Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Official Yellowstone Podcast. I'm Jefferson. Why,
Speaker 1: I am joined as always by Jen Landon, and we
Speaker 1: have a fun show on tap for you today with
Speaker 1: a guest that we've been talking about for the past
Speaker 1: couple of episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeff, I don't know if I could be more
Speaker 2: excited than I am about today's episode. And I feel
Speaker 2: like we all have crushes on our guest that we're
Speaker 2: going to be speaking too soon, which is the amazing
Speaker 2: Brandon Splenard, who plays Spencer Dutton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it took him six months, he had to cross
Speaker 1: several oceans, and now we've got him in the studio today.
Speaker 1: I am so excited to talk with Brandon. He's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite actors in nineteen twenty three. It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite characters in nineteen twenty three. And like
Speaker 1: we've been watching this show. We've seen seven episodes of
Speaker 1: this now. I'm a huge, huge fan of the show
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to hear about his experience. It's
Speaker 1: working on it right after this quick break.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm really excited to talk to Brandon in
Speaker 2: a little bit. But the last time you and I spoke, Jeff,
Speaker 2: we were on episode four, and a lot has happened
Speaker 2: since then. So home, the home that the Spencer characters
Speaker 2: returning to, looks very different than it did. Well, let's
Speaker 2: say at the beginning of episode four, certainly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been it's been a transformative season for the
Speaker 1: Dutton ranch itself. You know, Spencer's been on this epic
Speaker 1: journey all around the world trying to reach home, and
Speaker 1: the real question is is there going to be anything
Speaker 1: left by the time he gets there. So when we
Speaker 1: last spoke about nineteen twenty three, Jacob had been shot.
Speaker 1: John Dutton had been killed. It was a really like
Speaker 1: low moment for the ranch.
Speaker 2: Does is Spencer aware that his brother has been shot
Speaker 2: and killed in that letter? I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think, oh, yes, yes, Alex
Speaker 1: reads him that letter. Yeah, and that's it feels like,
Speaker 1: what is the final straw that summons him home. It
Speaker 1: feels like he's been resisting coming home. Kara has been
Speaker 1: sort of trying to get in touch with him, and
Speaker 1: then it feels like this attack, this sort of savage
Speaker 1: attack on the Duttons and his family is what finally
Speaker 1: spurs him into motion to head home. Jacob is wounded.
Speaker 1: Jack is like bloodthirsty that the journey that Jack has
Speaker 1: been on is fascinating and I get it right. His
Speaker 1: father was killed, his mother dies. He is on this
Speaker 1: kind of this personal he seems, and Kara says this
Speaker 1: to him over and over again, like, you know your vision,
Speaker 1: You've gotta come back to reality. This sort of revenge fantasy,
Speaker 1: this like bloodthirst that you're feeling is not what we need.
Speaker 1: This is not constructive. It's a kind of maze that
Speaker 1: he's lost in. And then there's this beautiful moment when
Speaker 1: he finally sort of the haze clears because Elizabeth, his fiance,
Speaker 1: is going to leave him. She says, all right, get
Speaker 1: me out of here. If all you are is a killer,
Speaker 1: if all you can think about is revenge, then we're done.
Speaker 1: And that's the sort of final straw that thankfully pierces
Speaker 1: through that fugue state he's in, so he comes back
Speaker 1: to reality and accepts his responsibility. You know it. Really
Speaker 1: he has his own version. We've seen Spencer's struggle with
Speaker 1: this death drive, this kind of in the wake of
Speaker 1: the tragedy that Spencer has witnessed and faced, he's been
Speaker 1: almost trying to get himself killed big game hunting. We've
Speaker 1: seen Jack experience his own version of the same thing
Speaker 1: in the wake of the death of his father. You know,
Speaker 1: Jacob being shot, feeling so helpless an impotent. We almost
Speaker 1: see him driving towards his own death senselessly. And it
Speaker 1: makes me think of a moment where that a thing
Speaker 1: that Rip says to Jimmy, and like season two of Yellowstone,
Speaker 1: Jimmy wants to just get up and go and attack
Speaker 1: the men that killed his grandfather, and Rips like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you how to get rid of problems
Speaker 1: so they don't become bigger problems. And it feels this
Speaker 1: whole time like Kara is saying Jack, calm down. We've
Speaker 1: got to be logical. We have to take care of
Speaker 1: this in a way that isn't going to create a
Speaker 1: bigger issue for us or kick the hornet's nest. We
Speaker 1: have to do this the right way, or they are
Speaker 1: going to win. If we rise to this drive for revenge,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be overpowered and killed. That's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: That tactic isn't valid.
