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Speaker 1: Hey y'all, once again, welcome back to the Official Yellowstone

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Speaker 1: Podcast presented by Win Las Vegas. It's Jefferson White here.

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Speaker 1: I am really excited about this next episode. As some

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Speaker 1: of you might know, we had a bunch of the

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Speaker 1: cast here to record.

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Speaker 2: A couple weeks ago. The Win hosted us all.

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Speaker 1: And organized an incredible dinner at their new supper club, Delilah.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I had ever even been to a

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Speaker 1: supper club before, and now I call every restaurant I

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Speaker 1: go to a supper club. It was spectacular. We had

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Speaker 1: Kelly Riley and Jen Landing there for the dinner. Kelsey

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Speaker 1: couldn't join us unfortunately, because she's the busiest woman in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: She was filming out of state. But we have them

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Speaker 1: all here with us now on this podcast, digging into

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Speaker 1: their work on Yellowstone. How all of these characters play

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Speaker 1: vastly different roles and really helped to define the tone

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Speaker 1: of the show. I feel incredibly lucky today to be

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Speaker 1: joined in the studio by Kelly Riley. You know Kelly

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Speaker 1: Riley for her many incredible performances in films and television,

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Speaker 1: but most recently as Beth Dunton on Yellowstone. Kelly, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being here.

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Speaker 3: Pleasure you're doing, You're killing it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You've you've really I would say

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Speaker 1: that my entire career I've benefited immensely from low expectations.

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Speaker 1: I always everybody always expects me to be bad at stuff,

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Speaker 1: and that's a great place to start from. Right only

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Speaker 1: ways up, only ways up, exactly. So let's just assume

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Speaker 1: that I'm going to be terrible at this and we'll

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Speaker 1: go from there.

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Speaker 3: So just pleasantly surprised.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, he didn't mess up that bad.

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Speaker 1: Every time I get on a horse, it's been four

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Speaker 1: years now, and still every time I get on a horse,

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Speaker 1: everybody expects me to fuck up, so the bar.

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Speaker 2: Is very low. Will you just for for folks who've

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Speaker 1: Three yellostone, Will you just talked briefly about your life

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Speaker 1: before Yellowstone, your career before Yellowstone, everything up until we

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Speaker 1: got to know you was Beth Dunton.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, well.

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Speaker 4: That's a yeah.

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Speaker 2: You can go as long or as short as you

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Speaker 5: Well, obviously I'm not American, so I grew up in

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Speaker 5: South London, England. I left school at sixteen, but I

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Speaker 5: had two wonderful drama teachers who took me to theater

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Speaker 3: And then before I knew.

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Speaker 5: It, I, by the grace of God, I have no

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Speaker 3: I became an actor. And that was twenty something years ago.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so my first my career started in the theater

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Speaker 5: cut my teeth and learned from the greatest actors. All

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Speaker 5: And also I was playing all these tragic heroines, you know,

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Speaker 3: So I was like Okay, I think there's another.

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Speaker 5: that sort of began my career in TV and film.

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Speaker 5: But I never ever ever imagined. And that's the joy

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Speaker 3: We are gypsies in the best sense of the word.

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Speaker 5: And it's been such an honor to sort of land

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Speaker 5: it's been my favorite, one of my favorite jobs I've

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Speaker 1: That was fantastic, Thank you so much. One of the

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Speaker 1: very first things you mentioned when you talked about your

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Speaker 1: That's much closer to the theater model. There's a writer

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Speaker 5: Well, when I first read the pilot for episode one,

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Speaker 5: it's okay. But there are some that literally take hold

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Speaker 5: about being an acting job. It's there is some sort

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Speaker 5: this character. I don't know why, but I felt that

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Speaker 5: with Beth. I'd never I had never read a character

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Speaker 5: in equal measure when I first read her some of

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Speaker 5: write a woman that I a deeply flawed woman who

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Speaker 5: he wrote as a hero.

