Shadowing Practice: Kelly Reilly Reveals How She Perfected Her Montana Accent for 'Yellowstone' | EXTENDED INTERVIEW - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

I have so much deep respect for this woman as an actor

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I have so much deep respect for this woman as an actor

and as a human being and just an all around badass.

I am so in love with her.

She's here, it's Kelly Riley!

We did it!

Hi!

Oh my God, you're welcome.

Thank you, Kelly, bye, bye, bye, bye.

We did it, thank you guys.

Oh my God.

Douglas dressed up in his best Western wear for you.

You wanna come up here?

And Douglas was here dressed up with Cole and- I don't know how to handle this situation right now.

It's just, hi buddy.

I said, like, is there any possible chance

that we could do the show together and like talk about the fact that you are not Beth Dutton.

You are good.

That makes me happy.

A little bit.

We will have a bit of Beth Dutton in this, I think.

Well, just hearing your voice right now.

I mean, I couldn't believe it.

I knew that you had an accent.

I knew that you had done the work.

And working on an accent is so hard.

It's such an art because you can't get lost in things and lost in the moment.

Your accent's gonna come up.

You have to be on constant vigilant watch to do an accent.

And what shocked me is, I would have never guessed you had an accent.

Well, that's thanks to my dialect coach because she's amazing, Jessica Drake.

Yeah.

You have a cadence with Beth Dutton that is Western,

Southern Americana, but not, cause Montana's not.

Right, so we were really going for a Montana accent, but she's educated.

She's from a very, very wealthy ranching family.

She's somebody, she's not, I wasn't gonna go like, you know, howdy ma'am.

You know, it wasn't that for me, but I certainly wanted to get that Montana dialect correct.

But for Beth, it was more about the voice because she smokes a little bit, she drinks a lot of bourbon.

Yeah.

So it's a little...

I'm naturally a lot sort of higher pitched than Beth.

And Beth is, you know, she's a bit more like, she comes from here.

She has a rasp.

Yeah.

And like a guttural sound.

And it was, I kind of listened to Kevin a lot because he really deepened his voice for John Dutton.

You're right.

What was one of the first things that you decided Beth Dutton will have this, but she will not have that?

Well, she's written and created by Taylor Sheridan.

He really is, I mean, we sort of Frankenstein her together really, but everything she says, everything she does is from his imagination.

And so when I first got the role and then I first started to play her in season one,

seven years ago, nobody knew it was gonna be this success.

You know?

You mean with its own Monopoly game that I play obsessively?

Yeah.

I take this everywhere I go.

My friends and I play it like ad nauseam.

It's our favorite game ever.

Do you get to be a character?

No, you get to be like a piece.

Okay.

That's a shame.

They should be like little rips and little deaths.

I would prefer it maybe I'll create one.

Yeah, we'll do another addition.

Yes, we do.

But I mean, by the way, notice who's front and center on the box.

Just take a look at the box.

It's like, this is a testament.

When you see this, do you think, oh, maybe I really did a good job.

They've put me front and center here.

So I'm gonna be really honest with you.

I try not look at it too much.

That's okay, I'll stare at it for you.

No, no, it's not necessarily the Monopoly board, but like, as an actor, how do you then begin to go back and play that character if people,

they really have an opinion on her and they love her, the audience.

I've had so many people, they started to, at the beginning, they didn't love her.

I went on a seven year journey, six year journey with the audience.

And once they started to understand who she was, then they kind of got on board with her.

And your risk paid off.

Yes, it was a definite risk.

I definitely had to not care if anyone liked her or not at the beginning, because I knew who she was on the inside.

Which is so hard to do, because I think we all would prefer if people liked and accepted us.

And I think in order to get people really truly behind you,

you have to exhibit a type of strength where you will recruit people to get behind you.

Yeah, and flaws.

You know, there's so many like, and there's an authenticity to Beth that she really doesn't,

she's unencumbered by what people think of her and she's obviously not a real human being.

So there's freedom to be that.

And then Taylor layered her with this sort of hero attribute.

She's sort of the fiercest soldier.

She's probably the one with the most testosterone on the show, but she's innately female.

She's all woman.

And I wanted to make sure that that was- Douglas, you were in the way.

Yeah. But I love you.

I like how his cowboy hat's just coming off.

Yeah.

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As you know, a long night does.

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Yeah.

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It would be very easy to make her a caricature very just hard and tough.

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So I was like, we're gonna do the feminine dresses.

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We're gonna keep her as soft.

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And then so she could be very also soft with rip.

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And I think those choices really pay off in the new season.

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When you come on the screen, you are in that signature dress.

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And I noticed also that you wear a lot of long sweaters, which has a softness to it.

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It's like your cape is of literally a fabric that is warm and tactile.

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Right.

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And then the way that you love Rip.

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Yeah.

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I mean, have you ever had a love like that?

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I have, and he's here.

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What? Where?

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Is he, is he?

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I don't know, he's here somewhere.

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He's probably hiding now.