Speaker 2: On that front. And again we can ask Brandon this,
Speaker 2: but do we think that Spencer's motivation for coming home
Speaker 2: is to take care of his family, protect his family,
Speaker 2: or this vengeance that seems to kind of permeate through
Speaker 2: the Dutton line.
Speaker 1: That's a great question, and I bet it's that motive
Speaker 1: is changing over time as he himself kind of comes
Speaker 1: back to life in his love for Alex. You know,
Speaker 1: like we've seen his death drive evolve. We've seen him
Speaker 1: sort of wake up in some ways to the possibilities
Speaker 1: of life, the sort of beauty of life through this
Speaker 1: epic journey he's having alongside Alex, which is another to me,
Speaker 1: I got to say, another sort of Rip and Casey parallel.
Speaker 1: These characters who have been sort of taken all the
Speaker 1: way up to the edge of despair, been taken all
Speaker 1: the way up to the edge of the sort of
Speaker 1: cliff of misery, and are brought back to life by
Speaker 1: the women they love, by their families, by a sort
Speaker 1: of sense of responsibility to the people they love. I
Speaker 1: feel like we've watched Spencer go through that journey, and
Speaker 1: we've watched Jack go through that journey, and even Jacob.
Speaker 1: Even Jacob is listening to Kara and sort of tempering
Speaker 1: his own desire for revenge his own desire to sort
Speaker 1: of kick back at the men that wronged him. Kara
Speaker 1: really feels like the mediating impulse in all of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, what Taylor's writing over and over again is
Speaker 2: that all men would just be dead essentially if there
Speaker 2: weren't women around to say, honey, chill out, have a drink,
Speaker 2: whatever you need, soften the heart, you know, don't kill yourself.
Speaker 1: I think that's right, And Kara says, I think, Kara
Speaker 1: says to Banner himself. She says, men kill quickly, You're
Speaker 1: gonna wish that it was that easy. Women kill slowly.
Speaker 1: And it seems really clear to me that Kara's not
Speaker 1: It's not that she doesn't want vengeance. She wants vengeance
Speaker 1: as much as anybody else. Right, She her husband was
Speaker 1: shot right in front of her, her her nephew was killed.
Speaker 1: Like there's She's suffered as much as anybody else as
Speaker 1: a result of this attack. So she wants vengeance. She
Speaker 1: just wants it in a sort of methodical, calculated way
Speaker 1: that's going to last.
Speaker 2: Right, so that protection is still like maybe her bigger
Speaker 2: motivation in the long run that it might be deadlier
Speaker 2: to everybody else who is her enemy, but that it's
Speaker 2: primary motivators and vengeance.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we've seen this across all of these shows.
Speaker 1: You know, if you take justice into your own hands,
Speaker 1: you're cutting off hydra heads, but two more grow back.
Speaker 1: You know, every sort of enemy that John Dutton has
Speaker 1: struck down in Yellowstone, they tend to come back more
Speaker 1: with new weapons, with new sort of forms. You know,
Speaker 1: rip kills what's his name, Oh, this is the ultimate
Speaker 1: the ultimate humiliation is I've forgotten his name, Rorke. He
Speaker 1: kills Roork in the river with the snake happens a
Speaker 1: bigger batter snake shows up on a plane from New
Speaker 1: York City. Right, you take justice into your own hands,
Speaker 1: you don't build sustainable, lasting solutions. So part of what
Speaker 1: Kara's doing here is saying, no, no, no, don't just
Speaker 1: get on a horse and go shoot some more. Then
Speaker 1: they're gonna hire more guys. They're gonna come back over here,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna kill more of us. She's saying, let's
Speaker 1: do this, right, let's do this, you know, legally, let's
Speaker 1: bring these institutions in to this justice such that it
Speaker 1: lasts and perseveres, so that you know, the next time
Speaker 1: she turns her head. She's not losing another precious member
Speaker 1: of her family. And you know who better to help
Speaker 1: than Spencer. Nothing right Spencer has You know what, I'm
Speaker 1: amazed by Spencer because he's got this kind of cool
Speaker 1: logic to him, even while he is an incredible and listen,
Speaker 1: my man can kill. He's got that dog in him.
