‘Yellowstone’ stars Luke Grimes and Wes Bentley don’t sugarcoat ‘surprising’ series finale: ‘Heartbreaking’

The sun is mounting connected nan ranch.

After 5 seasons, the deed ranch play “Yellowstone” is ending. The 2nd half of nan 5th and last play premieres Sunday, Nov. 10 (8 p.m. connected Paramount). 

Luke Grimes, 40, who stars arsenic Kayce Dutton, told nan Post that nan ending is, “Profound, beautiful. Heartbreaking.” 

Wes Bentley, 46, who stars arsenic Jamie Dutton, told The Post, “I’m astir apt for illustration a batch of nan fans wherever it’s been truthful overmuch clip and there’s truthful galore different [possible], endings, I’ve  thought astir them each before.”

The “American Beauty” character added, “But moreover then, it still amazed maine successful nan measurement [creator Taylor Sheridan] wrote it. I deliberation nan fans are going to beryllium excited, because it’ll beryllium astonishing successful a batch of ways.”

The deed cowboy play premiered successful 2018 and has attracted 17 cardinal viewers, according to Paramount. It follows nan Dutton family, owners of nan largest ranch successful Montana, including patriarch John (Costner) and his big children Kayce (Luke Grimes), Jamie (Wes Bentley), Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Beth’s husband, Rip (Cole Hauser). 

Where nan show near off, John was nan Governor of Montana and Jamie had a full-fledged villain arc, moving against his family. 

“It’s a batch of nosy playing nan antagonist successful this story, and peculiarly because he’s a analyzable antagonist and group person analyzable feelings astir him,” said Bentley.

“So, often [fans] can’t conscionable say, ‘you’re nan bad guy.’ But, they alternatively want to person a therapy convention and effort to observe what’s messed up astir Jamie and really tin we hole him. And they’re really concerned. So it’s funny that they’ll dainty him for illustration nan bad guy, but yet they still want to hole him.” 

The stars said that everyone sewage affectional connected their last time of filming. 

“There was a batch of crying, for sure,” said Bentley. 

Kelsey Asbille, 33, who plays Kayce’s wife, Monica, said that connected her past day, “I was conscionable a blubbering mess. I was disfigured crying….The actors were giving speeches, which is my worst nightmare. I blacked out.”

Grimes said that he teared up, too. 

“I decidedly had my moments…being a dude and all, I support my emotions astatine bay successful beforehand of people. But driving home, it conscionable benignant of deed maine that that’s been nan past clip I was going to thrust location from that set. And it was benignant of a large deal.” 

He added that nan show has been a 1 of a benignant experience. 

“Any clip we sewage to do immoderate of nan large cowboy worldly – for illustration connected horseback pinch cattle – pinch a batch of nan formed and a batch of nan existent cowboys, there’s nary measurement to clone moving cattle. Or CGI cattle. So we’d really conscionable person to get connected [horses] and do it.”

He added, “I don’t cognize immoderate different measurement successful my life successful which I would person had that experience.” 

Grimes said nan show’s ending amazed him. 

“But it besides felt right. It felt for illustration that’s precisely what should person happened. Taylor [Sheridan’s] talent arsenic a writer is that it’s ne'er what you expect, but it’s ever nan cleanable thing.”