"Brandon Sklenar is bawling his eyes out. It's 2022, he's thirty-one years old, and he just left the biggest audition of his life: 1923, the Yellowstone prequel from TV kingpin Taylor Sheridan. The adrenaline is surging through his body, so Sklenar races to the bathrooma space to breathe. Rejection hits heavy and often in acting, which he knows painfully well, but this time is different. He can feel with a rare certainty that his hard work has finally paid off, and he's overcome with relief."
"I left the room and called my dad like, I fucking got this,' he recalls. I'm pretty fucking sure.' Five minutes after he left the audition, Sheridan confirmed the actor's suspicions. After grinding out bit parts in Vice and Westworld, Sklenar would finally star in his own seriesa period western for Paramount costarring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. Fast-forward three years and now he's racking up more roles than he can count."
Brandon Sklenar experienced a pivotal audition moment in 2022 at age thirty-one for 1923, the Yellowstone prequel by Taylor Sheridan, and felt immediate relief and certainty afterward. Ten minutes later the casting confirmation validated that feeling. He transitioned from small roles in Vice and Westworld to a starring part opposite Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. Sklenar portrayed Spencer Dutton, a World War I hero who returns to save his family's Montana ranch in a period western. Over the following three years he accumulated many more roles and career momentum.
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