Speaker 1: He has killed pretty much every zoo animal. He's killed
Speaker 1: all my favorite zoo animals so far out of necessity,
Speaker 1: with respect, out of necessity. But he also has this
Speaker 1: kind of cool, methodical head in these moments, you know,
Speaker 1: when they're stuck on the capsized tugboat and you know, Alix,
Speaker 1: you know that like exposure kills you in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ocean real quick, you got the sun beating
Speaker 1: down on your dehydrated. He stays cool, he stays methodical.
Speaker 1: He's a survivor. He's exactly the soldier that Karen needs.
Speaker 1: So obviously, Spencer, you know this, this vital soldier in
Speaker 1: the Dutton's effort to keep their ranches headed home, and
Speaker 1: he's heading home to face a multitude of threats. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite parts of nineteen twenty three has been
Speaker 1: this really interesting cool villains. You know, we've seen Donald
Speaker 1: Whitfield right, this kind of big business robber Baron almost
Speaker 1: sort of circling representing one side of this equation that
Speaker 1: will of course play out again in Yellowstone, presenting big
Speaker 1: money representing industry, representing the desire to sort of pillage
Speaker 1: this land to pull resources out of it. But then
Speaker 1: we also one of my favorite characters on the show
Speaker 1: who I'm just absolutely obsessed with because I love this
Speaker 1: actor too, is Banner, right, Jerome Flynn's character Banner Creighton,
Speaker 1: because I love seeing him sort of go through this journey,
Speaker 1: starting out as basically a sheepherder who is in a
Speaker 1: desperate position, somebody with very little one of many sheep
Speaker 1: herders sort of having to make this desperate play, banding
Speaker 1: together his sort of compatriots and attacking the Duttons, the
Speaker 1: most powerful, richest institution in the valley, attacking them and
Speaker 1: in doing so also enriching himself immensely. I love the
Speaker 1: team up. I really do love the team up of
Speaker 1: Donald and Banner because they represent these two complete, deletely
Speaker 1: different sides of the coin. It's such a funny, odd couple,
Speaker 1: and I could endlessly watch Banners sort of walk through
Speaker 1: his brand new house, turning on the faucets, drinking champagne,
Speaker 1: experiencing the other side of his life. You know, we're
Speaker 1: watching all these characters part of this. You know, one
Speaker 1: of the big kind of themes of the show is modernity,
Speaker 1: the steady march of modernity. There's all these questions about wait,
Speaker 1: is the railroad coming, is electricity coming? Is plumbing coming?
Speaker 1: Washing machines? Obviously, I get so excited about this stuff.
Speaker 1: I could talk about it all day. I'm gonna spare
Speaker 1: you all that We're gonna take a quick break, and
Speaker 1: when we come back, we've got with us the incredible
Speaker 1: Brandon Spleinar. So stay right there. You know, we get
Speaker 1: the gift of talking to a lot of our friends
Speaker 1: on this show. We get the gift of talking to
Speaker 1: a lot of our workers. In this case, Jen and
Speaker 1: I feel incredibly lucky to talk to an actor that
Speaker 1: we're just fans of. We've both been watching nineteen twenty three,
Speaker 1: We've been gushing to you this audience about it for weeks,
Speaker 1: and perhaps no character more than Spencer Dutton. So we
Speaker 1: feel incredibly lucky to have with us today an actor
Speaker 1: whom we admire very much. Brandon's Glennard, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being here.
