00:00This isn't Yellowstone. This is a new beginning.
00:02There was more story for the audience, and there was an appetite, there was a want for it.
00:06And I feel very lucky that we get to come back to them in this new iteration.
00:15When we're in character and we're on set, there's such a level of concentration and we're always...
00:22It's intense.
00:23Yeah, and we've got a really big job to do.
00:28Especially this year.
00:29Yeah, we both care a lot. I very rarely get to just hang out and just be together.
00:37We're both very different from our characters.
00:40And the level of, I would say, comfortability, I feel, with Cole.
00:45We know each other so well. We've been working together for almost ten years.
00:51We've gone on such a journey together that today, we haven't seen each other since we wrapped.
00:55Yeah.
00:56So it's just nice.
01:01I just love...
01:03I loved Cole as an actor. Like, before I knew him, I loved him.
01:06And Taylor put us together. There was such a history of Beth and Rip and what they meant to each
01:13other.
01:13And she was pretty awful to him at the beginning.
01:18I actually thought it was funny.
01:20I thought I made it clear.
01:23This...
01:24It was never exclusive.
01:26I just thought the relationship is so bizarre.
01:29And I think Taylor did such a great job.
01:33It's beautiful.
01:33Yeah, it's like, to me, he took such a great risk with the characters and starting them the way that
01:38he did,
01:39that it gave room for Kelly and I, as actors and actresses, to be able to take even more risks
01:47with them and play.
01:48Yeah.
01:49And that's the kind of thing that Taylor does as a writer, is that he gives you this freedom, whether
01:55you know it or not,
01:56to actually really, you know, be creative, I guess, and try new things.
02:02And our relationship, you know, the Beth-Rip relationship, it's so much different than any other relationship I've ever had
02:08on camera.
02:09Mm-hmm, me too.
02:10So, it's like, it's hot, it's cold, it's beautiful, it's angry, it's passionate, it's...
02:16I mean, what else?
02:17Yeah, I mean, I remember I love you, but f*** you. Do you remember that?
02:21Yeah, yeah.
02:21I love you.
02:22I see you at the house.
02:25Oh, f*** you.
02:26All right, right, ma'am.
02:27The chemistry of the characters and that they loved each other since they were 15 years old.
02:30And when they're hurting, too, they're there for each other, which is so beautiful.
02:33Mm-hmm.
02:34I can tell when she's not doing well. She can tell when I'm hurting.
02:37You know, so there's that really beautiful...
02:38That continues in this show.
02:40Yeah.
02:40We really protect each other.
02:41Exactly, and I think, so you have that passion and anger and, but also extreme love for each other, that
02:47just,
02:48it's like they've been together for more than, you know, their lifetime, maybe even lifetime before that.
02:54That's right, that's right.
02:56Which is, you know, they're meant for each other, and they know that. And that's such a powerful thing to
03:00play.
03:01We didn't have much Beth. We're poor, but it's yours. And so am I.
03:08It's the most important thing about the show for me was how Beth and Rip were going to be together.
03:14Yeah.
03:14We didn't want to cheapen that. We had carved out, Taylor had carved out such an incredible love match and
03:20love story.
03:21Yeah.
03:22And to continue that was very, very, very important to me. We're not trying to reinvent anything here.
03:30We're just trying to take it on into the future.
03:33I'll tell you, the grass here is good. About as good as I've ever seen.
03:38Cowboys are the only people on Earth to get excited about grass.
03:42It's very rare that you have characters that we've poured so much of ourselves into them.
03:46We really love them, and it's an honor to play them, honestly, and it's an honor to be in a
03:51show that was so loved, and these characters were so loved.
03:54Yeah.
03:55So you could end it where it ended with Yellowstone, and that's what I think we're trying to say is
04:00that it did end.
04:01Yeah.
04:01We're not trying to continue something.
04:03Yeah.
04:03I knew, as long as we weren't repeating, and we weren't trying to move on with something new, that I,
04:11I, there was more for me to find in the character.
04:14Yeah.
04:14And for us, there was more story for the audience, and there was an appetite, there was a want for
04:18it.
04:19And, um, I feel very, very lucky that we get to come back to them in this new iteration.
04:24This life here is gonna work, isn't it?
04:26We'll make it work.
04:27I didn't obviously expect Texas. I thought we would be in Montana.
04:31Um, but I think for a lot of reasons it was the right thing to do is to pull us
04:36out of our comfort zone and put us in a place where we had to actually grow up in, you
04:41know, and figure out stuff together.
04:44We finished filming in, I think September last year, and then we started up again in June or July.
04:51Yeah.
04:52Um, and then we were just talking about it all the time, so it didn't really feel like a big
04:57break to sort of really let the land settle a little bit in themselves and really figure out.
05:03But we were, you know, the train was going and we had to be on it, and the show was
05:09being written as we were making it, pretty much.
05:12So we were really in it, if you know what I mean.
05:16We weren't sort of, we were feeling it and doing it as we were doing it rather than it sort
05:20of having ten scripts in front of us like we did with Taylor's, you know, and sort of this was
05:26a much more sort of, um, raw thing.
05:29A legacy is a beautiful thing, but only if it survives.
