1923 star Julia Schlaepfer on Alexs horrible, heartbreaking death: Im still grieving her

Warning: spoilers ahead for the “1923” Season 2 finale, now streaming on Paramount+.It ended with a tragedy. During the Season 2 finale of the “Yellowstone” prequel series “1923,” (out Sunday, April 6), Spencer Dutton’s (Brandon Sklenar) wife, Alexandra “Alex” Dutton, (Julia Schlaepfer), shockingly died. “It’s horrible, it’s heartbreaking.

It’s really tragic,” Schlaepfer, 30, exclusively told The Post. “I know some people might be upset with that ending, I completely understand it,” she went on.“It’s such a bittersweet thing, because I love her so much, and I understand why it happened the way it happened.

But I’m still grieving her … I’m big-time still grieving Alex.”On “1923,” Alex had just reunited with Spencer after spending most of the season apart.She had also given birth to their son, but she refused to get her frost-bitten limbs amputated – knowingly setting herself up for death, as she prioritized her son over herself.

Spencer held her through her final moments as Jacob (Harrison Ford) and Cara (Helen Mirren) helplessly watched from the hospital hallway. Schlaepfer said that she found out Alex would die a few months before filming began on Season 2. “I was told by [creator Taylor Sheridan] sending me the scripts and being like, ‘call me when you’re done.’ I had no idea what was coming.” But, the actress said that she “had a feeling.” She recalled, “I would say to Taylor all the time, ‘Alex is gonna die, isn’t she?’ And he’d be like, ‘I don’t know yet, I haven’t decided.’ I just had this sixth sense.

Not that I wanted it, but I just think … you watch enough Taylor Sheridan, and you know something’s coming.”After reading Alex’s death scene in the script, Schlaepfer said, “I wept.And, I just got ready to take on her battle … It was such an honor, and it was the greatest gift of my life truly as an actor and as a person.

I loved playing her, and telling tha...