The highly anticipated Yellowstone prequel, 1883, hits Paramount+ on December 19, and stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are on the promotional track to get people excited about this new Dutton chapter. In a new joint interview with PEOPLE, the superstar couple opened up about 25 years of marriage and their new acting project. However, people couldn’t help but focus on how Hill looked during the cover shoot. As Hill rocked her natural curly brown hair, fans who know her best as a blonde were shocked at how different she looked.
“Find Faith…because it can’t be her,” one fan wrote. “It’s not Faith. There’s no way,” wrote another. “I didn’t even recognize this couple for a second,” someone else commented on Instagram. “It doesn’t look like Faith Hill at all,” another joked. Others were torn about whether the photos had been edited too much or if Hill had undergone plastic surgery.
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1883 is the first Yellowstone spin-off and stars McGraw as James Dutton and Hill as his wife, Margaret Dutton. The show was created by Taylor Sheridan, the Oscar-nominated writer behind Against all odds and co-creator of Yellowstone. It follows the Dutton family’s move from Texas as they seek success in Montana. Since a long time Yellowstone viewers know, they had to succeed for John to oversee one of the largest ranches in the United States. But how did Yellowstone/Dutton Ranch get so big? That’s what 1883 will help explain.
The series also stars Isabel May as Elsa, the Duttons’ daughter, and Audie Rick as the younger version of John’s father, John Dutton Sr. (Dabney Coleman played the role in the Yellowstone Season 2 episode “Sins of the Father”.) Sam Elliott plays Shea Brennan, a Civil War veteran and wagon master who drives the Duttons and other families around Montana. Billy Bob Thornton also has a key role as U.S. Marshal Jim Courtright. The first episode of 1883 hits Paramount+ on Sunday, December 19.