Cole Hauser Dutton Ranch Texas Heat Cut Into 25-Pound Rip Prep
Cole Hauser said cole hauser dutton ranch texas turned into a temperature test when the 51-year-old struggled to keep weight on while filming the new Yellowstone spinoff. He said the heat made that part of playing Rip harder than usual, even before the production ran into winter weather.
106 Degrees in Rio Paloma
106 degrees is what director Christina Alexandra Voros said the first week of shooting reached, and Hauser said, "I was trying to keep weight on." He added, "I mean, I usually put on about 25 pounds [to play Rip], but it was hard to keep it on."
Rip, Beth, and Texas
Six years in Montana gave Hauser a different baseline before Dutton Ranch moved Beth and Rip to Rio Paloma, Texas. He said, "It's like going to the moon for these characters," and added, "They don't know the land or the people or the environment." Kelly Reilly put the change even more bluntly: "They don't know who these guys are. They don't know what they're dealing with," a line that fits the premise and the production problem at the same time.
Four Days Lost to Ice
Four days of shutdown followed when an ice storm hit, and Voros said, "We finished the show in March and we got shut down for four days because of an ice storm. So we had every weather emoji over the course of shooting" and "Our crew is really intrepid. Our cast is really intrepid. We got through all of it, but it wasn't easy." That mix of punishing heat and a weather stop explains why the series is arriving with more behind-the-scenes strain than the usual franchise extension.
Friday Episodes on Paramount+
Fridays are when new episodes of Dutton Ranch premiere on Paramount+, and the production story now sits beside the screen story: Hauser and Reilly also took on more responsibility as executive producers. Hauser said, "It was more responsibility, to be quite honest, which I think Kelly and I took on and enjoyed, for the most part," and added, "We put a lot of work into the continuation of the show with [director, cinematographer and executive producer] Christina Alexandra Voros, with [showrunner] Chad Feehan and everybody else that was part of it."
