Warning: This article contains spoilers for the midseason finale ofYellowstoneseason 5.
Jamie Dutton is done.
“‘Oh, you’re gonna try and kill me now.'”
Wes Bentley on ‘Yellowstone’.Paramount Network
But for now, EW spoke to Wesley about Jamie’s latest realization and his journey as a whole.
I’ll say it that way.
At first when I read this, I was like, “Oh man, here we go.”
Wes Bentley on ‘Yellowstone’.ROGER SNIDER/Paramount Network
Maybe he’s testing her out too."
And there’s something there, some evil power-couple thing happening between ‘em.
So I think it’s deeper than just one’s using the other.
Jamie, just on a purely clinical level, does see her as someone he could use if needed.
So you’re not totally off.
By the end he’s saying, “Do you know anybody that can kill my family?”
That’s him revealing what his intentions were.
But I don’t know yet, and I’m excited to find out like everybody else.
I think he has to.
They’re gonna kill him now, like he thought they would if he played the impeachment game.
He’s a chess player.
He’s three steps ahead.
He’s thought it through a hundred times.
“Oh, you’re gonna try and kill me now.”
So my move has to be asking for help killing her.
I don’t know if he could do it with his own hands.
He did kill his own [birth] father, but Beth is closer to him than his father.
You know, they have a close relationship.
Part of the pain and hate between them comes from the loss of that wonderful relationship they had before.
Have you and Kelly had to do stunt training for this sibling rivalry?
[Laughs] Yeah.
And I was telling her, I’ve done a lot and you’re going to be great.
And we just worked through it and she was awesome immediately.
She really took to it.
That’s where the power in Beth comes in, and her physical dominance over him.
She just destroys him, you know, dragging him down the hallway.
That was very hard.
That was the hardest day of all of them.
“Well at least I’ll get this out of it.
I’ll become governor or something more powerful.”
But now that’s not happening, that’s foolish.
Once John stepped in front of him for the governorship, that was it.
So now I think what drives him is revenge.
What drives him is a bit of power to make a move on that ranch.
I think he really wants to have that under his control, and he wants it for his son.
I don’t know about Tate [Brecken Merrill], who knows what he meant by that.
I can’t wait to find out myself, you know?
Yeah, but I’ve been doing that since season 1.
That’s what we do.
Every job’s my last job until the next one.
It’s never steady, as they say.
So I just learned to not expect anything, except enjoy the moments.
And I’ve had so many as Jamie.
It’s like I’ve played many characters in one and I’ve gone so many places with him.
Do you feel like that love and that part of Jamie is still in there somewhere?
Yeah, there is love there.
Kayce is the only one that he feels is on the outside of it.
He doesn’t feel Kayce is a threat to him.
I don’t think he wants to threaten Kayce.
There’s a lot there that we didn’t get to yet.
We need Kayce to step in between his siblings.
He’s unpredictable, but he’s also like the most steady one now.
I feel like I’ve been tracking Jamie and John’s relationship this season through John’s word choice.
His whole life is like, “What does he feel about me?”
But I think he knows now that he doesn’t love him, never will love him.
He doesn’t see him as a son.
What’s great about [showrunner Taylor Sheridan’s] writing is he builds in these complicated things.
And that’s what would happen.
So he is not his father in that sense.
And he told him that, “You’re not my son.”
So Jamie’s clear on it.
Is there a character you’d like to get more scenes with?
I think it’d be interesting with Gil [Birmingham], with Rainwater.
That’s a potential ally.
Now it’s a game of allies.
You’re gaining allies for war.
So is that somewhere he goes?
I’d love to do scenes with him though.
Mo [Moses Brings Plenty] is always a great actor to work with.
But I work love working with everybody.
It feels like I haven’t worked with most of them.
It’s been a vacuum.
I’ve isolated myself in Montana.
I don’t really see them much anymore.
I’m in this cabin in the woods, but I need it, you know?
Because some of these scenes that Taylor gives me, they’re all big scenes.
So it’s like I need to sink so deep into him to bring out the complexity.
Yeah, that’s true.
You never get a calm scene.
No, I’m never just chilling.
It’s the biggest challenge in my career, and it takes the most focus.
I clash with these big characters, and it does require a real spark.
