Kelly Reilly and Wes Bentley really ditched fear for their onscreen Beth and Jamie in the Yellowstone finale.
Yellowstone’s executive producer Christina Alexandra Voros told Us Weekly: “Obviously there are places where you will put in their doubles, who have also been with us from the beginning.”
“They’ve learned the way the actors move and have been studying that so you do have that element for places where you want to pull the pad out and someone has to hit the ground and Kelly has 12 more days of shooting and nothing can happen to her. But Kelly and Wes did the majority of that fight themselves,” she explained.
The said altercation takes place during the last episode when Beth (reilly) and Jame get into a violent fight over their family’s farm.
Voros also noted the mental impact of doing such scenes on actors, saying, “Even if they are not taking a punch or throwing one, the energy it takes to keep in that space emotionally is exhausting.”
“So I think what people don’t realize when they see that fight is yes, it looks real and bloody and gruesome, but just staying in that mindset of being this ferocious takes a great deal from the actors to stay in the headspace,” she added.
“Forget about the milk and the bear spray and the stabbing and all that. That’s the easy part,” she hailed the Yellowstone stars. “My kudos to Kelly and Wes for being able to keep in that extreme state of war emotionally throughout that scene.”