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Speaker 1: way that Taylor wrote Beth a woman. Will you talk

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Speaker 3: A little Beth was raised by a men.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, it's very common for women to be on

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Speaker 5: So it wasn't an abstract world. What's that like, only

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Speaker 3: Not specifically role models.

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Speaker 5: But there's something about the character that we can see empowered,

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Speaker 5: Was more curious about more just the more complex character.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't about had to be a role model or a

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Speaker 5: there's things to admire about Beth. There's also things that

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Speaker 5: he's a strong male character. I don't think there's they

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Speaker 1: And part of what you identified there is these contradictions, right,

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Speaker 1: Like the first thing you said is she she's hurt,

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Speaker 5: Well, Taylor doesn't let me hold back. If I tried

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Speaker 1: And then also, you know, it's also big and small.

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Speaker 1: You talked about pushing it to the extreme, being sort

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Speaker 1: Doesn't do much small, she goes. She goes as hard

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Speaker 1: to get what she wants. And that, for me, that's

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Speaker 1: what characterizes your performance is your ability to, you know,

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Speaker 2: The gamut and explore that entire spectrum.

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Speaker 5: So we don't know, we do a season of a show,

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Speaker 5: and I've done seasons of the show before and they've

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Speaker 5: never not got picked up or whatever. But now we've

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Speaker 5: been playing these characters for four years, they become part

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Speaker 5: I don't know about you. Do you feel like that

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Speaker 5: with Jimmy? Do you feel like a loyalty to him,

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Speaker 1: And over time, more and more, you know, over time,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I find more and more ways as

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Speaker 1: because because looking at you, speaking to you, obviously you

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Speaker 1: But over time, I think those two things that are

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Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, she's really I mean, in a lot

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Speaker 2: You had to.

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Speaker 5: I think everyone just thought I was, like, you know,

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Speaker 5: close to nature, and you know, you wake up it.

444
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Speaker 5: I remember being set one day and they're like, oh,

445
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Speaker 5: did you hear about the grizzly that was like seen

446
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 5: on set yesterday.

447
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,360
Speaker 2: Col Houser, col Houser, his name's Cole Hauser.

448
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Speaker 5: And driving to work and seeing the bald eagles circling

449
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,719
Speaker 5: above you, like, that's that's pretty something.

450
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Speaker 2: It really is.

451
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, an incredible gift, and I feel incredibly grateful to

452
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Speaker 1: have had the opportunity to have this conversation with you.

453
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Speaker 2: So thank you so so so much.

454
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Speaker 3: It's nice to meet you.

455
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jefferson White, I played Jimmy.

456
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Speaker 2: I'm the don't worry about it.

457
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Speaker 1: I'm the dumb guy.

458
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:00,880
Speaker 3: Brooklyn.

459
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 2: Then, yeah, hey, don't worry about it.

460
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: I'm the dumb guy. I play the fucking dumb guy.

461
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 1: I always I alway, you know, I think there's no

462
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 1: way to imagine Jimmy and Beth meeting that would leave,

463
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, where Jimmy would walk away feeling Okay.

464
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I'm sorry.

465
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: I'm kind of grateful they've never bumped into each other,

466
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: because I don't think that goes well for Jimmy.

467
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to that moment.

468
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Speaker 1: I come back, I come back from the six as

469
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 1: I'm finally a confident to strong cowboy in Beth just

470
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: shreds me with a line, thank you again, so so

471
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: so much for being here.

472
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 2: It's it's such a treat.

473
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Speaker 3: Thank you.

474
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Speaker 2: Wow.

475
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 1: Kelly is an incredible actor, but she's also just obviously

476
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: a very genuine good person. We're gonna take a breath here,

477
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,360
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we're going to dive right

478
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Speaker 1: in with my dear friend Jen Landon, who plays Teeter.

479
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Speaker 2: Folks.

