Yellowstone director Christina Voros revealed the secrecy surrounding the ultimate season goes all the best way to the highest — and he or she was the “gatekeeper.”
“Half the forged doesn’t know what occurs,” Voros instructed The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, November 5, explaining that she and creator Taylor Sheridan determined to maintain the ultimate six scripts beneath lock and key.
Voros, who directed 4 of the six episodes for half 2 of the farewell season, stated, “It was all borne out of defending what Taylor and this forged and this household of creators has constructed through the years, and realizing how a lot anticipation there was for these scripts.”
She continued, “The power round it was extra about defending it for the viewers than it was some clandestine factor, and we went to nice, nice lengths.”
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As a substitute of utilizing a standard script coordinator, Voros stated she “took over” and did “redactions for each forged member” to maintain the plot personal.
“Many of the forged solely bought the scenes they had been in,” she shared. “So for a big portion of the forged, even for a few of our seven-year veterans, they are going to be studying what occurs when the present premieres.”
Voros famous that after they began taking pictures the again finish of the season, solely she and her first AD, Kether Abeles, had entry to the scripts. Producers and forged members had been stored in the dead of night till they got here to set to shoot.
Sheridan, who writes all of the scripts, was a part of Voros’ unique membership from the beginning, as was director Michael Friedman.
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“The forged of the Duttons themselves are within the secret membership,” Voros stated, referring to the leads. “However for probably the most half, individuals knew the scenes they had been in.”
Yellowstone follows the Dutton household, led by patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and his children, Beth (Kelly Reilly), Jamie (Wes Bentley) and Kayce (Luke Grimes).
When Costner, 69, introduced in June that he was not returning for 5B, Voros stated it heightened the staff’s selection for privateness for the top of the potential collection. (The primary half of season 5 concluded in January 2023.)
“It was an ideal storm, actually. There’s a lot anticipation. There was a lot within the press about Kevin,” Voros stated. “And once you make a present that has such a beloved following, everybody goes to have their concepts about the way it ought to finish.”
The director referred to as the ultimate chapter “lovely and shocking and surprising and riveting,” partially as a result of it’s the top of an period. (Voros famous that she doesn’t know whether or not there might be a season 6 after rumors surfaced that Reilly and Cole Hauser could lead on extra episodes.)
“You might be coping with a forged of actors who know their characters in addition to Taylor does, and who’ve this complete lifetime of labor that they’ve put into constructing these roles,” Voros gushed. “The performances this yr are simply distinctive.”
The forged’s skill to thrive with out prying eyes was made potential due to Voros’ dedication to maintain all the things separate. That included treating each scene as a “closed set.”
“We had code phrases for issues. There have been scenes the place we had loads of extras the place we shot a distinct model of the scene,” Voros recalled. “We’re so fortunate to have so many nice background artists come via the present and actually make the world actual for us — however you don’t need 150 individuals in an area to go dwelling and inform their households what they did that day.”
To keep away from a leak, she stated, “There have been some locations the place forged discovered variations of what their dialogue was to guard and divert from what individuals would possibly suppose was taking place.”
Voros in contrast the set guidelines to “COVID protocols” the place if somebody didn’t have entry, they couldn’t spill the small print.
“It was by no means out of a worry of anybody within the household not defending the story. It was extra that, if you already know one thing, you would possibly by chance point out it,” the filmmaker defined. “We had been simply defending the forged and crew from even having that info, so we didn’t have to fret about whether or not or not they had been preserving some issues secret.”
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With regards to what followers will see when season 5 returns on Sunday, November 10, Voros wouldn’t say whether or not John might be taken to the “prepare station,” i.e. killed and buried by the Duttons. Nonetheless, she teased that John might be “integral” within the last episodes.
“I feel to say any greater than that might probably compromise all of the work that went into redacting the scripts!” Voros laughed. “However I feel the rationale individuals are questioning, ‘Is he, isn’t he? The place is he, the place is he not?’ is as a result of he’s the patriarch and his presence is an integral part to the story. John Dutton continues to be central.”
She added, “The beating coronary heart of this season is household. Taylor’s writing all the time touches on these matters. … I feel in some ways, this season is full circle. It comes again to the household that all of it started with.”
Yellowstone 5B premieres on Paramount Community Sunday, November 10, at 8 p.m. with an encore two hours in a while CBS.