Faith Hill recalls why she almost swore off acting

Faith Hill was thrust back into the spotlight with her role on 1883, but there was a time when she almost swore off acting.

Faith and her husband, Tim McGraw, have earned critical acclaim for their portrayal of Margaret and James Dutton on the series that serves as the prequel to Yellowstone. Prior to that, Faith had a lead role in the 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives, starring alongside Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close and Matthew Broderick.

Though she praises the “amazing” cast, Faith tells Kelly Clarkson that it “wasn’t the best experience” — her main gripe being the long wait times in between takes. “I said, ‘I will never ever do another movie,” Faith recalls on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “It took so long. The waiting for me, I cannot. I have to be busy doing stuff.”

But the singer did find her way back in front of the camera with 1883. She says that she and her husband were so captured by the script that they had to be a part of it.

“For the script to have been so incredibly well-written, I honestly had never read anything like it,” she raves. “So we just made the decision to do it.”

1883 premiered on Paramount+ in December.