Actress Kelly Reilly has revealed she still gets surprised by some of Beth Dutton’s storylines on Yellowstone even after five years playing the tough as nails businesswoman.
Yellowstone’s Beth Dutton actress Kelly Reilly has said there “are still things that I read and I didn’t expect” when she gets her scripts for the show.
After five years playing the feisty chain smoking, hard drinking, only daughter of Kevin Costner’s irascible rancher-turned-Montana Governor John Dutton the British born star admitted that show creator and writer Taylor Sheridan can still surprise her.
She made the revelation in a special extra featurette clip that appears on the Blu-ray and DVD release of the first part of Yellowstone’s fifth season.
“I mean, I have my hopes and thoughts for the character,” she reflected.
“Also, as I’ve played her for over five years now, I feel like I know her so well, but I’m still learning,” she continued.
“There are still things that I read and I didn’t expect, or sometimes I wish for something else for her, but that’s the same as the audience,” she explained.
“We’re all sort of beholden to the vision of the storyteller and we serve the story,” she continued. “Who knows what’s going to happen? I find that exciting as an actor.”
Much of Beth’s storyline has involved her intense romance with romantic relationship with Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) who is Beth’s father’s violent right-hand man.
Over the past five seasons she has been violently assaulted by business rivals and the victim of a parcel bomb.
She has also struggled with the fact that she had a hysterectomy as a teenager, for which she blames her adopted brother Jamie (Wes Bentley).
She landed in jail after a vicious bar fight and found herself battered and bruised after fisticuffs with her father’s lover Summer Higgins (Piper Perabo).
The drama-packed midseason cliffhanger gave no indication that things would improve for her, but fans will have to wait a while longer to find out.
The second part of Yellowstone’s fifth season, which is the final one, was originally scheduled for a November release.
However, this now looks “highly unlikely”, according to the The Hollywood Reporter due to the ongoing writer’s strike.
Creator and writer Sheridan has stopped writing in support of the strike the efforts and it is unknown when he will be able to resume.
However, he has hinted that they will produce more than the expected six episodes telling the publication. “If I think it takes ten episodes to wrap it up, they’ll give me ten. It’ll be as long as it needs to be.”
