

“John’s sons aren’t really stepping up with the way John would want them to when it comes to running the ranch, so if somebody is going to run it at some point down the road, potentially it could be Rip,” he says about Dutton sons Jamie and Kayce (Luke Grimes). With his personal life now galloping ahead at a steady pace, the biggest change viewers will see from Rip this year will be his evolving role with the ranch.

So it’s that sense of having the public in that place that he just doesn’t like, and will never like.” “When I talked to Taylor about it, it was really that idea that the public has infiltrated this hollow ground where people were never allowed. “It’s the idea that there are all these people in his backyard, which has been this private place his whole life,” explains Hauser. He predicts that John will lose the ranch, and that will weigh on Rip as the season goes. But, as he points out in the premiere while Beth enjoys the inauguration party thrown for John at Yellowstone, Rip is worried about the larger changes ahead. “There is one moment this season that I won’t give away, that Rip definitely is turned off by with Beth - but, not totally,” says Hauser, hinting at what’s to come from his formidable partner in crime. With Jamie as Attorney General and now totally under their thumb, Montana Governor John Dutton and his new chief of staff, Beth, can harness their power towards the only thing that matters: Keeping their cattle ranch in the Dutton family name. When she approaches him with guilt over how much time they lost together because of her actions, he begs her to find herself a new target, so she stops beating herself up over the past.īeth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) in the premiere Courtesy of Paramount Networkīeth does heed her husband’s advice, as she sharpens her daggers for her brother, Jamie (Wes Bentley), and continues to blackmail him so he will fall in line with her and John’s goals. Their version of peace instead comes during an intimate conversation between the pair after viewers watch a flashback of how Beth would mistreat Rip during their younger years. But I don’t know if he has the ability to write them at peace totally, it’s just not in the cards.”

There are all these colors within the scenes. Everything we do, there is emotion, there is love, there’s tension. Taylor doesn’t write in a way for us ever to be totally settled in, and that’s part of the reason I like his style of writing, and I know Kelly does, too. “But I kind of dig that Taylor didn’t all of a sudden spin Rip and Beth’s relationship on its heels and make it more stressful now that they’re married. “I think it’s a little uncomfortable for him,” says Hauser of the living arrangement, with a laugh. Now, he and Beth, and the boy who is living with them Carter (Finn Little) - “Don’t call me mama,” Beth has made clear - are settling into married life under patriarch John’s roof on the family’s cattle ranch. As part of last season’s sweeping attack on the Dutton family, Rip’s Yellowstone cabin was burned down. Things are good with Rip and Beth, who got married in an impromptu ceremony in the season four finale and who open season five playing their version of house. The fervor around the initially star-crossed lovers has grown so intense now five seasons into the hit Paramount Network neo-Western, that fans nearly revolted when they thought the show’s social media account was hinting at trouble in paradise.ĭon’t worry, says Hauser. That cowboy, played by Hauser, and the daughter to Kevin Costner’s patriarch, played by Kelly Reilly, have emerged as TV’s couple to watch. Paramount Network President Says They're "Very Confident" Kevin Costner Will Continue With 'Yellowstone'