480
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Speaker 1: I feel incredibly lucky today to have Jen landed in

481
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Speaker 1: the studio. Jin Landen plays Teeter on Yellowstone. Jen's an

482
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 1: incredible actor, an incredible cowboy. I've been learning alongside Jen

483
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: for years now. Jen, thank you so so much for

484
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: being here.

485
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 4: I'm so happy to be here. Jeff, it's really a thrill.

486
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Speaker 1: Could you just talk a little longer about how excited

487
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: you want to me?

488
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Speaker 4: This is well. I mean, I feel like we've been

489
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 4: together for a while now because we're in Texas working

490
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 4: on this cutting event.

491
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Speaker 1: So prior to coming into the wind to record this podcast.

492
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: Jen and I have been staying together at a B

493
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Speaker 1: and B in Weatherford, Texas, Yeah, preparing for a celebrity

494
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: charity cutting event, Cutting is Up.

495
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Speaker 2: Could you describe cutting for us a little bit?

496
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Speaker 4: I mean yes, I wanted to kind of start with

497
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Speaker 4: just like sharing an Airbnb being sort of the event

498
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 4: because not only have I never lived with you before,

499
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 4: I haven't lived with anyone in about twenty five years.

500
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Speaker 4: So I feel like getting to see our the way

501
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 4: we like. We're both very courteous and trying not to

502
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 4: infringe on the other person, but also we're both very

503
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 4: we're very slightly messy.

504
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would describe it as both as curious, as

505
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 1: a courteous but message. Yeah, courteous but MESSI I have

506
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 1: three roommates all the time. Yeah, I live in New

507
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: York City, so for me, this is many fewer people

508
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: than I usually live with.

509
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Speaker 7: Jen.

510
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Speaker 1: Just for the folks at home, will you just take

511
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Speaker 1: a second to describe your life prior to Yellowstone. So

512
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: everything that happened before folks out there got to know

513
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: you was teeter on Yellowstone.

514
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 4: There was nothing. It was just sort of like the

515
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 4: pre Big Bang moment. Are you serious?

516
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: Is this a serious Yeah, as you could take as

517
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: long as you want to or as short as you

518
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Speaker 1: want to.

519
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 4: Gosh, prior to Yellowstone, I was having a lot less

520
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:52,719
Speaker 4: fun though I was still acting. I started out in theater.

521
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 4: I was on a soap for many, many, many years

522
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 4: and said many, many, many words, and then hopped around

523
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 4: on some shows, and that's it. I have no life

524
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 4: outside of work, which is what you can gather from

525
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 4: that answer, and part.

526
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Speaker 1: Of it as you describe your background, I guess part

527
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Speaker 1: of what occurs to me is that you have You've

528
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: lived a lot of lives in a short time, and

529
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: you've learned a lot of different sort of crafts and

530
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: skills in a short time, because, especially as an actor,

531
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Speaker 1: you have a very varied and diverse skill set as

532
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 1: an actor, So you started out in theater, Yeah, you

533
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: worked in daytime. Yeah, you've worked in very very cool

534
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: television and movies. Yeah.

535
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Speaker 4: I was an associate artistic director of an experimental theater

536
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 4: company for a while. We were a movement based company

537
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 4: that worked often with classical texts. I definitely have that

538
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 4: side of me, I feel like, as do you.

539
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 7: Yeah.

540
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we both we both share diverse backgrounds as actors,

541
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: and then we both landed thankfully on Yellowstone and we're

542
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: tossed in this world that we didn't have as much

543
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 1: experience with. So for both of us, from the beginning,

544
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: we've been working very hard to come to understand this world,

545
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: to develop the skills that it takes to survive in

546
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: this world. So will you talk a little bit about

547
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: the process of getting up on a horse of stepping

548
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: into teeter?

