AMC’s ‘The Son’ star Elizabeth Frances talks all things Prairie Flower and what to expect from the final season of the show
AMC’s Western drama ‘The Son’ will be taking its final bow after its second season, which will begin airing on April 27th. Based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Philipp Meyer, ‘The Son’ tells the story of America’s birth through the violent rise and fall of one Texas oil empire. One of the most fascinating characters in the series is that of Prairie Flower, an independent and strong-willed Native American woman who enjoyed her last years of sexual freedom before having to marry. Played by Elizabeth Frances, not only is Prairie Flower a feminist icon in the eyes of TV viewers but she plays one of the most challenging roles on television. MEA WorldWide (MEAWW) sat down with Francis who first explained how she landed the role and her surprise when she realized all that the role entailed.
“The way I landed the role is that I read the material the day before and I thought, wow! this is great material, it’s really deep…then I realized as I was reading it, oh my God…none of this is in English. So I kind of panicked and called some friends who were in the native community and a lot of other communities I am a part of, and the next day I came in and auditioned in Spanish, Comanche and English and did all of these pages in those languages.”
