YELLOWSTONE Star Kelly Reilly Covers Town & Country’s December-January Issue

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YELLOWSTONE star Kelly Reilly covers Town & Country’s December-January issue photographed by Sebastian Kim and styled by Melissa Ventosa Martin.

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Kelly on keeping her privacy: “I’m very private. I don’t want people to know where I am, what I’m doing, my inner workings. In a time of oversharing, it feels rebellious to hold back.”

Kelly on her relationship with playing Beth Dutton in Yellowstone: “I love gearing up to play her, because there’s an adrenaline to Beth and it’s very energizing. But it’s also incredibly gnarly. I have to hide all of me away to put some of that on. I love her, but I can’t live with her.”

Kelly on being offered the role of Beth in Yellowstone without auditioning: “I didn’t even audition. Then I was like, ‘F*ck, I didn’t audition.’ I was terrified, because I didn’t know how I was going to do it. And it took me a minute to find her.”

Kelly on the importance of complex female characters: “It’s not just about playing strong, capable women. That’s missing the point. Male characters can be messy, but they can still be heroic. Full spectrum. And I think there is a bravery to embracing shadow. How can you be an honest person if you don’t own some of your darkness?”

Kelly on the vicarious thrill of living through Beth’s fearlessness: “It’s a fantasy. But as in all fantasies, there is a little 10 percent that you can distill and inhabit. It shifts the energy a bit: how you own yourself, how you feel about yourself. I have definitely gotten more backbone in my life because of Beth. I didn’t know I could walk into a room and do that. I’m less afraid of a room.”

Kelly on Yellowstone’s immense cultural impact: “I don’t participate in the noise in any way. I stay out of it. The only safe place for me is in the work—and then home with my husband. Very boring. It can become a cyclone of bullsh*t and fakeness, and I know I won’t find my worth in that.”

Kelly on if she would return to play Beth Dutton in a spin-off: “I am definitely interested in Beth, and who she is after some things have happened. Who is she in peace? As an actor you’re like, ‘Ooh, let me at that.’ Wouldn’t it be fun to watch Beth go to therapy?”

Available everywhere by December 3rd.

[Photo Credit: Sebastian Kim/Town & Country Magazine]

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