What began as just one brief stint on Yellowstone has blossomed into fully developed characters on 1883, thanks to the working relationship between McGraw and Yellowstone co-creator & 1883 creator Taylor Sheridan.