549
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, when I auditioned for the show,

550
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 4: they had reached out to my team and asked if

551
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 4: I had horse riding experience, and I informed them my

552
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 4: team that I had ridden horses as a child, but

553
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 4: not since then, and they told casting that I was

554
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 4: a professional horseback writer. So coming in I actually had

555
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 4: a lot of horse fear because I did grow up

556
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 4: with horses and my mom had a really, really bad

557
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 4: fall and was dragged around an arena with her foot

558
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 4: stuck in a stirrup and she really shouldn't have survived that,

559
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 4: and I was still quite young, but that was the

560
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 4: end of horse back riding, so I didn't get to

561
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 4: kind of reclaim that until I joined the show. So

562
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Speaker 4: it was really it was really healing on one level,

563
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Speaker 4: and then the other thing is I feel like I

564
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 4: feel like this is how surfers must feel when they

565
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 4: engage with a natural force like the wave, which is

566
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Speaker 4: I do feel like the difference between a good day

567
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 4: and a great day sometimes is getting on a horse.

568
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 4: That sort of being in that rhythm, which is this

569
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Speaker 4: natural rhythm of that animal, reminds me of the animal

570
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 4: that I am, and the natural rhythm that my body

571
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 4: would like to be in that I rarely allow it

572
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Speaker 4: to be in.

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Speaker 1: You've also a minute ago you described, you know, feeling

574
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Speaker 1: some fear because of a very difficult experience you had

575
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Speaker 1: at a young age with horses. But it's interesting because

576
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,959
Speaker 1: I think of Teeter the character as being in some

577
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: ways characterized by a fearlessness or an incredible sort of

578
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: even if she is afraid, an incredible courage to run

579
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Speaker 1: at whatever scares her.

580
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's I do feel like Teeter's courage gives me courage.

581
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 4: That's something that we all experience as actors. Playing different parts,

582
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 4: we sort of take on their mental state. But also

583
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 4: as an actor, we really get a false sense of confidence.

584
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 4: I'm like, for example, I'm under the impression that I'm

585
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 4: an incredibly good fighter who can beat up an entire

586
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 4: biker gang because j Rod choreographed a fight in which

587
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 4: I win. But I cannot do that, but I think

588
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 4: I can.

589
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: And what an incredible gift I guess to get to

590
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Speaker 1: sort of I don't know how you think of it,

591
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: but put on a mask or sort of step into

592
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: the boots of character who has a different set of skills,

593
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: a different set of limitations, who has it has a

594
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: very different sort of background than you.

595
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, very much.

596
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk a.

597
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Speaker 1: Little bit about the experience of coming in because Teeter,

598
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: you and Teter are very different in a lot of ways.

599
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: Or you know, Teeter is a certain part of you.

600
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 2: You know, Teter is a.

601
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 4: Kind of have a very different mask.

602
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

603
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you have the same primal core and you

604
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: both express it in different ways. Talk to me about

605
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: Teter comes into the bunk house as a woman surrounded

606
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: by men and is the most aggressive sort of character

607
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: in that environment. Teeter hits on everyone. Teter's sort of

608
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: going after everyone. Talk to me about that experience.

609
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to take away from the

610
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 4: fact that she does zero in on Colby pretty quickly, though. Yeah,

611
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 4: she's interested in all things. You know, Am I allowed

612
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 4: to cuss on here?

613
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?

614
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 4: I mean it's like, you know, does she want to

615
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 4: you know, eat it or does she want to fuck it?

616
00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 4: Or does she need some sleep?

617
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Speaker 7: You know?

618
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 4: But I had talked to Taylor, and you know, it's

619
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 4: like she's a you know, not that I don't want

620
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 4: to open up a whole bag of worms, but she

621
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 4: is has a she's a dude in the traditional idea

622
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 4: of what that is, right, and that is something that

623
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 4: I'm actually really comfortable with, uh kind of leaning into

624
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 4: that more aggressive sort of archetype in some way.

