THE PERFECT STORM

Devoted daughter. Loving wife. Cruel force of nature. What's next for Yellowstone's Beth? Kelly Reilly dishes on Season 5

- KATE HAHN

Yellowstone

Seasons 1-4, Peacock

Season 5, Premieres Nov. 13, Paramount Network

"I'VE MISSED PLAYING this character," says Kelly Reilly, stepping away from shooting a scene as human tornado Beth Dutton early in Yellowstone's upcoming fifth season to phone TV GUIDE MAGAZINE from the Montana set. Fans last saw the biz-whiz-a brash, badass daughter who'll do anything to help her rich cattleman father, John (Kevin Costner), keep their massive ranch-in the neo-Western's record-setting January finale. But Reilly hasn't worn Beth's boots since the cast wrapped filming on that episode in 2020. "I'm so excited to be back," she says, marveling that there's still snow on the mountains in the Bitterroot Valley in May. Rest assured, things are about to heat up.

The British actress has read the first six scripts of what will be the longest season yet of Paramount Network's runaway hit: 14 episodes, split into two parts, premiering November 13. "Beth is going into this feeling pretty good about everything," Reilly hints. "She's confident that things are going to be looked after better."

One reason for the optimism: Beth now has her adoptive brother Jamie (Wes Bentley), the acting attorney general, under her thumb. In the Season 4 finale, she cornered him into shooting his biological dad, who'd ordered a hit on the Duttons, and then she snapped a photo of him dumping the body. "There's a bit of the early dynamic coming back into the show, of them having to work together," Reilly reveals. "[Beth and John] are using Jamie to put things through that they wouldn't be able to do. They need him working for the family. It's like working for the mob."