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He's in the building.

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So yeah, I've been married for 12 years. And yeah.

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How did you guys meet now?

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Yeah, well we met at his brother's wedding.

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Oh, see a friend of a friend, safe.

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Yeah, I was the plus one.

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I was a girlfriend of mine.

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I was in California at the time and there was this wedding in Marfa, Texas.

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And she said, do you want to go on a road trip?

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And I was like, yes.

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And I think her boyfriend was out of town

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so I got to be the plus one

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and I thought I'm gonna go riding because I'm a big horse rider in real life down in Texas.

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And I had just been riding that morning and I still had like leather on my hands.

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I think I was a bit of a hot mess.

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And I went to this wedding and he was there.

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So I was single for a couple of years and I had gone through heartbreak, like we all have.

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And I was just got to the point where I had gone, yeah, this single life is fabulous.

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And I was not looking.

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I was looking before then, but I really wasn't.

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And I honestly thought that he was, I thought he was Texan, the wedding was in Texas.

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He's from Long Island.

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And he's the love of my life.

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And the most beautiful thing that's ever happened to me is my marriage.

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We know the way that, I think one of the reasons why Rip is a beloved character is because he supports you,

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he gets you, and he is the, they're fiercely advocating.

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Yeah.

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What does your husband think of Beth Dutton?

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Well, he gets to have her a little bit.

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Oh, that's fun.

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But not too often.

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She's like, she's, you know, she's a lot to handle.

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He's watched me play roles for years and years.

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And so he knew that Beth meant a great deal to me.

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And I was terrified going into playing her.

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I really wasn't sure I'd be able to do it.

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And I knew what it was required of me and I didn't want to mess it up.

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So I gave it everything.

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And you know, my husband's the first, he just says, well, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work.

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You still get to come home.

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You come home to me. And that freed me.

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It freed me to go, yeah, like, F it.

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Like, I'm just gonna go for it and he'll be home.

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Can I ask, in your process of your extraordinary talent.

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Stop.

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I'm not gonna stop.

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Stop.

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Sorry but you really dig, you know how to create someone that like everybody gets behind, you've proven that.

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So do you bring your personal experiences to not only the character,

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but how you emote in a scene?

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Well, not directly, obviously she's written, her experience is very different.

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We're different animals.

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I love her, I understand her, getting in the skin of this primal woman is a lot of fun.

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She's invigorating, but she's also exhausting.

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And you know, as actors, all we've got is our own experience, our own hearts, our own souls and minds.

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And so when you're drawing on things, it's not like I'm thinking about an experience I've had, but it's there in your DNA.

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It's there in your blood.

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It's there.

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And so when you're moved by something, and I'm very moved by Beth, she breaks my heart.

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I've really, I love her.

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I love her strength, her audacity to survive in the way she does.

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Sometimes I'm blown away by the choices she makes.

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And sometimes I'm like, I want some of that strength.

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I want some of that.

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It's true.

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We can actually, cause I got really excited.

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Cause I was like, oh my God, I'm the same way.

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Like, I'm like my dad left before I was born.

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Roll the cameras, I'm ready, let's go.

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I'm not as good as sitting there going, you know what would be really great because this is what the scene requires.

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Like I'm not that good of an actor where I can be so method.

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I just literally think about something hard that I dealt with and it just gets me there.

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Yeah, I knew who she was.

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I had gone through just before we started filming, the year before we started, I got that job.

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I had gone through some things in my own personal life.

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I was in deep grief and I hadn't figured out who I was beyond that in that moment.

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And I was in a fog at that moment.

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And then this character lands in my lap.

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And I'm like, well, what am I gonna do with this?

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And she became this sort of life raft for me.

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So I got to sort of hide in her for a minute

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while I came back to life and I found my own strength and my own happiness again.

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And so that's what I wish for her, even though she's a make-believe character because she helped me so much, her fierceness.

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I literally got to hide in her.

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I so understand.

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I really do.

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And you bring up a really important point, which is not only can these characters be a life raft and save us,

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they can be a place where we can put our own grief, our own pain, our own heartbreak.

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And you bring up the exclamation point that I didn't even think of.

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Which is, then you actually can take a gift and extrapolate things that do make your own personal life better.

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You can pull from Beth's strengths.

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Oh yeah.

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Some of Beth's sexiness, some of Beth's courage, some of the things she wouldn't, maybe you wouldn't do, but she does and it gives you something in your real life.

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Oh, she's completely gifted me with so much.

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I mean, it's the most challenging role I've ever had, without a doubt.

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She just meant so much to me.

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And I felt everything that she felt and I lost myself in her for all these years.

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I sort of lock, I say that I put her in a box with a padlock, like four padlocks on because she is a force of nature.

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But when I get her out and I miss her, I miss her when I'm not playing her.

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So when I get her back on and I'm, you know, I'm putting the dresses on and the boots and the eyeliner and it's like, all right, let's go.

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And I feel it.

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I feel that power that she has and it's really exciting.

