I was like, hey, Im a horse person!
I want to come hang out!'
(you’re free to find a recap of the midseason finalehere.)
Lilli Kay as Clara Brewer in ‘Yellowstone’Paramount
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DEADLINE:So John finds out that his son is trying to impeach him!
Theres some drama with the herd and a potential disease going around with the cattle.
Its sort of like juggling a bunch of disasters that are concurrently exploding in everybodys face.
DEADLINE:At this point, Clara is all in when it comes to John Dutton, right?
KAY: I think so.
DEADLINE:Whats Claras origin story?
KAY: She was his assistant and now shes kind of Johns everything.
Shes the kind of person thats wrangling all the political things that hes dealing with.
But shes able to do it pretty well.
DEADLINE:How does Clara get along with Beth?
Clara gets more and more entrenched in the Dutton familys life.
Beth just got used to having her around.
DEADLINE:How were you first cast?
KAY: Well, its a very weird thing.
Ive sort of been on the edges of it.
Lucky for me, I was a fan and already had family who was working on the show.
I had heard such amazing things from them.
And then a part came along that I might be right for.
Taylor Sheridan had seen my work.
Ive not been able to do jobs with my dad.
It was literally a dream come true.
I was like, oh my God, this is my dream.
It was so lame of me, but also so much fun.
I grew up in LA but I worked on a ranch when I was in high school.
I was a horse kid my entire life.
DEADLINE:Do you know how to cut?
KAY: Yeah, I used to cut.
That was my fun thing that I used to like to do.
But I had a great horse so I looked way cooler than I was.
Thats the best sport.
If you wanna get into a cow sport, thats the one.
You get a great horse and youre like, Im the best.
DEADLINE:Talk about that scene from Episode 7 when you guys were out and about moving the cattle.
Thats when your character got to ride for the first time.
KAY:We got really lucky.
It was beautiful out and we were using a field thats behind the ranch.
But it was so much fun cuz everybody really knows what theyre doing.
As actors we very seldom have skills that are helpful to other departments.
Its nice to be able to help the wranglers and get these cows moving.
Everybodys getting their hands dirty.
DEADLINE:Are the cows friendly?
Can you go up and pet them?
KAY:This is a thing.
I freaking love them, and I think theyre so cute.
But it made me sad cause I wanted to snuggle them.
We had the little calves for the branding scenes.
There was one that I wanted to take home.
Who was that you were making out with, anyway?
KAY: Ill tell you something about that.
We were in our Covid protocol.
It was written that Clara is making out with someone in the background behind John and Summer.
My partners non-binary, so we were like, well its a gender fluid make-out in the background.
We thought, nobodys gonna make a big deal about it.
And then a lot of people made a very big deal about it.
KAY:It was very funny because I did not expect anyone to even really catch it.
And then people were like,lesbians on the range!
It was very, very funny.
But it was a fun little evening.
We got to listen to some really good music and hang out and quietly make out in the background.
Lesbians on the ranch!
DEADLINE:Who made the ultimate call that it was gonna be Juli in the scene with you?
KAY: Im not really sure.
My father was the director.
He was really wonderful and great.
DEADLINE:So going forward, are you gonna be performing any shenanigans for the Dutton clan?
This is gonna get really messy.
Shes in it now and has a real attachment to this family and this life.
She wants to jump in and and defend them.
Im curious to see what lengths she has to go to.
Yellowstonewillreturn in the summer.