Speaker 3: Man. Yeah, of course, Man, happy to be here, Brandon.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to start at the very beginning, like
Speaker 2: what can you just tell us a little bit about
Speaker 2: how this role came to you, what that audition process
Speaker 2: was like, had you seen Yellowstone before, etc.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I I've been wanting to work with Taylor
Speaker 4: for a long time, a really long time since I
Speaker 4: saw Heller h Water years ago, and he was kind
Speaker 4: of at the top of my top of my list
Speaker 4: in terms of filmmakers and creators. And my manager called
Speaker 4: me and he was like, Hey, that nineteen twenty three
Speaker 4: project you've been tracking for a while, they want to
Speaker 4: read you. Perhapsideria. John Popsidi is a casting director on there.
Speaker 4: He's a good friend and he's he's cast me in
Speaker 4: I think four or five projects and he's like pastes
Speaker 4: casting it, and uh you got a roll for you
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh shit, okay. Uh so he
Speaker 4: send it over and yeah, and I just immediately resonated
Speaker 4: with it just in the breakdown and on the page
Speaker 4: and felt I felt good about it, you know, I
Speaker 4: felt confident about it from the jumping Like I said,
Speaker 4: It just resonated with me in a way that I
Speaker 4: hadn't really felt before with anything I'd come across or
Speaker 4: an auditioned for.
Speaker 3: And it was it was honestly out of anything I've
Speaker 3: ever done.
Speaker 4: It was the quickest and most painless casting process.
Speaker 3: It was so fast.
Speaker 4: I mean sometimes these things drag out for three or
Speaker 4: four months and you're just losing your mind, you know.
Speaker 3: So it was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes it's just right.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Jen and I were marveling before you got on at
Speaker 1: what exquisite casting this is. It really is an incredible
Speaker 1: energetic match. Will you talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: experience of functionally sort of going on this personal journey,
Speaker 1: this kind of adventure.
Speaker 4: Just there their creative process, Taylor's creative process, and just
Speaker 4: this whole sort of Yellowstone universe that he's created. And
Speaker 4: I can't speak to any of his other projects, but
Speaker 4: I imagine they're pretty similar. I mean they are so immersive,
Speaker 4: and you know, in terms of acting and having to
Speaker 4: create things for yourself for them to be real. I mean,
Speaker 4: they take care of so much, so many things for you.
Speaker 4: It just just really thrown you on that and my my,
Speaker 4: my personal journey as an actor and as a person
Speaker 4: mirrored Spencer's in so many ways. Just it's kind of eerie,
Speaker 4: you know, and just just being out there in Africa
Speaker 4: and trying to make sense everything, and you know, being
Speaker 4: thrust into this role with all this responsibility to carry
Speaker 4: this thing, and that also mirroring his responsibility to to
Speaker 4: you know, take care Alex and to get home to
Speaker 4: his family, and and you know, always being out of
Speaker 4: his element, but also at the same time always being
Speaker 4: in his element, you know, so in his element being
Speaker 4: out of his element, you know, he finds comfort in
Speaker 4: the uncomfortable. So it's this weird paradox that I definitely
Speaker 4: tapped into and just you know, live the entire time myself.
Speaker 2: Do you think like, should this role have come into
Speaker 2: your life five years ago, that you would have been
Speaker 2: at a place too, like it would have been a
Speaker 2: match then, or do you think do you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 4: I'm a I'm a firm believer in just a divine
Speaker 4: timing of life and things in general. And you know,
Speaker 4: I can pretty clearly track the trajectory of how things
Speaker 4: have evolved based on where I was at personally and
Speaker 4: what I was trying to do in my personal life.
Speaker 4: And I mean, I don't think that it could have
Speaker 4: happened at any other time because I wouldn't have been
Speaker 4: in a position to handle it the way that I
Speaker 4: was able to and bring that vibe to Spencer.
Speaker 3: That he needed.
Speaker 4: At any other point in my life if I was
Speaker 4: in my mid twenties versus my early thirties and having
Speaker 4: gone through what I've gone through personally in the last
Speaker 4: five years, and that shift, and yeah, there's no way.
Speaker 3: There's just no way, And I wouldn't have wanted it.