05:34When Kelly and I started getting into the scripts, you know, we find out things as the audience kind of
05:40finds out stuff.
05:41And sometimes the audience even knows more than we do.
05:44So it was very, you know, important for us as characters to, to go there thinking, hey, we're going to
05:50start over.
05:50We have our son, you know, we're going to start, you know, a small little, you know, ranching, a farm
05:57to table, and we're going to just start, you know, I guess walking the dog when it comes to our
06:02life.
06:02And then things start to, you know, obviously progress and happen.
06:07So, um, they are survivors at the end of the day.
06:10I mean, we've seen them survive so much.
06:12I mean, we know what these two characters are made of.
06:15So to start them at the beginning of something means that we've got a journey, right?
06:20We can't start them out on top of it.
06:23Yeah.
06:24We have to begin them maybe getting the lay of the land externally and in, you know, in their emotional
06:33world.
06:34There's something about Beth and Rip who were always such warriors, hoping that they may not have to be warriors.
06:41They're always going to protect each other.
06:42They were protecting a place and a dream of John Dutton for six seasons.
06:47Now that cycle, that burden is over.
06:53It's dead.
06:54And so who are they together now?
06:57And there was always, like, clues in the scripts of Yellowstone of what they would talk about.
07:04You know, I remember in episode, in season five, Rip takes Beth for a ride.
07:09And there's a meadow and she says a whiskey, a meadow and you.
07:14Yeah.
07:15I don't need anything else.
07:19Cigarettes, whiskey, a meadow and you.
07:23Yeah.
07:23We've lived with these characters.
07:25Yeah.
07:25It doesn't mean we know everything about them, but there was a sort of handing over the reins to us
07:31to a certain extent, which lends us to find our own voice and opinion about these characters and the future
07:40of them and where they are now.
07:41So we feel there is a responsibility to honoring them and bringing them forward.
07:49And Cole and I both talk about the fans of the show a lot.
07:54You know, there's expectations.
07:56We don't necessarily want to repeat things.
07:58There's growth with their relationship.
08:00They're now, you know, Finn, who plays Carter, our son now.
08:05They take on this mantle of parenting.
08:08Like, they really take that on after the last season of Yellowstone, which was very important to both of us,
08:13that they are a family.
08:15So we were able to be, we were able to guide to a certain extent.
08:20I mean, we're not the writers, but we got to, we certainly got to have an opinion, which is wonderful.
08:27And I'm very grateful that we did, but I'm also, you know, sometimes you're like, am I right?
08:33Is that wrong?
08:34Like, you know, a creative, creativity means that you have to commit to, to something.
08:39Yeah.
08:40Um, so we, there's moments where you're unsure, but we used each other.
08:44We did.
08:45You know, and I think Beth and Rip are unsure.
08:47Yeah, exactly.
08:48That's what I kept meaning to is like this.
08:50They've got, they have had everything taken away from them twice.
08:53Well, actually more times than that in their, in their emotional world.
08:56Yeah.
08:57Um, in their lives, both of them have lost a lot, but the Yellowstone is gone.
09:01Beth is without her father.
09:02The bunkhouse is gone.
09:04I mean.
09:05Everything Beth fought for, everything you, you're living.
09:09Like they were literally like, we are now in, not in Montana, in Texas, but, um, everything
09:14is new.
09:15It's like going to the moon for us.
09:17Yeah.
09:17I mean, there's characters.
09:18Yeah.
09:19We don't know anybody.
09:20You know, it's a new beginning for, I mean, from literally the ashes.
09:23They are outsiders.
09:25Yeah.
09:25Um, and I think seeing Beth and Rip so intrinsic and part of the, the, the world of the Yellowstone
09:32and Montana and just that landscape, protecting that land, we knew them well.
09:38And they were sort of the top dogs.
09:40Yeah.
09:40It's for shadowing now.
09:42Now, now they're the strangers.
09:44Yeah.
09:44But now they just want to live quietly and be left alone.
09:48Yeah.
09:53Yeah.
09:54Yeah.
09:54Being able to work with someone like Kelly for almost 10 years.
09:59I mean, we've like gone through a lot together on screen, especially, um, obviously support
10:07each other off, but you know, there's, there's times on screen where, you know, it's raw and,
10:13and real and it feels passionate and, you know, full of fire.
10:19And, and so I think as an actor over the years, it's been like just this wonderful journey of
10:25like being able to discover characters together, be able to like try things out together.
10:31And so I think it just, as, as an artist for me, it's been great to be able to like
10:36learn
10:37from you, teach you a little bit, you know, push and pull and like give each other this
10:43kind of, uh, confidence to, to do anything together.
10:47So I think as an actor, I think that's been the most kind of rewarding, I would say thing
10:54that I've been able to do is have a partner for 10 years to play with.
10:59I feel the same way. We're so blessed with these beautifully drawn characters that people want to watch.
11:06So it's changed my life immensely.
11:10And I, I feel there are just some roles that, you know, that are, they are slightly career defining
11:16and they are life defining.
11:18And, um, you know, Taylor Sheridan giving me the role of Beth Dutton changed, changed my career
11:25and changed my life and I'm so grateful for it.
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