As “Yellowstone” fans proceed to invest about Kevin Costner’s future on the hit Paramount series, his co-star Dawn Olivieri could have just fueled the drama.
When asked by the Day by day Mail in regards to the rumors of Costner, 68, leaving the show, Olivieri, 42, responded: “Sometimes we’ve got to own the proven fact that nothing is endlessly, and impermanence is the one thing we are able to count on, and that life is like that.”
Costner and series co-creator Taylor Sheridan, 52, have allegedly butted heads behind the scenes, leading to reports that the “Silverado” star may soon leave “Yellowstone.” Filming of the second half of Season 5 has reportedly been delayed within the meantime.
The Post has contacted reps for Costner, Sheridan and Paramount for comment.
A Paramount spokesperson told The Post in February, “We’ve got no news to report. Kevin Costner is an enormous a part of ‘Yellowstone,’ and we hope that’s the case for a very long time to come back.”
In the brand new interview, Olivieri reported that Sheridan will “write the rollercoaster” of storylines for Season 5, claiming the drama will shock fans.
“Are you writing so that everybody feels joyful and so they be ok with what you’ve just done to them? That’s not why we watch Taylor Sheridan things,” Olivieri told the outlet. “We watch it because we go, ‘Ooooh, I can’t imagine that just happened. Ooooh, how could he do this?’ Right?”
She teased: “So nevertheless he writes this, it’s not going to be for the advantage of everyone at the house to only nicely go of their bed at night and put their head on the pillow and be like: ‘I’m joyful. That’s how he did it.’ That is rarely going to be the case. That’s not why he’s where he’s writing what he’s writing.”
Olivieri added that there isn’t any changing Sheridan’s mind once he’s decided to ax a personality — claiming “everyone,” including producers, tried to maintain Olivieri’s “1883” character Claire Dutton alive on the “Yellowstone” prequel to no avail.
“I’ve already died once. I attempted,” Olivieri told the Day by day Mail about her “1883” exit. “Everyone tried to alter his mind. I heard after the proven fact that the producers were like, ‘Don’t kill her. She’s really great. We love her character. She’s a robust addition — let’s take her farther on the train.’
“He was like: ‘No, I wrote her to die.’ I even have succumbed to the death of that pen. It was the most effective for that story,” she explained.
In fact, Olivieri was rehired to portray Sarah Atwood on “Yellowstone,” a girl on a mission to bring down the fictional Dutton family.
Though the unique series may evolve, Olivieri believes the award-winning franchise will not be going anywhere anytime soon.
“It is going to never stop. We’re going backwards, forwards, to the side [in time], and he’s touching on something that affects everybody,” she said of Sheridan’s storytelling.
“… The names will change. Hotness aspects will shift, and Matthew McConaugheys will appear. It is going to just be whatever it must be,” she added.
After months of speculation, Paramount recently confirmed that McConaughey, 53, will star in a “Yellowstone spinoff” after his temporary break from acting.
“To go have some structure like, ‘I got a call time, I’ve got lines, I’ve got scenes, I’ve got a personality.’ That seems like a vacation immediately to me,” the actor said this week on the podcast “Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard.”
“The previous couple of years I had a very wonderful time eliminating a number of those filters that include acting,” he added.
“Yellowstone” has sparked a slew of spinoffs, including the prequel “1923,” starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.