Speaker 1: It's a fascinating Yeah, you mentioned yourself. You feel as
Speaker 1: though working on the show has has changed you, You've
Speaker 1: grown from working on the show. By the time we
Speaker 1: find Spencer. When we first find Spencer, he has lived
Speaker 1: a long, difficult life. You know, he is a part
Speaker 1: of this generation of young men who were forced to
Speaker 1: age prematurely by participating in the horror that was World
Speaker 1: War One, Right, so he has seen some shit at
Speaker 1: a young age by the time we first find him,
Speaker 1: and he is so clearly haunted by it. It's almost
Speaker 1: like he's after his life. It's like his life is
Speaker 1: over in some sense and he's almost hunting his own death.
Speaker 1: It feels to me, like doing what he's doing. He's
Speaker 1: going out there until one of these fucking lions brings
Speaker 1: him down. The only you know, he's almost looking for
Speaker 1: the animal that's big enough to kill him back. And
Speaker 1: then over the course of these seven episodes, it's an
Speaker 1: amazing gift just watching this sort of life come back
Speaker 1: into him in part because of this relationship with Alex.
Speaker 1: So will you just talk a little about working with Julia,
Speaker 1: you know her, she also is coming into this with
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of responsibility, and I know from being
Speaker 1: on set, your greatest gift is each other, your greatest
Speaker 1: talk about immersive. Having a performance like that right across
Speaker 1: from you is the greatest gift in the world. Will
Speaker 1: you talk about your sort of shared process and how
Speaker 1: you found these characters together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's great that you're perceiving all that
Speaker 4: from that from the show, because that was all the intentions.
Speaker 3: I'm happy about that. That's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we we got really lucky. You know,
Speaker 4: Taylor didn't do a chemistry read for the role of
Speaker 4: Alex at all, and neither of us have really been
Speaker 4: in this position before in terms of a role that
Speaker 4: significant in a show.
Speaker 3: That is such a following and sort of this built
Speaker 3: in viewership.
Speaker 4: Even though it's the first season of you know, the
Speaker 4: show itself, there's so much going into it that you
Speaker 4: know you're going to have those eyes.
Speaker 3: And I think we bonded in a.
Speaker 4: Lot of ways, and especially in that way, you know,
Speaker 4: just sort of entering this new arena in our careers
Speaker 4: and his actors together, and we were fortunate enough to
Speaker 4: get along really well and just kind of have an
Speaker 4: instant rapport.
Speaker 1: Just the echoes are so apparent, right you're talking about
Speaker 1: your experience of working on the show. Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: to leave my family behind. I'm going to leave my
Speaker 1: friends behind. I'm going to go into the middle of
Speaker 1: nowhere and put my trust in these other actors, put
Speaker 1: my trust in this crew. And that's very much what
Speaker 1: the character's doing too, Right, He's in the middle of
Speaker 1: fucking nowhere, far from everything he's ever known or loved,
Speaker 1: and he finds this person to trust, which is such
Speaker 1: a fascinating journey to watch. So you get cast on
Speaker 1: a show starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, your characters on the other side
Speaker 1: of the world. What did you do so much of
Speaker 1: the poll for Spencer is getting home, getting home to
Speaker 1: this life, this responsibility, this duty. How did you approach
Speaker 1: in your own mind and imagination developing a relationship to
Speaker 1: these characters that you're not working with, you're on the
Speaker 1: other side of the world. What did you do with
Speaker 1: those other you know, your your your siblings on the show,
Speaker 1: these other characters, so you have a rich relationship to
Speaker 1: How did you build that bond with Montana and the
Speaker 1: Dutton ranch such that we can feel Spencer's pain being
Speaker 1: separated from it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I I it's a similar I you know,
Speaker 4: I did a similar thing with the war, just just
Speaker 4: you know, you just build memory, you know, and then
Speaker 4: just meditating with them, sitting with them until until they
Speaker 4: feel real.
Speaker 3: So he's such an internal.
Speaker 4: Character, so you know, you got to do that Otherwise,
Speaker 4: just there's nothing going on.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break really quick, and when we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna keep talking to Brandon because there's
Speaker 1: a lot more to talk about.
