‘Yellowstone’s’ Kelly Reilly: ‘Beth Is the Most Challenging Role I’ve Ever Had to Play’
thewrap.comThis story first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.It’s hard to think of another TV show in recent memory that has taken the bull by its horns in viewership in quite the way Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone” has.
It is the most-watched cable series currently on the tube and has nearly doubled its audience every single season since its second.
And after four tremendously successful seasons that finally led to its first-ever Emmy nomination last year (for production design), it appears the beloved oater might be a force to be reckoned with in its first major awards-season rodeo.The fair-haired, classically trained British actress Kelly Reilly has made the down-home, suffer-no-fools, equity-firm honcho Beth Dutton a fan favorite (there are countless web pages devoted to her cutting witticisms) — first through the character’s bouts with addiction and now as an unlikely, tough-love maternal figure to an orphaned young boy (Finn Little).
Reilly thinks the drama has a similar trajectory to another semi-recent sensation about a tight-knit family with secrets that butts heads with baddies. “I always remember my friends talking about ‘Breaking Bad,’ and it was this kind of kooky, small show that I was like, ‘I’ve got to catch up with it.’ And then all of a sudden I remember Season 5 was about to air and it just became an event.
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