625
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's fascinating because Beth, you know, you talk

626
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: about traditionally masculine qualities or traditionally feminine qualities, right, Beth

627
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: is also an incredibly aggressive sort of forward attack mode aggressor,

628
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: and Teeter is in some ways too.

629
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Speaker 2: But then their tactics are so different.

630
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: Their tactics diverge sort of from they so much.

631
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 4: I yeah, Beth is like, you know, I've you and

632
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 4: I had been talking a little bit before the podcast

633
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 4: about Teeter being a strong character, and you know, we

634
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 4: were agreeing that Teeter is strong, a strong female, but

635
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 4: she's nowhere near as strong as Beth, you know, but

636
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 4: Beth is so for me watching it so iconically female

637
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 4: in this really wonderful way. You know that I as

638
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 4: a person really like watching as well, because it's very powerful,

639
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 4: but it's very feminine and again in this very traditional way. Yeah.

640
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, Beth sort of leverages her femininity as a as

641
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: a weapon. Yeah, she uses it as a weapon to

642
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: get what she wants from her enemies, and Teeter takes

643
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: a very different tactic. Teeter kind of leverages her masculinity

644
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,239
Speaker 1: or her like tradition as you said, you know, in

645
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: some ways she's a dude, and she like she'll punch

646
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: you in the face before she'll.

647
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, she's not talking it out. It's I don't

648
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 4: think that that has worked well for her in the past. No, though,

649
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 4: I've had a fantasy of a scene that's never been

650
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 4: written in which Teeter just launches into a monologue one

651
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 4: night around the poker table, and it's like maybe a

652
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 4: forty five second monologue, and she gets really emotional and

653
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 4: nobody knows what she's just revealed.

654
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: Because that's played as a joke throughout the show. There's

655
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: so many sort of funny moments of Teeter saying something

656
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: just utterly indecipherable, everybody being confused. Talk to me about that,

657
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: because you you know, as an actor, you're not just

658
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: saying something indecipherable. You're saying something. You're trying to communicate something.

659
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: So talk to me about the experience of Teeter's accent.

660
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, so's it's written. Taylor's wrote it phonetically, which was fantastic.

661
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 4: I remember when I saw the sides on first glance,

662
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 4: I was like, what.

663
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: So it's spelled out. The sounds are spelled.

664
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Speaker 4: The sounds are totally spelled out. And even though you know,

665
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 4: just when I like kind of did that first thing

666
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 4: where you're like, how long is this audition? You know,

667
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 4: it was like, one of these languages is not English?

668
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 3: I was.

669
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 4: I was tickled by the fact that she always made

670
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 4: sense to me. I always knew exactly what she was saying,

671
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 4: and that was not the case for a lot of

672
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 4: people who would read it, but that being able to

673
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 4: hold on to it being sounded out was so liberating

674
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 4: for me, and I I'm just amazed that, I mean,

675
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 4: Taylor writes at a clip. He can also write gibberish

676
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 4: or you know phonetic English at a clip. I mean

677
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 4: it was. It's sort of shocking how well he writes that.

678
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: Really remarkable, and it's so sort of different than your

679
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, folks at home. Folks at home

680
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: might just notice the difference between your, your natural speaking voice, yes,

681
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: and Teeter's very thick accent.

682
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 4: Yeah. People people are surprised by that. They're also surprised

683
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 4: when they somebody has been speaking to me for you know,

684
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 4: sometimes it's an hour and then they find out that

685
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 4: I'm Teeter because I don't visually register to them as Teeter.

686
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 4: And they then ask me how long it takes for

687
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 4: makeup to put the prosthetics on my face every morning,

688
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 4: and I have to inform them that that there are

689
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 4: no prosthetics on my face, that that is just my face.

690
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: And I think that speaks to how sort of transformative

691
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: that that that it is. It's a physical transformation in

692
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 1: some ways, but it's also there is such a sort

693
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: of powerful, as you described it, fairal energy that it

694
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: sort of transforms your presence.

