{"id":595771,"date":"2023-01-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/yellowstone-star-wes-bentley-on-jamies-shocking-showdown-with-beth-if-it-hurts-fine-well-get-over-it\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:00:00","slug":"yellowstone-star-wes-bentley-on-jamies-shocking-showdown-with-beth-if-it-hurts-fine-well-get-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/yellowstone-star-wes-bentley-on-jamies-shocking-showdown-with-beth-if-it-hurts-fine-well-get-over-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Star Wes Bentley on Jamie\u2019s Shocking Showdown With Beth: \u2018If It Hurts, Fine, We\u2019ll Get Over It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<h2>\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Star Wes Bentley on Jamie\u2019s Shocking Showdown With Beth: \u2018If It Hurts, Fine, We\u2019ll Get Over It\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>And where does Jamie go from here?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Yellowstone-Wes-Bentley-936x527.jpg\" alt=\"Yellowstone Wes Bentley\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\">\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Paramount<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Part of the fun of \u201cYellowstone\u201d Season 5 was to watch Jamie (Wes Bentley), the adopted son of John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and mortal enemy of John\u2019s biological daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly), mutate into an even more oily and complicated character. And all of his political maneuvering led to one of the best showdowns in the history of the series, as he and Beth went at it, with both characters letting the venom fly.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren\u2019t totally caught up, this season Jamie assumed his role as the attorney general of Montana, working under John Dutton and alongside Beth. Of course he was constantly undermined and badgered by his family members, even after he fell under the spell of a powerful new operative looking to bring down the family.<\/p>\n<p>TheWrap spoke to Bentley about what went into the scene, what his relationship with \u201cYellowstone\u201d creator Taylor Sheridan is like and what he can tease about the back half of season 5 (set to debut on the Paramount Network this summer).<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a aria-label=\"\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Season 5 Won\u2019t Return Until This Summer, Becoming the Latest Series to Air in Batches\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/yellowstone-season-5-midseason-premiere-summer-2023\/\">\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/yellowstone-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Season 5 Won\u2019t Return Until This Summer, Becoming the Latest Series to Air in Batches\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve been on the show since the beginning. Did you have any indication that it would be this phenomenon?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, I mean Taylor did. I hear this stuff all the time, I\u2019ve worked with people that believe it, but they say, \u201cThis is going to be this and that and that\u201d. But everything Taylor said the show would be \u2013 <em>it\u2019s going to go many seasons and it\u2019s going be the biggest thing you ever did. And it\u2019s going to be biggest show on TV<\/em>. And you\u2019re like, <em>Well, I could see the potential of that, but let\u2019s see<\/em>. And it is all of that and more. It\u2019s been a trip, though, to see the growth and who watches the show and what they\u2019re into about the show. It just proves that Taylor can avoid the polarizing things and let you into the <em>life<\/em> of it all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your relationship with Taylor like? And how has it changed over the years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great. It\u2019s been great from the beginning. And from the first phone call with us talking about it to now, even what he said to me then, which is this is a Greek tragedy in big sky country. Well, that\u2019s how I described Beth and Jamie, that\u2019s a bold Greek play relationship between them that complicated, that has that heightened feeling that they bring that comes from that. But he and I are close. And I don\u2019t ask him any questions because I find it in the writing. I love to discover in the writing, sometimes line by line, what\u2019s coming out, what the depths he\u2019s put into it, because he puts a lot of stuff in there. And you just give it the time to discover it. Every once awhile, we just talk to catch up. But also, if I have questions, he definitely will answer and help guide me, which is great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fun thing about Jamie as a character, too, is that he\u2019s so different season to season. How do you prepare for that as an actor and does Taylor give you any kind of heads-up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, no, but I find it in the writing. He doesn\u2019t\u2026 I shouldn\u2019t say that\u2026 in conversations, I hear ideas come out of him. I\u2019m not asking but he\u2019ll say what Jamie\u2019s plan is or thinks his plan is because we both agree, Jamie is a chess player thinking steps ahead all the time. He always had a plan up until this beginning of this season, where he felt stumped for the first time, since he didn\u2019t know what Beth knew or not. Anyway, Taylor and I are really close on when we need to be close and it doesn\u2019t take much if he\u2019s on set, we don\u2019t even have to say much to each other. It\u2019s a few words. But doing it for so long you get into the depths. And I\u2019m so grateful. All I ever wanted to do is play diverse characters. And I\u2019m playing diverse characters in one character. Every scene is a big moment for Jamie. Since season 2, it\u2019s just these huge swings and things that he goes through and it\u2019s been the biggest challenge in my career and also the biggest joy in my career to try and meet his writing and bring what he\u2019s given me to life. It\u2019s been a challenge and a pleasure to do all of that.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a aria-label=\"\u20181923\u2019 Cast and Character Guide: Who\u2019s Who in the \u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Prequel? (Photos)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/1923-cast-characters-yellowstone-prequel\/\">\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1923-harrison-ford-helen-mirren-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u20181923\u2019 Cast and Character Guide: Who\u2019s Who in the \u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Prequel? (Photos)\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>We\u2019ve got to talk about some of your big scenes in the finale. Can you talk about what went into the big confrontation with Beth?