Speaker 3: Keep talking.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I have a question that I need to
Speaker 2: ask before I forget, because I will forget. And it
Speaker 2: is a specific moment and we were talking a little
Speaker 2: bit earlier about loading things with memory. When the Julia
Speaker 2: character makes the decision to come after Spencer, to come
Speaker 2: after you and runs to the car and she gets
Speaker 2: in the car and she yells to him, find somebody
Speaker 2: who loves you. You got you were emotional in that moment.
Speaker 2: I remember noticing that, and it was it really struck me.
Speaker 2: And if I don't know, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: remember that moment, I don't know if you can talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about that. It struck me because it
Speaker 2: felt very much like something that was so deeply tied
Speaker 2: to the character, but it also felt to me like
Speaker 2: something that was tied that existed between, like that great
Speaker 2: thing that can happen with actors where you're like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. It felt like it had both. It felt
Speaker 2: like it had the actor's connection and the character's connection
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 4: It's tough, it's it's it's tough to delineate what's what's
Speaker 4: a Spencer thing and what's a brand and thing it
Speaker 4: really is when, especially when you're when you're in it.
Speaker 3: Those lines are hard to see.
Speaker 4: But I do I can speak from from Spencer's point
Speaker 4: of view that you know he's had such a such
Speaker 4: a barrier up for such a long time, I mean
Speaker 4: years and years, such a strong barrier, and no one's
Speaker 4: ever crossed that barrier. And I think he's just overwhelmed
Speaker 4: by this person he doesn't even know, who's just so
Speaker 4: see something in him to the point where where she's
Speaker 4: just like steam rolls through that that fucking thing so
Speaker 4: and it hits him hard. You know, there's that level
Speaker 4: of just blind faith. And I want to say love,
Speaker 4: but I think it is love at that point, even
Speaker 4: though it's so early on. You see something in him,
Speaker 4: and I think it just catches him off guard and
Speaker 4: it just hits him right in the art. You know,
Speaker 4: my here's this person. He doesn't even know me, and
Speaker 4: he doesn't think very highly of himself. So I think
Speaker 4: it just it just, you know, starts to just fill
Speaker 4: his cup a little bit. I think it's it's the
Speaker 4: first few drops in that in that cup, you know
Speaker 4: that's been empty for a long time, and I think
Speaker 4: I think that's what it is.
Speaker 2: One of the things that Jeff and I experience on
Speaker 2: Yellowstone is that the shoots can be a bit grueling
Speaker 2: because we're often doing what we're what it appears we're
Speaker 2: doing or sometimes it feels like we're shooting a doc
Speaker 2: and that's part of what makes the job so great.
Speaker 2: And I was wondering if there were days on this
Speaker 2: show that stood out in your mind, is like a
Speaker 2: particularly adventurous shoot day or or a challenging one, because
Speaker 2: so many of the sequences that you're in are beautiful
Speaker 2: and epic and and riveting, and wondering what was sort
Speaker 2: of the stand adults for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it was just all the swimming episode six,
Speaker 4: all that swimming, man, that was that was that was tough.
Speaker 3: That was only the toughest thing I've.
Speaker 4: Done, uh, on a on a on a project, hands down,
Speaker 4: I mean, one of the toughest things I've done in general.
Speaker 4: And I'm I'm I'm in pretty decent shape. And we
Speaker 4: swam a lot going into that and it was it
Speaker 4: was hard because the water was cold, it was ocean water,
Speaker 4: and it was pretty chilly outside. And what ends up
Speaker 4: being in the show, as you guys know, it's you know,
Speaker 4: a few minutes in the show, but we did for
Speaker 4: four days, so you're you're you know, I'm watching it
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, that's it.
Speaker 3: That's all for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's like, yeah, we were, we were you know,
Speaker 4: we were out there and Guy Ferland, our director. I
Speaker 4: remember we'd come in off the off the water and
Speaker 4: Julian and I would be to and shaken to the
Speaker 4: to the bones and uh, you know, soaking wet in
Speaker 4: the wind, and.
