It’s not easy being a bad guy.
“Yellowstone” star Wes Bentley, 46, said his character Jamie’s bad deeds take a toll on him in “real life.”
“I love challenges and, as an actor, there have been big challenges in my career, but I have never faced challenges like this. And every scene [creator Taylor Sheridan] It was somewhat of a cathartic, emotional challenge, Bentley wrote. told Fox News Digital In an interview published on Monday.
The “American Beauty” actor said, “Jamie is a character I don’t really identify with very well at all, and it’s hard to be with him… He has a lot of baggage, a lot of heavy lifting to carry. Things are there. And so it’s been a real challenge in my real life, but nothing to complain about.”
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The hit ranch drama, now in the second half of its fifth and final season, follows the Dutton family, owners of the largest ranch in Montana, including patriarch John (Costner) and his adult children Kayce (Luke Grimes), Jamie ( Wes Bentley). ), Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Beth’s husband, Rip (Cole Hauser).
According to Paramount, the first half of season 5 was watched by 17 million viewers.
After the first half of Season 5, Costner, 69, left “Yellowstone” Rumors of feud with producer Taylor Sheridan“Yellowstone” returned on November 10 and began the second half of Season 5 on November 10. By killing off his character, John Dutton.
John was fatally shot by a hit man, but A drama was created to make it look like suicide.
jamie was partly responsible, Because his evil girlfriend, Sarah (Dawn Olivieri), arranged it, but Jamie was not directly involved, and she seemed genuinely upset by John’s death.
Still, the show has framed its finale of episodes as a brutal “sibling against brother-sister”. grimes The Post was recently told The series finale of the show will be “heartbreaking”.
Jamie’s sister, Beth, learns that he was involved in their father’s death. In Most recent “Yellowstone” episode On Sunday night, “Change of Apocalypse,” Beth told Jamie, “Seeing me will be the last thing you do while you’re alive. I swear to God, Jamie. I will be the last thing on this planet that your rotten king eyes will ever see. And I will keep smiling.”
Sunday’s episode also revealed that since John was the Governor of Montana and Jamie is the Attorney General, after John’s death, Jamie plans to run for governor to replace John.
earlier this month, Bentley told The Post, “It was a lot of fun playing the antagonist in this story, and especially because he’s a complex antagonist and people have complex feelings about him.”
He said that often, fans can’t say, “You’re the bad guy.”
“But, they want to have a therapy session and try to figure out what’s wrong with Jamie and how we can fix him,” Bentley said.
“And they are really concerned. So it’s funny that they would treat him like the bad guy, but they still want to fix him.
“Yellowstone” airs Sundays at 8 pm ET on the Paramount Network.
