“The cowboy life definitely isn’t for the faint of heart.”
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromYellowstoneseason 5, episode 12, “Counting Coup.”
And now Colby Mayfield.
The cowboys of ‘Yellowstone’.PARAMOUNT NETWORK
The final season ofYellowstoneis racking up quite the body count.
When Carter went to refill the horse’s water, he was cornered.
Entertainment Weeklyspoke with actor Denim Richards about his goodbye.
Denim Richards on ‘Yellowstone’.PARAMOUNT NETWORK
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I feel like I’m still processing this.
DENIM RICHARDS:Yeah, the cowboy life definitely isn’t for the faint of heart.
We don’t always know when the end is.
It was definitely an interesting and sad end, but everything good ends.
Were you given the heads-up before the season began?
How did you find out?
I found out I think about maybe a day before they sent me the scripts.
So this had to have been back in May.
That’s what I hope that we were able to do with Colby the last five seasons.
There are so many ways one could die onYellowstone.
What was your reaction to how Colby went out?
We have this saying that everyone’s going to fall off a horse at some point in their life.
It’s not if, it’s just when and how bad.
That is not a phenomenon.
And so maybe this was those horses' ancestors coming back to get retribution.
But more than anything, it was about as clean as you could possibly do a death.
We’re actually going to shoot it two weeks from now.
So to kind of stay in that pocket was a little bit challenging.
I did want to ask you about the actual filming of it.
Were you really in there with a horse?
What was that like?
There was a real horse in there.
As wild as that horse seems, it’s very in control.
But it was exciting.
And I think that they showed enough of what it was.
Yeah, it was definitely tough when we were doing the rehearsals.
“Do we really need the extra stuff?”
And so much of it was told through the other characters' reactions, which I think worked.
I think that’s part of the thing, right?
This was a challenging season, I think, for everybody.
But it was definitely beautiful to be able to see just the reactions.
It was really a beautiful piece of cinema.
There’s only a couple episodes left inYellowstoneoverall, so were you able to stick around?
I mean, it is not as bad asSurvivor, right?
You’re voted off and you’re gone.
I didn’t leave, but I didn’t really come to set after that.
I think it was when we were all on horseback season 1, episode 1.
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