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve worked so long on building that. When we met, we just clicked and he\u2019s so sweet and unlike Beth. She doesn\u2019t have that cold streak and so working in to get into that space with her, we together worked on how nasty she could be to Jamie because it was key. She was really working hard, doing a great job and we were working together and it was really fun. We were finding that in the nastiness that had to be there between them, to just use brutal force. We trust each other because we know each other, we like each other. I told her, \u201cYou can just do it. Do it. Don\u2019t worry about me. You know, if it hurts fine, we\u2019ll get over it, it\u2019ll look great.\u201d And it did work.<\/p>\n<p>She was amazing at all the physical stuff but also emotionally, being able to relate to as well, her telling me to go for and saying awful things and being awful to her. That trust gets us there. And these last scenes are different for Jamie because he steps into a power position in a moment, who knows how long but, but he has a moment of like, <em>Oh, I got the power here. She doesn\u2019t know about this thing<\/em>. <em>I\u2019ve made my move on the impeachment. It\u2019s working<\/em>. And you just feel him change his position on her. Even his stance on her in that moment. That was different even for us to get on the day, the things I was doing and the things she was doing to get into the scene. But we\u2019re at a point now where we don\u2019t even have to talk much. We know that trust is there. We know we\u2019re going give it. If we don\u2019t, we just say, \u201cCome on go, go go let it loose on me.\u201d Like the scene on the side of the road, like, let loose on me. She went to a place I\u2019ve never seen her go, which was horrifying and terrifying and so sad crushing and so amazing. But that was because we can let each other go there and feel safe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The other amazing part of that scene, which is implied, is that by Jamie telling her about where the bodies are buried, that will put a strain on Beth and Rip\u2019s relationship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, because the season before she threatens that thing \u2013 she threatens Rip on Jamie and Jamie freaks out and panics and begs her not to do that. And so we see the transition just in those two moments where he must know what\u2019s coming by making the impeachment move. He knows three moves down is his demise. Now it\u2019s about his kid or about the future of the ranch. And he\u2019s already resigned himself. There\u2019s some power in that. When you\u2019re like, <em>Okay, well, I\u2019m done. I\u2019m going to do the best I can to push my idea forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a aria-label=\"\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Star Kelly Reilly on Season 5: \u2018We Get to See Beth Squirm Out of a Few Things\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/yellowstone-season-5-kelly-reilly-interview-beth\/\">\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kelly-Reilly-Yellowstone-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Star Kelly Reilly on Season 5: \u2018We Get to See Beth Squirm Out of a Few Things\u2019\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>In your estimation, how much of this is Jamie and how much of it is him being controlled by Dawn Olivieri\u2019s character Sarah Atwood?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this fascinating thing where it\u2019s both. Jamie has been used his whole life, he knows what being used feels like. It\u2019s different coming from Sarah because she he\u2019s attracted to her. And he also is realizing that that\u2019s the world he may be meant for. He\u2019s been drawn in by her but also realizing that they have something to offer him as well. It\u2019s, I think, more transactional than it may appear, because Jamie may be playing it smart and not trying to reveal too much himself about what he wants out of this. And maybe that\u2019s what we see at the end of that scene when he realizes that I\u2019m going to have to kill Beth, that this is was my plan if I needed to do that. I need help. Can you help me? Who\u2019s going to come out on top? It\u2019s probably them. By submitting to this, he is both trying to get what he wants finally, through them instead of the Duttons but also resigning his fate. It\u2019s a puzzle she but she\u2019s definitely focusing it by what she\u2019s saying to that push that power in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can you tease about the second half of the season?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t tease anything because I don\u2019t know anything yet but I wouldn\u2019t say if I did because that\u2019s part of the joy, right? It\u2019s frustrating but part of the joy.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYellowstone\u201d returns to the Paramount Network this summer.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a aria-label=\"Helen Mirren Joined \u20181923\u2019 Without Reading a Script: \u2018I Signed On Without Knowing What I Was Getting Into\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/helen-mirren-yellowstone-1923-interview\/\">\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1923-Helen-Mirren-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Helen Mirren Joined \u20181923\u2019 Without Reading a Script: \u2018I Signed On Without Knowing What I Was Getting Into\u2019\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/yellowstone-season-5-jamie-beth-fight-wes-bentley-interview\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Drew Taylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Star Wes Bentley on Jamie\u2019s Shocking Showdown With Beth: \u2018If It Hurts, Fine, We\u2019ll Get Over It\u2019 And where does Jamie go from here? Paramount Part of the fun of \u201cYellowstone\u201d Season 5 was to watch Jamie (Wes Bentley), the adopted son of John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and mortal enemy of John\u2019s biological daughter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[881,534,27833],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bentley","category-financial","category-yellowstone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}