That loyalty is at the core of Beth’s appeal, and maybe Yellowstone’s overall success. Maybe there’s a spin-off one day where we see her-me as an old lady-but at the moment, there’s too much to lose.” For her to just sit on the porch and contemplate life and read Walt Whitman…I don’t think that's going to happen anytime soon. They’re still fighting for it, defending it, and Beth is savage and brilliant. The same with their ancestors who fought for the land. “She’s so good at it, that’s all she’s ever known,” the actor says. One thing Beth does need for herself is conflict, Reilly says. She’s a ton of fun to write, and Kelly has embraced that. And she owns the consequences, if there are any…. “She’s the only character I’ve ever written that can say or do anything, no matter how shocking or offensive or out of place. “She’s a very liberating character,” Sheridan goes on. She will not allow herself to be a victim-and stands up for those who have become one.” “I think that that’s one of the reasons so many people are inspired by her. “She refuses to surrender,” Sheridan adds. “She cares about other people's happiness more than her own,” Reilly says.īeth is also relentless. Maybe she’s appealing because she so rarely unleashes that ruthlessness for herself. Viewers are drawn to her even though she is one of the most ferocious figures in the show, cutting a swath of destruction to forge a perimeter around the Dutton’s imperiled land. It’s a testament to Beth that viewers crave happiness for her in a show where that outcome seems unlikely for almost anyone else in this tragic story of a family undone by its own power. So, could Carter earn that from her at some point? Yeah, maybe.” But the interesting thing about her is she stands by the decisions. Beth can be extremely impulsive and make a decision at the drop of a hat. Carter hasn’t fully proven himself yet, and it was a pretty rash decision to have this boy live with him. “But she’s extremely affectionate with Rip and with Kayce and her father. “Beth is mistrusting of motives, generally speaking,” Sheridan says. Sheridan suggests she may also have been holding out on the boy deliberately. That’s what Beth has with Rip ( Cole Hauser) who also came to the Dutton Ranch as a troubled young man, her brother Kayce ( Luke Grimes) and their aging pater familias. “Her only experience with a mother is her mother and, and her mother was pretty tough.” “She can take on a role that is somewhat similar, but I don’t think Beth thinks of herself as a mother,” Sheridan says. As a young girl, Beth was blamed-cursed, even-by her dying mother for causing the horse-riding accident that fatally injured her. Many of those theorizing about why Beth would reject the boy’s term of endearment seem to forget how loaded the word “mother” is for her. And I think just because an audience wants something, it doesn’t mean the right thing to do is give it to them.” I don’t follow any of that stuff,” he says when asked about the fan speculation about the Beth “mama” moment. “I don’t have any idea how it was received. Sheridan, the cocreator, showrunner and writer of nearly every episode of Yellowstone, takes an equally tough-love approach to his loyal viewers. They really wanted Beth to just soften and say, ‘Yes, baby, come here!’ and have a happily ever after, but that’s not Taylor Sheridan and that’s not our world.” It makes it a pleasure to be able to try and act all those notes,” Reilly adds. “There’s so many things going on in that moment, which is what makes it beautiful writing. The outpouring of analysis about why it happened may simply be a sign that it hit the audience in a meaningful way. Same goes for me.” The final cut comes as she’s leaving: “Crying doesn’t help.” “It’s not true.” There’s no reason she has to rebuff the boy, but she can’t live with that word being applied to her. Then she halts, and the dim smile ices over. “Morning, mama,” he says, while cleaning a stall. That’s why viewers of the modern Montana Western have been obsessing over a scene in the final episode of season four, in which Beth passes through a barn on her family property and is greeted by Carter, a homeless, orphaned kid she brought to the ranch and has been protecting like the child she never had. It only hurts sometimes, when it’s love and happiness ricocheting off her. She betrays no weakness and is impervious to everything. That’s one reason Kelly Reilly’s cutthroat Yellowstone character is so appealing to fans of the series. The world has been brutal to her, and she has responded in kind. Beth Dutton is not the nurturing type, unless you count grudges.
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