Working with your family is “probably a recipe for trouble,” says “Yellowstone” star Wes Bentley. “But definitely in politics.” That’s the world his character, Jamie Dutton, inhabits in the latest season of the hit television drama.
Serving his father, who was elected governor of Montana, is a trying proposition, particularly since he wanted the job and outside forces want to derail him. Shootouts and chopper assaults? The real story of livestock police beyond 'Yellowstone' In the new episodes, “every scene is a big moment for Jamie,” Bentley says. So the build-up to the second half of what’s seen as the last season of “Yellowstone” continues.
Those relationships For Bentley, who plays a son who doesn’t quite agree with his father (played by Kevin Costner), the series has been a lesson in relationships. “I had a good relationship with my father,” he says, “and I have a good relationship with my kids..
.and I know who I am, for the most part. The hardest thing about Jamie is that he’s an empty vessel and he never got to find out who he really was.
There’s an emptiness and a sort of sadness that permeates everything. I just feel lucky that I don’t suffer through that.” People are also reading.
.. Wes Bentley as Jamie Dutton and Wendy Moniz as Governor Perry on "Yellowstone.
" Paramount Network While keeping a distance from Costner might have been a good way to get into character, Bentley hung out at his trailer. “We talked a lot off camera.
