Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser first rode onto our screens back in 2018 as Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler, the combustible power couple at the centre of Taylor Sheridan’s Montana-set ranch drama Yellowstone. He had the heavy, simmering menace of Tony Soprano in a cowboy hat; she was the whiskey-swilling firecracker with one-liners that could cut you in half. Thanks, in part, to the drama’s MAGA-friendly mix of sex, guns and land ownership, it drew a fiercely loyal audience far beyond the usual prestige-TV crowd and has gone on to spawn an empire of prequels and spin-offs. Now, Beth and Rip have a show all of their own: Dutton Ranch.
As a couple, Beth and Rip share an undeniable chemistry that helped anchor Yellowstone and provided a brief respite amid all its brutal violence and betrayal. But when I meet the two actors in a posh London hotel room, they make an unlikely pairing.
