Yellowstone actors Kelly Reilly and Jefferson White recently revealed some frightening experiences from the sets of the hit Paramount series. These moments involved filming scenes alongside wild animals. Reilly recalled working with a pack of wolves, while White shared his experience acting opposite a bear.
Kelly Reilly discusses working with real wolves in Yellowstone
During a cast dinner at Delilah at Wynn Las Vegas for the launch of the official Yellowstone podcast, Kelly Reilly and Jefferson White spoke about filming scenes that involved potentially dangerous wild animals.
Reilly recalled that she had to run toward a pack of wolves during the first season of the show. She said the crew assured her it would be safe and that measures were in place to pull her out if something went wrong. Still, the experience was unsettling. “I’m like, well, don’t you think their most inner instincts might come out when there’s a woman with a bottle of whiskey running up to them?” she recalled (via PEOPLE). “They were like, ‘Don’t worry, we’ve got these like invisible pieces of cord, so if they do run at you, that will trip them up.’”
Reilly said she could not see the cord. “That’s not going to stop a wolf, let alone his 12 mates,” she said. “But we went for it, and it was pretty terrifying, I have to say. I’m in the middle of Montana, and I’m running directly at a bunch of wolves.” She jokingly added, “I’m really brave.”
Reilly was not the only cast member to face a tense animal encounter. Jefferson White recalled a scene in which a bear was supposed to chase him. “We shot it in like late November, so it was hibernation season. So this bear was like the laziest bear you’ve ever met,” he said. “They kept trying to antagonize the bear to get it to chase me.”
When the bear did not cooperate, the production came up with another solution. “What they ended up doing was stuffing my pockets full of chicken,” White recalled. “So every pocket on my body was stuffed full of shredded chicken to try to get the bear to chase me.”
The first episode of the official Yellowstone podcast will drop on Friday.
Originally reported by Sourav Chakraborty on ComingSoon.
