‘Yellowstone’ Star Wes Bentley Says Taylor Sheridan Already Knows How Series Will End

Although Yellowstone is nowhere close to being over, co-creator/EP Taylor Sheridan might already know how his hit drama should end.

At a panel for the series at the Screen Actors Guild headquarters in Los Angeles Friday, star Wes Bentley (Jamie Dutton) acknowledged that Sheridan already has a series finale in mind for the popular Paramount Network drama, according to Deadline.

“He has said to me, he knows how he wants to end it,” says Bentley. “That was a while ago. I’m sure he didn’t know how we were going to get there but he knows how.”

The actor was joined on the panel by Gil Birmingham (Thomas Rainwater), Kelsey Asbille (Monica Dutton) and Dawn Olivieri (Sarah Atwood).

When asked if he feels like a Dutton (or two) will have to die by the time the show ends, Bentley kept it vague, simply stating “I’m not a Dutton.”

Production on the show will resume later this month to shoot the remainder of Season 5. The stars talked about how Sheridan doesn’t typically reveal where the plot is going ahead of time.

“My first experience with Taylor was on 1883,” said Olivieri, who played Claire Dutton, the sister of Tim McGraw’s James Dutton, in the Yellowstone prequel. She now portrays the vixen who seduces Jamie into calling for John Dutton’s impeachment. “And I gotta tell you, when the director-writer doesn’t share with you how to act, the first feeling is complete insecurity.”

She added: “But that insecurity is real magic because it gives you this extra force that you didn’t have when you started.”

Season 5 of Yellowstone will resume on Paramount Network this summer.