'Yellowstone' Star Wes Bentley Says He Will 'Celebrate' the Series Ending
etonline.comis coming to an end after Season 5, and while many fans are disappointed by the turn of events, series star Wes Bentley is feeling a bit of relief.Bentley recently opened up to about his challenging role on the beloved neo-Western series, and got honest about how the behind-the-scenes drama has impacted him and his experience working on the show.For Bentley, playing the morally complicated and often denigrated Jamie Dutton — the son and antagonist of Kevin Costner's John Dutton, the family patriarch — is something that sticks inside his head after the cameras stop rolling.«Jamie stays with me.
I don’t always want him there!» Bentley admitted. «When I see people talking about Method acting, my experience is that I'm trying as hard as I can to shake him.»That being said, Bentley admitted that because of the delays in production — due to contract breakdowns and public and private spats between Costner and series creator Taylor Sheridan as well as the recent writers strike — it can get «tricky» when it comes to keeping the character alive in his mind.«Life happens and it drifts a bit,» Bentley shared. «But I have a feeling it’s so ingrained that once we start really gearing up, it will all just come flooding back, and be overwhelming again.»Bentley has long said that playing a character like Jamie can be hard because the character might be killed off at any time, and he might not know about it until the scripts for that episode come in.
Now, with the show coming to an end, Bentley knows the character will meet a permanent fate of some kind.«There is both relief and trepidation because we put so much into this.
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