1923 star Julia Schlaepfer exclusively tells Life & Style she hopes a spinoff could be in the future featuring her character of Alexandra Dutton, as it appears season 2 of the Paramount+ series could be the last.

“I would love, I would play Alex for a million years if I could,” Julia, 29, says of the possibility for a spinoff featuring the British royal who married Brandon Sklenar‘s Spencer Dutton.

“Who knows what Taylor Sheridan has up his sleeve,” she adds about the show’s prolific creator and writer, who created two prequels — 1883 and 1923 — from present-day’s Yellowstone.

Season 1 of 1923 saw Spencer and Alexandra fall in love and marry after meeting on an African safari. Season 2 brings the characters back to the Dutton family ranch in Montana.

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“Season 1 we were in Africa in Malta, which was so incredible as an actor. We were filming with these animals in Africa, and so as Alex is seeing an elephant for the first time and can’t believe her eyes, that was what I was going through, which is so special to get to have. We were very lucky,” Julia said of the show’s location shooting.

“And then Malta, we had these big water tanks that we swam in for the swimming scenes, which was also so cool of an experience to get to have. And then we’ve spent a good amount of time in Montana and Texas. We’ve just been all over the place it’s just, it’s been an incredible experience,” she added.

Julia hopes that young people today are able to see parts of themselves in Alex’s character of the posh royal who changed her life by marrying the American rancher

“I think I understood Alex’s pressure that she felt to present as this perfect thing. I think a lot of young women feel that way growing up and a lot of young people in today’s world, there’s this kind of pressure to exude perfection,” the actress explains.

“And so that was something I kind of understood about her and I understood the desire to just like break free and just live spontaneously. And that was so exciting to me. It was a really fun journey and story arc for her that I think came pretty naturally to me,” Julia says of playing Alex. “And then once she was let loose in Africa with Spencer, it was so much fun to really let my impulses fly with her enjoying that time with him.

As for the Bellevue, Washington, native’s favorite moment of season 2, she can’t share “because it’s a big spoiler.” But Julia says being part of 1923′s primary crew was a bonding experience.

“Just working with the crew this season, they became like my family. We all just cared about Alex’s journey so much. And so, getting to work with them every day and we all really took care of each other was like the most special part of my experience hands down,” she gushes.

While Paramount + hasn’t officially confirmed if season 2 will be the last for 1923, Brandon, 34, hinted that it wasn’t meant to go past a second season.

“They haven’t confirmed if it’s stopping here at season two, but I knew before we left to shoot season one ultimately where this was going,” the It Ends With Us star told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Sunday, February 23. “[Taylor] kind of told me, not the specifics of what was going to happen, but he told me. I’ve always known to some degree how it was going to wrap up at the end of season two.”

However, Brandon added, “This story is going to continue one way or another, and I honestly don’t know. But there’s more Dutton story to be told for sure.”