{"id":292723,"date":"2026-05-14T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292723\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:31:20","slug":"christina-alexandra-voros-on-making-dutton-ranch-and-frisco-king-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292723\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Alexandra Voros on making \u2018Dutton Ranch\u2019 and \u2018Frisco King\u2019 in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDutton Ranch\u201d<\/a> director Christina Alexandra Voros<\/a> has spent quite a bit of time in North Texas over the past few years.<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old Massachusetts native has worked as a cinematographer and director since the late 2000s, racking up a number of film and television credits. In 2019, she was hired as cinematographer for three episodes in \u201cYellowstone\u201d season 2.<\/p>\n

That turned out to be the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between Sheridan and Voros, who ended up directing 12 episodes over the final three seasons of \u201cYellowstone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since 2021, Voros has directed episodes of \u201c1883,\u201d \u201cLawmen: Bass Reeves,\u201d \u201cThe Madison,\u201d<\/a> \u201cDutton Ranch\u201d and the upcoming \u201cFrisco King.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Ahead of the Friday, May 15, series premiere of \u201cDutton Ranch,\u201d Voros spoke with the Star-Telegram about directing the Texas-set show<\/a> and how things are going on the Samuel L. Jackson-led \u201cFrisco King.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.<\/p>\n

Star-Telegram: I\u2019m curious for \u201cDutton Ranch,\u201d how you captured the look and feel of South Texas while shooting primarily in North Texas?<\/p>\n

Christina Alexandra Voros: It\u2019s something we were very aware of through the entire prep process. We were looking at an area down near Cotulla, Texas, kind of as a frame of reference. Our production designer did a lot of visual research trying to make sure that the kind of building, the kind of landscape that we were working with, was being authentic as possible, considering we weren\u2019t shooting in that part of the state. I\u2019m from New England, and then I moved to West Texas, and by West Texas, I mean real West Texas out near Van Horn.<\/p>\n

I love shooting in Texas because there\u2019s so many different ecosystems and each one is very specific. To an outsider, it might just look like hot prairie and the scalding sun, but it\u2019s different, from the kind of cacti you see to the kind of buildings there are, to how far places are from railroad tracks. It\u2019s something that we paid a lot of attention to in the production design and planning of the show.<\/p>\n

\"L-R:<\/p>\n

L-R: J.R. Villarreal as Azul, Kelly Reilly as Beth Dutton, and Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler in Dutton Ranch, episode 4, season 1, streaming on Paramount+, 2026.<\/p>\n

S-T: For you personally, how are you finding living and working in Texas over the last few years?<\/p>\n

CAV: I never would have thought it possible. I am so happy that this is my life. My husband and I just bought a place in Fort Worth because we weren\u2019t getting back to Van Horn often enough. We\u2019re spending all our time here, it seems. It\u2019s a real joy to shoot in Texas. To those who have not spent time there, Texas is one state with one name. To those of us who\u2019ve spent time, and are lucky enough to live here, there\u2019s so many different versions of Texas. There\u2019s so many different landscapes of Texas, and cultures of Texas.<\/p>\n

Being based out of Fort Worth on a lot of these Taylor [Sheridan] shows really gives you the opportunity. It\u2019s a wonderful base camp to be able to jump off. Obviously, we try to keep as much of it close to Fort Worth as possible, but even going one hour north versus one hour south versus west versus east, you find all these different communities and these different landscapes. It lends itself to creating these fictional narratives really beautifully.<\/p>\n

\"L-R:<\/p>\n

L-R: Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler and Kelly Reilly as Beth Dutton in \u201cDutton Ranch,\u201d episode 1, season 1, streaming on Paramount+, 2026.<\/p>\n

S-T: You\u2019re right in the middle of shooting \u201cFrisco King.\u201d We\u2019ve seen Samuel L. Jackson around town<\/a>. How\u2019s that going?<\/p>\n

CAV: It\u2019s going great. It is so much fun. Samuel L. Jackson is a legend, and a marvelous human being to show up at work with every day. The crew is a lot of the same crew that worked with us on \u201cDutton Ranch,\u201d so it feels like a real family moved to the next show.<\/p>\n

\u201cDutton Ranch\u201d premieres May 15 on Paramount+ and the Paramount Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDutton Ranch\u201d director Christina Alexandra Voros has spent quite a bit of time in North Texas over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[106989,29534,116,118,117,430,72044,27,375],"class_list":["post-292723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-christina-alexandra-voros","tag-dutton-ranch","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-north-texas","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-texas","tag-west-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}