Cowboy Camp
This is going back a bit to "Queer Identities" -- but
in case you all think I make this stuff up!
https://nypost.com/2018/06/18/wes-bentley-went-to-cowboy-camp-for-yellowstone/
The show was shot in Utah and Montana. To help get into character, several of the actors, including Bentley, spent four days in the Utah wilderness - which he refers to as “Cowboy camp.”
“A bunch of the actors went out with some cowboys and spent four days out in the wilderness without contact with the outside world and had a really intense look at what it was like to cowboy as best we could in that short amount of time,” he says.
He’s no stranger to riding horses - he even briefly had his own horses in California - but along with other “Yellowstone” actors such as Grimes (“True Blood”) and Cole Hauser (“Good Will Hunting”), “cowboy camp” allowed Bentley to learn skills such as roping and collecting firewood.
“We’d all be out there grabbing sticks and twigs and maybe the occasional branch off a tree,” he says. “And you feel really tough. And finally one of the real cowboys who was this Paul Bunyan-type guy went over and cut down an entire tree. He brought the whole tree over and he goes, ‘That’s a fire.’ You’re like, ‘OK, this guy is not like me at all.’”
in case you all think I make this stuff up!
https://nypost.com/2018/06/18/wes-bentley-went-to-cowboy-camp-for-yellowstone/
The show was shot in Utah and Montana. To help get into character, several of the actors, including Bentley, spent four days in the Utah wilderness - which he refers to as “Cowboy camp.”
“A bunch of the actors went out with some cowboys and spent four days out in the wilderness without contact with the outside world and had a really intense look at what it was like to cowboy as best we could in that short amount of time,” he says.
He’s no stranger to riding horses - he even briefly had his own horses in California - but along with other “Yellowstone” actors such as Grimes (“True Blood”) and Cole Hauser (“Good Will Hunting”), “cowboy camp” allowed Bentley to learn skills such as roping and collecting firewood.
“We’d all be out there grabbing sticks and twigs and maybe the occasional branch off a tree,” he says. “And you feel really tough. And finally one of the real cowboys who was this Paul Bunyan-type guy went over and cut down an entire tree. He brought the whole tree over and he goes, ‘That’s a fire.’ You’re like, ‘OK, this guy is not like me at all.’”