Taylor Sheridan Admits He Picks 'Really Inhospitable Places to Film' His Shows: 'It's Miserable'

Yamillah Hurtado, Brendan LeTue, March 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM UTC

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Taylor Sheridan in Dallas, Texas in October 2025Credit: Ryan Emberley/amfAR/Getty -

Taylor Sheridan knows the filming locations for his hit shows can be “miserable”

“To make a project for me is really difficult because I choose really inhospitable places to film,” he said at the New York City premiere of The Madison on March 9

The first three episodes of The Madison are available to stream on Paramount+, with the next three premiering on March 21

Taylor Sheridan is grateful the cast and crew of The Madison wanted to work with him despite picking “miserable" filming locations for his shows.

During an introductory speech at the New York City premiere of the Paramount+ series on Monday, March 9, the show's creator expressed his gratitude to those who traveled “across rivers and up mountains” to make his latest show, which was primarily filmed in Montana, come alive.

“To make a project for me is really difficult because I choose really inhospitable places to film,” Sheridan, 55, said at the Jazz at Lincoln Center event. “It’s miserable. It’s a very emotionally taxing project, this one, because it’s about grief and family and tearing apart and coming back together. It demanded a lot from everyone.”

“I can come up with any cockamamie idea I want. I don’t make anything; I write things down and then I bring together a cast and a crew and I ask them to go make it,” he added, before thanking several of his crew members and director Christina Voros.

'The Madison'Credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+

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For Matthew Fox, who plays Paul Clyburn in The Madison, filming in Montana reminded him of home.

“I grew up in Northwestern Wyoming, just south of where the Madison is in Montana. And I grew up in the Wind River Valley,” he said during the New York City event. “Honestly, the kind of vistas that you see, the kind of landscape is very, very similar. So it felt like I was just home, and I love that.”

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Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox in 'the Madison'Credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+

The drama follows the Clyburns, a New York City family, as they move from the city to the Madison River valley of central Montana, all while navigating grief after a devastating tragedy.

Per a synopsis, The Madison is “a profound love story channeled through a deeply personal family drama about resilience and transformation.” The story of the Clyburn family is told “across two distinct worlds — the beautiful landscape of Montana and the vibrant energy of Manhattan — as it examines the ties that bind families together." The Madison stars Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Adams, and more.

Director and executive producer Voros told Town & Country that she believed Sheridan wanted to "explore another part of that world visually" after working on Yellowstone.

"It’s a very different look. It’s a very different feel being down in the Madison River Valley,” Voros said. “It’s just a completely different language of nature in that space. And it was exciting to explore a different ecosystem.”

Elsewhere during his remarks at the show's premiere, Sheridan showed his appreciation for his wife, actress Nicole Muirbrook, as he thanked her for having "believed in me when no one else did, including myself."

He also described moving to New York in his 20s and having "a love-hate relationship" with the city. Still, "sometimes you have to leave a place to really know it and love it," Sheridan said of The Madison, which he called "a story of a family that has to leave it to learn to love it again."

The first three episodes of The Madison are available to stream on Paramount+. The following three will premiere on March 21.

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