Spoiler alert! Don’t continue reading if you haven’t seen the latest episode of Yellowstone!
Dawn Olivieri, who portrayed Jamie Dutton’s girlfriend Sarah Atwood on season five of Yellowstone, was killed off in the latest episode.
Now, she’s revealing how she found out her character would be shot, and much more.
Keep reading to find out more…
THR asked when she learned she’d be killed off the show, and she said it was when she received the script for the episode, recalling, “It kind of rolls like everybody else’s; you read it, usually. For a long time in my career, I play a really good character to kill.”
Her character in 1883, the Taylor Sheridan Yellowstone prequel, Claire Dutton, also died.
She continued, “Taylor is special, he has been for me, because a death for me just means a life somewhere else, and he immediately moved me to another show. So, it’s a fun thing to read and then be like, ‘Oh, I’m doing a different thing now.’”
And then, it was revealed that her character put the hit on John Dutton, aka Kevin Costner’s character.
When asked if she knew that was the plan for her character, she responded, “No. That I was going to be the most hated villain in all of the world? No, (laughs) I didn’t know that. I did know there was an exit strategy for him, but I don’t think I was supposed to go as soon as I did. I think that was going to happen [with John], but because we had to wrap this all up in lightning speed, I think it had to go down the way it went. I believe I was meant to go into the next season and continue on as a character. So I think because of the situation, everything got changed around. The storyline had to go full throttle to figure out how to tie up every end and move things along. I’m grateful. It’s a pretty monumental role that I think goes down in history in a way because of what happened and how it played out.”