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And it is like that type of performance to be at that level is a heightened state.

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Yeah.

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It really is.

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It's like an adrenaline.

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And that for 17 hours a day, weeks and months and months on end, years on end.

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And I just thank you for donning her,

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for birthing her, for creating her and putting everything you did and all that you deserve to take home with you.

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And I totally know, at seven years old when I did Firestarter, I'll never get that Charlie McGee out of my body.

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I will.

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It does, it, I.

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They move in.

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They move in.

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Yeah.

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And I'm such a geek like Josie Grossie.

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I wanna, you know, take you down.

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If you're bad at mistreating people, I'll fire starter you.

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Yeah, I get that.

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That's in there.

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I can't wait.

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I can pull her out when I need to.

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Oh, yes!

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Give me some Beth Dettin.

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Oh, speaking of, would you do something for me?

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Whatever you need.

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My best friend and I, we have a thing when we play the game and we have merchandise.

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We have t-shirts, we have socks.

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Would you kindly just say that Dan Jenkins' house is my house? Where?

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Right, into the camera.

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Her name is Ember, by the way.

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Ember.

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Which, this one?

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Sure, any one you want.

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Cause I'm gonna play it on a loop for her.

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Dan Jenkins' house is my house.

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You just changed my life, Watson.

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You have the biggest, this is the biggest gift.

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Cole did the same, and I know it's just my tiny little existence, but that was a very big deal in my tiny little world.

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Okay, good.

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Speaking of Cole, actually, he left a question, It's actually called A Question Left Behind.

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But he did it for you.

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Will you take a look?

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Yes.

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Oh my God.

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Okay, here you go.

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Hey Kelly, I have a question for you.

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What is your favorite and most fun scene that we have done together on Yellowstone?

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We've done so many.

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Fun, fun.

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I mean, I have to say Cole and I have a lot of fun together.

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There's a scene, Rip is in Texas.

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He's been gone for three days and Beth can't handle that.

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So she's like, when are you coming home?

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I just got here.

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And then she says, well, I think I'm gonna come down and see you.

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She takes a road trip to Texas from Montana.

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Okay.

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And so this is pre what happened to her father.

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That's right.

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It's in a flashback.

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So she takes a road trip to Texas to see him and he's a little bit surprised at how she shows up.

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So that was quite fun.

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That's a lot of fun.

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Things to look forward to in life.

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But my favorite scene I shot was with him, there's so many, was in season two where he, where she's being attacked.

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Uh-huh.

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Do you remember that?

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Where, and she's, and then he, he, he, like storms through the glass office.

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Yep.

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And he throws this guy across the room.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, that's in this.

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Yeah, and she said you saved me. That office.

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There's something about that.

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Schwartz and Meyer?

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Schwartz and Meyer.

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I'm not kidding.

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Don't ever test me on Yellowstone knowledge.

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No. I, of course, I'm like, oh, the Schwartz and Meyer is a property on the Monopoly board.

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Okay, I, this has just been like such a highlight for me.

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I have waited for the two or three years since we ran into each other at the upfronts.

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And by run into, I mean, I ran up to you.

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I was so flattered, because I'm such a fan of yours and I just, I couldn't believe that you knew who I was.

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Oh my God, I wanted to talk process.

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I mean, what you have created here is, like I said, it's that tour de force for an actor, an iconic character.

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And I cannot wait for the next one you create.

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You are such an unstoppable force.

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Well, she is, I just play her, but she is.

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Guess what?

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She, you know, she wouldn't exist without you.

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It's an honor.

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You did, you are the embodiment of her.

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In fact, I don't know if we have the t-shirt here, impromptor, but I was on the, we went on the, yeah, there you go.

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I mean, this is the character that you created.

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The t-shirt in the Yellowstone shop that you can buy is don't make me go Beth Dutton on you.

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So I gave this, I think it came out, all the kind of, all the stuff started to come out.

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The merch.

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Season two and season three, and everyone was wearing it and dressing up as Beth for Halloween.

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Uh-huh.

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That was weird and fabulous, but.

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A testament to you.

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Well, I don't know, I go, ah, I don't, but I got my mother-in-law that T-shirt.

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Yeah, Kath.

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Well, I don't know if she wears it.

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By the way, I bet she does.

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How could she not be so proud by the way?

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Well, I made you a t-shirt now that you know, you're going on to other things and this will be timeless and forever.

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So it's like- I love it.

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Don't make me go through very long, you know.

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And give you a hug.

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I love your hugs.

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You're so you.

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You're so, oh my gosh, I love you so much.

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Okay, obviously Yellowstone airs Sundays at 8 p.m on Paramount Network.

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And we're gonna go into break with a clip from the show.

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I can't stop smiling.

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Thank you.

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Oh, thank you, Kelly.

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We'll be right back.

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But only did Jamie kill the man.

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He killed everything our father's ever done.

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Everything he's achieved, everything he left to us,

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every memory, he's just killed them all.

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