“Sad dynamite”… emphasis on the dynamite.
The highly-anticipated Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch is set to premiere very soon on May 15th. Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) will reprise their roles and return to the screens of fans all over the world, and this new show has been described as “Yellowstone Season 6.”
We’ll get a sense of where it’s all going when it premieres later this week, but in the lead up the first episode, Kelly and Cole, who play a couple on-screen, have been doing a ton of press to promote the series, but of course, it’s not their first rodeo. They’ve been working closely together for over a decade now, and they’ve been a fan-favorite couple for years, and fans will get to see how they handle a big move from Montana to Texas as this new series gets started.
Beth is a pretty polarizing character, you either love or hate her for the most part, but throughout the original series, we see Beth evolve a lot and get more insight into why she is the way she is. She’s a bad***, pretty dang ruthless most of the time, but at the end of the day, there’s a sad little girl inside of her that struggles a lot on a daily bases.
But Kelly explained during a recent interview that Sheridan told her not to show “any vulnerability” early in the series, describing her as “sad dynamite,” a “viper and a “black widow spider”:
“Smoke a lot of cigarettes, drive really fast… Taylor Sheridan, he called her ‘sad dynamite.’ There’s such sadness in her, but also a viper. He called her a black widow spider, but it was just all of these things. But I did want to find the little girl…
I would have notebooks filled, he was very specific about who she was and who she wasn’t. He just said that first season, ‘Any ounce of vulnerability that you want to think that you should show the audience do not. That has been buried in her, and there will be a time to discover this later, but not right now.'”
She certainly did an incredible job portraying Beth in that way, and Hauser added that, eventually fans do get to see the more vulnerable side of both of them as they fall deeply in love, evolve as people, and eventually get married:
“We did that, eventually, the two of us, which was really beautiful. Because I see her as that little girl, because we’ve known each other for so long. It was amazing when you finally kind of let the floodgates open for both of the characters to kind of fall in love.”
It was season two of Yellowstone that something shifted and fans very much got a deeper feel for their relationship, and they wanted to make sure they protected that and kept it very real so it didn’t become “silly”:
“I think we locked in, it’s like we were guardians of something quite special, and we needed to look after and look after one another and keep it real. You know, you can’t lean into the caricature of it otherwise you become becomes a bit silly. So we had to really just always keep it grounded and try and just make it as just truthful and just keep it real between us.”
It’s going to be very interesting to see how they continue to evolve in this new series, and luckily, we won’t have to wait too much longer to see how it plays out when the first two episodes air this Friday, May 15th on the Paramount Network at 8 p.m. ET:
@virginradiouk Kelly Reilly opens up about building Beth Dutton and the love story between her and Rip Wheeler 🎭♥️ #virginradiouk #yellowstone ♬ original sound – Virgin Radio UK
You can check out the trailer here:
