Count me out.
The new Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch is off to a hot start, and it finds Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) reprising their roles, now in Texas, and it sounds like filming in Texas was quite an experience. During an appearance on the The Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly, who is a Fort Worth native (where they filmed a lot of Dutton Ranch), asked if they had any snake incidents, because Texas has so many rattlesnakes and other kinds of snakes
“In Fort Worth, look, I know because I lived there, and there are a lot of rattlesnakes there. People don’t realize how many snakes are there. So I imagine y’all had kind of a time with that.”
Hauser confirmed that they caught an insane number of rattlesnakes… and 3,400 snakes, to be exact, over the course of eight months:
“Eight months, 3,400 rattlesnakes we caught.”
I never in a million years would have guessed they caught that many in just eight months, but that sounds like my worst nightmare and luckily, it sounds like all of the cast managed to stay far away from them.
Reilly also explained that they have professional snake wranglers on set that go ahead of them when they filmed outside to make sure no one had any issues, and she says she would be running through fields in stilettos just praying they got them all:
“We have snake wranglers, like literally six of them on set at any point and I’m in these stiletto heels running through fields. And I’m just praying, like, please let them have gotten all the snakes in this vicinity. and they would just pick them up and put them somewhere far away from us.”
She’s a braver woman than I am, that’s for sure… and Hauser says that one of their night shoots actually go canceled because one of the snake wranglers found a den of 40 or 50 rattlesnakes where they were supposed to be shooting:
“Yeah, I don’t want to give it away, but there might be a train station this year… but that particular location we were at, we were actually gonna go film there at night and got turned away. Christina found, like, I don’t know, 40 or 50 rattlesnakes.”
That’s a heck no from me… I don’t think I could do it, honestly, even with the snake wranglers there, but it sounds like they did a great job at keeping everyone safe.
Hauser also talked about being raised on ranch in Oregon as a young boy, and he had a little pony named Cinnamon that he would ride around on and knew the sounds of the dinner bell his mom would ring when it was time to go home:
“Yeah, I was there for six years. I had a little pony I used to ride around on bareback. Cinnamon. Yeah, he was cool. I would go up into the mountains and then my mom would ring the dinner bell, and wherever I was, that little pony would turn and take me back to the house, drop it’s mane and I’d slide down because I was so small.”
When he was six years old, his family moved to Florida, and he “cried all the way across America”:
“Moved to Florida.. my mom said I cried all the way across America.”
And Clarkson had the perfect response:
“There a country song in there… Chris Stapleton would sing the s*** out of that.”
So true… better yet, Kelly and Chris should write and sing it together:
@kellyclarksonshow Lookout for snakes on #DuttonRanch! (literally 😳) #KellyClarkson ♬ original sound – Kelly Clarkson Show
The fill interview is available to watch below.
