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On June 4, the\u00a0IndieWire\u00a0Honors\u00a0Spring 2026 ceremony\u00a0will\u00a0celebrate the creators and stars responsible<\/a>\u00a0for crafting some of the year\u2019s best television series. Curated and selected by IndieWire\u2019s editorial team, IndieWire\u00a0Honors\u00a0is a celebration of the creators, artisans, and performers behind shows well worth toasting. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles event, IndieWire is showcasing their work with new\u00a0interviews<\/a>\u00a0and tributes from their peers.<\/p>\n Ahead, \u201cThe Madison<\/a>\u201d star Kurt Russell<\/a>\u00a0tells IndieWire about the many qualities that set our Vanguard Award winner, actress Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a>, apart from the crowd.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, lucky us, it\u2019s a perfect day to shoot this scene.\u201d I\u2019m thinking this quietly in my mind as I\u2019m strolling down to the set near the banks of the Madison River in Montana, where I\u2019ve been shooting for the past three weeks all the scenes my character, Preston Clyburn, appears in during the first season of Taylor Sheridan\u2019s \u201cThe Madison.\u201d <\/p>\n I\u2019ve been having a ball fly fishing different rivers and lazing on the porch of my rustic cabin filming Preston\u2019s side of a number of cell phone conversations between him and his wife, our show\u2019s main character, Stacey. But today is special, because it\u2019s the first day I get to work face to face with the actress who plays Stacey. And I\u2019m genuinely excited, because after a 37-year interlude, I\u2019m about to once again climb into the proverbial sandbox and play all afternoon with Michelle Pfeiffer. Lucky me.<\/p>\n One of the nicest things about our business is, you never know when you may get the chance to experience playing in that sandbox [on \u201cTequila Sunrise\u201d] and bonding again with a great play pal. Sometimes it can happen fairly soon, other times it may be 37 years apart. Either way, when it does happen, it puts a smile in your heart and a little jump in your step. <\/p>\n That\u2019s just how I\u2019m feeling as I\u2019m about to \u201cwork\u201d again with Michelle.<\/p>\n Habit kicks in and I silently start to run a few lines of dialogue in my head when out of the corner of my eye, I see Michelle walking down a gently sloping hill towards the set. And the dialogue running in my head stops, replaced by a soft chuckle and easy smile. \u201cYup, there she is, that\u2019s Michelle all right\u2026 man, she looks great.\u201d Thirty-seven years instantly vanish. <\/p>\n Did I say she was walking to the set? That\u2019s criminally incorrect. She\u2019s actually gliding down through a grassy field in measured thought, composed, concentrated, casually focused on the scene ahead that calls for her character to completely break down at the end of the scene. It\u2019s not an easy scene. In fact, it\u2019s an emotionally gut-wrenching moment of terrifying discovery for Stacey. But you wouldn\u2019t know that by watching Michelle right now. She is by nature effortlessly\u2026 regal.<\/p>\n As she approaches, I can\u2019t help but appreciate her innate ability to, with equal lack of effort or intention, put all the beauty of Montana surrounding us where it belongs\u2026. at her feet. This image of her suddenly reminds me of when a great baseball player takes the field. Everyone witnessing that\u2026 players, fans, writers\u2026 in this scenario \u2014 the whole crew \u2014 all share a distinct moment of RESPECT. It\u2019s the moment when that man, that woman, that\u2026 player, steps into the arena, to put on display, for all to witness, the greatness that has earned that level of respect. What a pleasure, what an honor to work with this woman.<\/p>\n Later on, we\u2019ll laugh and smile with ridiculous pride sharing pictures of our grandchildren to each other, but now it\u2019s time to share our characters. To build a little garden together. After just a couple rehearsals, then a couple of filmed takes we slam it into gear simultaneously, and she is flat out killing it. This girl\u2019s on fire!!<\/p>\n And those 37 years in between suddenly feel like no more than a long weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Madison\u201d is now streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On June 4, the\u00a0IndieWire\u00a0Honors\u00a0Spring 2026 ceremony\u00a0will\u00a0celebrate the creators and stars responsible\u00a0for crafting some of the year\u2019s best television…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,1703,447,134,179201,347188,5296,162674,89137,222401,427],"class_list":["post-715369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-indiewire-honors","tag-indiewire-honors-2026","tag-interviews","tag-kurt-russell","tag-michelle-pfeiffer","tag-the-madison","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Vanguard](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MICHELLE-P.jpg\")
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Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell in \u2018The Madison\u2019Courtesy of Chris Saunders \/ Paramount+<\/p>\n