Kingdom Come

Kelly Reilly has become a sensation for her turn as Yellowstone's Beth Dutton, the deliciously wicked daughter of a Montana cattle baron. Now, as the family saga reaches its dramatic finale, the actress is ready to shed her alter ego. Or is she?

- LEENA KIM

"I have been asked to go on Cameo for, like, a lot of money," Kelly Reilly says, referring to the platform where fans can pay to have celebrities record personalized video messages. "But they don't want me going on as me. They want Beth Dutton telling them to go fuck themselves."

It's a testament to Reilly, who is so uncannily convincing as the self-destructive, acid-tongued, Tito's-swilling tour de force she plays on Yellowstone that the show's rabid legion of fans have trouble separating the actress from her character-or simply refuse to do so. They call her Beth on the street. They come up to her and ask to get a drink (the answer is always a polite no thanks). When they found out Reilly was actually British, all hell broke loose (Google it).

But considering the fact that the actress, 47, has been in this business for three decades (and that Yellowstone is, well, not reality), it would be more than fair to expect people to know these things. She doesn't see it that way. "I quite like that they don't know my actual name. I'm very private. I don't want people to know where I am, what I'm doing, my inner workings," she says. "In a time of oversharing, it feels rebellious to hold back."