Speaker 3: I would be like was He's like, oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: You look like you're really struggling out there.
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, Guy, yeah we are. Uh it's
Speaker 4: uh yeah that that that that that was.
Speaker 3: That was a trip. That was. That was great.
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's you know, they're they're tough days,
Speaker 4: but you love those days because you don't have there's
Speaker 4: no acting, you know, and anytime you can cut out
Speaker 4: the acting, it's great.
Speaker 3: So I'm i'm i'm I'm I'm.
Speaker 4: Grateful for those days. I love those days. But those
Speaker 4: were those were hard days.
Speaker 2: Brandon. This is not the most highbrow question, but because
Speaker 2: everybody's obsessed with Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford and for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, it's given me some Indiana Jones vibes. Has
Speaker 2: has anyone else said this to you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I've I've heard a lot of the Indiana
Speaker 4: Jones h vibe comparison talks. Yeah, it's it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's the same color palette.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's more than that, don't dumb it. It's more
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 1: You know, Brandy, They tell me the same thing. I've
Speaker 1: been dealing with this for five seasons now. Everybody looks
Speaker 1: at me and says, Indiana Jones.
Speaker 3: You know Indiana Jones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get sick of it, right, It's kind of
Speaker 1: it gets old being compared to one of the most
Speaker 1: iconic characters and performances in history.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, taicular, leave it. It's it's a burden.
Speaker 3: You got a bear. No, it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 4: A good Yeah, you know, you hope to not get
Speaker 4: any comparisons, but it's human nature to get comparisons, and
Speaker 4: it's it's a hell of a comparison.
Speaker 3: So I'll take it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's I mean, if I were watching it,
Speaker 4: I compare myself to it as well, just based on
Speaker 4: Harrison being in the show. And then, like I said,
Speaker 4: is the same we both carry around. India doesn't carry
Speaker 4: a rope, but he used he uses a whip.
Speaker 1: I go the other direction. I was watching Indiana Jones
Speaker 1: the other day and I was kind of like, damn,
Speaker 1: this is a bit of a Spencer Dutton outfit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: My man's kind of Spencer dut lately. Oh we got
Speaker 1: the girl, Spencer Dutton vibes.
Speaker 3: Spencer Dunn vibes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, we haven't seen Spencer's whip yet,
Speaker 4: but he's he's going in that bag.
Speaker 1: He's very resourceful, bro. Because you're also saying, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a dangerous journey home, but also, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: home is pretty fucking dangerous too. The shift that's going
Speaker 1: down at the dust like, it's I'm very excited and listen,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I don't know what happens after
Speaker 1: episode seven. I don't know what happens in episode eight.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happens in I hope there's a
Speaker 1: million more episodes to come. But I'm extremely excited for
Speaker 1: the you know, to see Spencer Dutton reunited God, you know,
Speaker 1: God willing on the ranch, putting these skills to work,
Speaker 1: you know, on if he can if he can kill
Speaker 1: an elephant, if he can kill a lion, surely he
Speaker 1: can kill these like scruffy sheep herding guys.
Speaker 4: Right, Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't think that
Speaker 4: there's really an obstacle that he can't face. I mean,
Speaker 4: he is one of the most capable characters there are,
Speaker 4: I think, far more capable than I am. Yeah, now
Speaker 4: I'm I'm excited for him to get back to the range.
Speaker 1: Brandon, thanks so much, man. Honestly, we're just fans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is unsurprising that in real life you're basically Spencer Dutton.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, and so it is a It's a
Speaker 1: great honor to meet you as a fan of your work,
Speaker 1: as a fan of the show. Thank you for taking
Speaker 1: the time to talk with us. What a gift.
Speaker 4: Thanks man, I appreciate that so much. I'm happy you
Speaker 4: guys are digging it, and I'm excited if you're to
Speaker 4: see the rest.
Speaker 3: Of it for sure.
Speaker 2: Same, It's amazing and you really are incredible.
Speaker 3: Thanks Brandon, Thank you guys so much. Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: The Official Yellowstone Podcast is a production of one oh
Speaker 1: one Studios and Paramount. This episode was produced by Scott Stone.
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