Kelly Reilly is without end modified after enjoying Beth Dutton on “Yellowstone.”
The actress, 47, paid a touching tribute to her character earlier than the collection finale aired on Sunday, Dec. 15 — however performed coy when her followers started guessing how the beloved cowboy present would finish.
Warning: spoilers beneath!
Taking to her Instagram, Reilly wrote, “I’m so deep into another role at the moment about another land worth fighting for in the UK .. but across the pond the finale is happening tonight of the show. Whatever the future holds this is the ending of the show we have been making for the past 7 years.”
She continued, “Whatever the future holds this is the ending of the show we have been making for the past 7 years. Words cannot convey how I feel about the people I got to work and create with over the seasons. I have made true life long friends. The support from the crew and the trust and dedication of the cast. The words I got to say and the woman I got to inhabit. It changed me. It lit me up. It challenged me in every way possible and I will forever be grateful for it.”
Reilly additionally gave “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan a shout-out, thanking him for taking “a chance” on her.
“[He] continued to write [Beth] in ways I got to feel on fire as an actor. Thank you Taylor. Thank you the audience we made it for, for being on this journey with us. We really cared about making something special for you all … Enjoy tonight, get your tissues and your 🥃✌️,” the actress concluded.
Followers flooded her remark part with theories about how “Yellowstone” would finish, and whereas Reilly weighed in, she centered on her character’s evolution.
“She definitely changed. In early seasons [the farm] was a place with too many bad memories. The place haunted her,” she recalled. “She was loyal to her father as she loved him so ferociously but she also felt such responsibility and guilt about the death of her mother, his wife.”
Reilly shared, “It almost became her reason to live to make it right, to do this for him. She became his most loyal soldier. Over the seasons you saw her fall in love with it again. She did it for him. For the land. And for a part of her soul.”
“Yellowstone” viewers had been divided over the finale’s bombshell loss of life, which noticed Beth kill her brother, Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley), with the assistance of her husband, Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser), over the homicide of their father, John Dutton (Kevin Costner).
Jamie’s girlfriend, Sarah Atwood (Daybreak Olivieri), employed a success man to take out John within the opener for Season 5B after Coster exited the present in June.
Whereas loads of “Yellowstone” spinoffs are within the works, there have been rumblings of a potential one that will deal with Beth and Rip following the sale of the Dutton household ranch, which retailers have claimed is formally within the works.
On Sunday, Reilly commented “true” when a fan requested within the spinoff hypothesis was correct.
“I loved this season. There were some really different territories to explore, so I’m not clinging to her,” Reilly informed City and Nation in Nov. about probably reprising her position as Beth. “I’m happy to put her back in her padlocked box.”
She didn’t rule out a return although.
“I am definitely interested in Beth, and who she is after some things have happened,” she shared. “Who is she in peace? As an actor you’re like, ‘Ooh, let me at that.’ Wouldn’t it be fun to watch Beth go to therapy?”
“Yellowstone” aired in 2018. It was shot over 7 years and lasted 5 seasons, with Season 5 being break up into two components.
The collection is at present streaming on Paramount+.