695
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

696
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 4: I do move through the world slightly differently when I'm

697
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 4: when I'm in her skin. People very close to me

698
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,919
Speaker 4: know to sit some like it.

699
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: Some don't horses respond to it because I feel like

700
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: Teeter is an incredibly experienced rider.

701
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 4: I feel like when I take on Teeter's energy in

702
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 4: life on a horse, I get stuck in this weird

703
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 4: in between where I am trying to like, you know,

704
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 4: just be that like Dominatrix on that horse or like that,

705
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 4: like yeah, that dom on the horse that I feel

706
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 4: like Teeter is. But the horse is smart and is

707
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 4: picking up my bullshit, so then it just throws everything off.

708
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 4: The horse just gets anxious and grumpy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm

709
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 4: trying to work on soft receptivity on the horse. My

710
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 4: first experience wasn't on horse on the show was I

711
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 4: remember when I read I think it was episode three

712
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 4: or something for me or three h three.

713
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: Uh.

714
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 4: Teeter separates a charlet a white cow from a bunch

715
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 4: of black house and I, well, I'll be in a

716
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 4: big arena and a bunch of very trained black cows

717
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 4: will run by, and then there will be a big gap,

718
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 4: and I'll jump in front of a white cow and

719
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 4: stop it. And then I show up and there's like

720
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 4: a shoot, and there's just a bunch of sort of

721
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 4: anxious cows running back and forth, It's like, no, You're

722
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 4: going to just jump in front of one of those

723
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 4: and stop them for real. And I watched a lot

724
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 4: of Temple grand In videos and tried to bring my

725
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 4: best temple to work that day.

726
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: Part of the experience of filming Yellowstone is all of

727
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: us gathering in a small town in Montana. Yes, for

728
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: months at a time, away from our families, away from

729
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: our other communities. Yes. Will you talk a little bit

730
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: about what keeps you busy while we're out in Montana?

731
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: What keeps you saying? What sort of fills you up?

732
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: The experience of being out there authentically? You know, Yeah,

733
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: working on the ranch is a very sort of authentic experience,

734
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: and so is just living out in Montana.

735
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 2: What's that like for you?

736
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 4: I sort of thrive in that environment because Montana to

737
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 4: me feels like the most wild state in many ways

738
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 4: in a nature sense. And part of way, on the

739
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 4: flip side, I like New York City so much is

740
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 4: because New York is sort of wild as well, So

741
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 4: I think I'm drawn to that wildness. But getting in

742
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 4: that nature as much as possible is so grounding. And

743
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 4: then I felt like we did sort of a wonderful

744
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 4: job of creating kind of community, and we both we

745
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 4: all knew that it could get challenging at times, especially

746
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 4: with COVID, so we kind of had those group activities

747
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 4: and those movie nights, and I feel like we did

748
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 4: a really great job of creating a family there.

749
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not so different than living in a bunk house.

750
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: You know, we're out there, It's really not. They're kind

751
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: of in the middle of nowhere and where each other's

752
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: where each other's family, where each other's community. We're coworkers,

753
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: but we're also just you know, because we've we've had

754
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do this for a long time. We also, yeah,

755
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: really are each other's sort of source of strength and

756
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 1: solidarity and strange in a strange environment.

757
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 4: Totally. And I mean I did live on top of

758
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 4: a horse barn.

759
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah literally literally, Yeah, Jen, thank you, thank you.

760
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: Let's say it together, Jen, Jeff no mo Jen, Jen,

761
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: thank you so so so much for being here, for

762
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: doing this, for taking the time to talk with me.

763
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: You and I head off immediately after this to go,

764
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: uh get our asses kick some more.

765
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 2: Learning's learning a little.

766
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 4: More about I have to just say Lindy Burch's name.

767
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 4: Everyone look her up.

