Originally published on 3/12/25

Season 2 of 1923 is finally here, and Woman’s World has all of the exclusive scoops on things like Alexandra’s (Julia Schlaepfer) love story with Spencer Dutton (Brandon Sklenar), Zane Davis’s (Brian Geraghty) arrest and more. We also have details on what viewers can expect from fan-favorite character Teonna Rainwater (Aminah Nieves) and what newcomer Mamie Fossett (Jennifer Carpenter) will be up to in the Wild West this season. Read on for more. 

Aminah Nieves on Teonna Rainwater’s emotional journey 

In 1923 season 1, Nieves’ character, Teoona goes through a treacherous journey filled with things like racism, abuse and neglect. 

After being enrolled in a Catholic boarding school, Teoona finds herself being emotionally, physically and sexually abused by the nuns running it. She also learns that they are treating her so horribly in an attempt to rid Teoona of the Native American culture inside her, and she decides to get her revenge by killing Sister Mary (Jennifer Ehle) before escaping to find her people. 

It’s a truly hard-to-watch story that thankfully comes with Teoona being tearfully reunited with her father, Runs His Horse (Michael Spears). They then flee the state of Montana and head south to Wyoming. 

How ‘1923’ tackles Indigenous history

“Being Indigenous, I think it’s my duty as an artist to be consistent with where I stand as a person that demands a revolution and is kind of living in an abolitionist way, and to speak out on injustices around the world,” Nieves told Woman’s World. “As an artist, I believe that that’s what we’re meant to do, so to be able to share a part of true history that not a lot of people know about because it’s been so well kept away from them, is really important.”

Looking ahead into season 2 of the popular historical western, Nevies said that viewers can expect to “see a completely different side of Teoona for a little bit,” however she doesn’t “want to give too much away.” 

Jennifer Carpenter on playing Marshal Mamie Fossett

Unlike Nevies, Carpenter wasn’t in the first season of 1923, but that isn’t keeping her from sharing how much the show means to her, telling Woman’s World, “This was my eight-year-old dream coming true.” 

“It was completely realized in ways that were out of bounds with what I thought it could have been,” she continued. “Everything starts with the story, and you can sort of blur your vision and do something anyway and hope that you can make it better. But the bar was raised so high—as he [Taylor Sheridan] always does with the scripts—that you just wonder if you can serve it with everything you’ve got.”  

In the show, she will be playing an Oklahoma-based Marshal named Mamie Fossett, who is tasked with helping Father Renaud (Sebastian Roché) and Marshal Kent (Jamie McShane) find a missing Teoona. 

“I feel like it was the most welcoming group of masters that I’ve ever worked with, from top to bottom,” Carpenter said of the cast. “I felt like there was a shared sense of gratitude that existed when every person’s alarm clock went off in the morning, and with their last thoughts before they went to bed.” 

“It’s hard when you go dip out of your life for a certain amount of time and your other commitments, and you donate everything you have to a project. But I would have stayed and stayed. It was perfection, which makes it harder to move forward now.” 

Before joining the 1923 cast, Carpenter was best known for her roles in things like White Chicks (2004), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Dexter (2006 to 2013), Quarantine (2008) and Dragged Across Concrete (2018). 

Link to original: https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/celebrities/aminah-nieves-and-jennifer-carpenter-spill-on-1923-season-2