768
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: Jen, thank you so much for being here. Thank you

769
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: so much for taking the time. What a treat, what

770
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: a joy to spend this time with my dear friend.

771
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough.

772
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 4: All Right, I'll see it. I'll see you later and

773
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 4: i'll see it tomorrow in Texas.

774
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 2: I'll see it tomorrow in Texas.

775
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much fun Jen is. What

776
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: a kind, thoughtful, generous patient, frinchy ish. She really, she

777
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: really takes care of all of us on set, and

778
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: I'm so so grateful for her. I need to step

779
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: aside for a second. When we come back, I'm going

780
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: to be joined remotely by none other than Monica Dutton

781
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: Kelsey aswell. All Right, today we're talking to Kelsey aswell,

782
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: who you know as Monica on Yellowstone from the very beginning.

783
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 2: Kelsey is obviously.

784
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: An incredible actor who I've been lucky enough to call

785
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: my friend for four years now, and we're gonna chat

786
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: about everything Yellowstone. So Kelsey, first of all, thank you

787
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: so so much for being here. Thank you for doing this.

788
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful.

789
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 7: Oh, you're so welcome. You're the perfect person to.

790
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 6: Be doing this.

791
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 7: I'm really glad it's you.

792
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 2: I'm talking to thank you so much.

793
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,919
Speaker 1: I will I will endeavor to prove you wrong over

794
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: the course of the next forty odd minutes. So for

795
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: people who don't know you, for folks that don't know you,

796
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: can you just talk a little bit about your background,

797
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: how you wound up on Yellowstone, sort of everything, everything

798
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: about you before we started to get to know you

799
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 1: four years ago.

800
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:08,919
Speaker 7: Yeah, of course. Oh goodness, Well, I guess it really

801
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 7: started with Taylor. I worked with him on on wind

802
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:20,479
Speaker 7: River and yeah, he really I mean, he's made such

803
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 7: an impression on me on my on my career obviously,

804
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 7: but also my life and and uh and so yeah,

805
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 7: when he asked me or sent me the script for Yellowstone,

806
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 7: it was kind of a no brainer. I'd follow him anywhere.

807
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: So will you talk at all about your experience with Monica?

808
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: Is that is the same? Are there are there shades

809
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: of Kelsey in Monica? Are there shades of Monica and Kelsey?

810
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 1: Will you talk about that a little bit?

811
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 7: Yeah? I think so. I think probably same for Jimmy, right,

812
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 7: especially as the seasons go on. I think that Taylor

813
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 7: put a little bit of of us and our characters

814
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 7: for sure. R But no, Yeah, I think authenticity is

815
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 7: really important. I think, you know, one of the joys

816
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 7: of shooting the show is being able to also shoot

817
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 7: on location. I mean, I feel like Montana is just

818
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 7: such a gift us as actors because we really informs

819
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 7: the world in a way that a sound stage could

820
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 7: never So I'm really glad that he fought for that.

821
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 7: But I yeah, I mean, I I think that I

822
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 7: think that I have I have really learned from Monica.

823
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:40,439
Speaker 7: I think, you know, she's she's she's a survivor and

824
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 7: a mother and and you know someone that she's she's

825
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 7: she's human, you know, she's so yeah, No, I I

826
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 7: have a real Yeah, I have a special place in

827
00:42:58,640 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 7: my heart for you know.

828
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

829
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: I spoke to Mo.

830
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 4: I spoke to Mo.

831
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: And one thing that Mo talked about because Moe is

832
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: also such an incredible sort of he carries with him

833
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: so much history. He's such an expert on a lot

834
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: of this stuff. Like, I've learned so much from Mo.

835
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: But something that he emphasized over and over again is

836
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: that he also tries to be a sort of student.

837
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: He tries to always be learning, he tries to stay

838
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: open to the world, and I feel like that's kind

839
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: of what it's like to be an actor. A lot

840
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: of times you're simultaneously pretending to be an expert in something,

841
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: you're also all the time looking around learning from the

842
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: people around you. And on this set particularly, we're lucky

843
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: to be surrounded by you know, some real I wouldn't

844
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: use the phrase elder statesman because they're they're in their prime,

845
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 1: but the people like Kevin right like, and so Monica,

846
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: especially in season four and season three, starts to have

847
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: more and more interactions with John Dutton, more and more

848
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: sort of of these two kind of families that define her,

849
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: her her loyalties and her sort of her responsibility to

850
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: her life on the reservation, and then also her loyalties

851
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: and her responsibility to Casey, to Casey's family. To take like,

852
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:22,720
Speaker 1: she how do those two families? How does she relate

853
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 1: to those two families and the responsibilities that she feels

854
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:25,919
Speaker 1: to each of them.

855
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it wasn't it wasn't the most welcoming introduction,

856
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 7: but I do think especially last season, she I think

857
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 7: she had this you know, newfound respect for John Sutton

858
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 7: that like maybe maybe they're fighting for the same thing,

859
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 7: although in very different ways.

860
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think she really she really struggles with

861
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 6: She really struggles.

862
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 3: You know, she's.

863
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,760
Speaker 7: Fighting for her family, but also, you know, like you said,

864
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 7: she wants to, you know, can Cashy exist having a

865
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 7: foot in both worlds. It's definitely easier said than done.

866
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,280
Speaker 1: Over the last four years, Monica, you know, as Casey's

867
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: war kind of comes home, Monica's also been exposed to

868
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: these incredibly difficult, painful, traumatic situations that she has also

869
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: risen to and now, you know, in season four, is

870
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,959
Speaker 1: starting to sort of thrust herself into for the sake

871
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: of protecting her people. But I think one thing that's

872
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: been really amazing is that from the beginning of the show,

873
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: even as you guys are navigating that difficult dramatic content,

874
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:51,919
Speaker 1: there's also this like undercurrent of joy and this undercurrent

875
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: of like love and trust. And so you guys do

876
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: such an amazing job of not a lit wowing this

877
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: relationship or these characters to become only one thing or

878
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: the other, but always having the sort of opposite present

879
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: underneath it, because they would have to in order to

880
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: stay together, right, they would have to in order to

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Speaker 1: survive if this shit happened to people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's such a it's they.

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Speaker 1: Would need to have this love underneath it to keep

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Speaker 1: them together, which is just such an amazing gift that.

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Speaker 2: You guys have.

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Speaker 7: Oh bless you. No, Yeah, of course, I think you

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Speaker 7: need to know what it is that you're fighting for,

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Speaker 7: and sometimes it is kind of hard to get, or

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Speaker 7: you get you lose that for a moment. So I

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Speaker 7: think that you know, we've we've got some really like

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Speaker 7: sweet moments in this season that are just are a

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Speaker 7: good reminder of what we're fighting for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the stuff with the dog, I mean, I'm also

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Speaker 1: so excited to see that stuff. I just can't like,

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Speaker 1: there's the dog, there's all this sort of joy with

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Speaker 1: Tate there because Breckens also sort of huge.

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Speaker 3: Spoiler Jeff get a dog?

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Speaker 7: All right?

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Speaker 1: The fans demand to know you get a doll? The

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Speaker 1: big season four the big season four question, who gets

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Speaker 1: a dog? That's what everyone wants to know. Kelsey, again,

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Speaker 1: thank you so so so much for chatting with us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for all the work you do, and I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you very soon, I hope.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, definitely, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Bye. I am so thankful to all of you for

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Speaker 1: tuning in, So so grateful. I wouldn't be able to

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Speaker 1: do this without you, the Yellowstone family, so thank you

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Speaker 1: for being here. We drop new episodes every Thursday, so

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Speaker 1: Yellowstone Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: The Official Yellowstone Podcast is hosted by me Jefferson White

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