Yellowstone’s Wes Bentley Defends Jamie — and He Isn’t the Only One: ‘It’s Not Clear-Cut’
Over the course of Yellowstone’s five seasons, Jamie Dutton has done a s–t-ton of terrible things. But portrayer Wes Bentley is still rooting for the black sheep of the family — and he’s not the only one, he tells TVLine. “I find it a lot, actually. Some people clearly see that he is a damaged person who is doing his best to meet what’s expected of him.”
And, it bears mentioning, to survive. Yes, the schemer conspired with girlfriend Sarah Atwood to have his father offed, but John was also plotting with daughter Beth to have Jamie killed. (Sarah Nguyen’s demise was another story altogether.) “Murder I guess we can look away from for a minute,” Bentley says with a laugh, “but yeah, there are people out there who can see what he’s suffering from. That’s what makes it so interesting. It’s not clear-cut.
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“Jamie’s not just a straight-up bad guy,” he continues. “He’s doing these things because the people who he’s appearing to be an antagonist for are they people who are asking him to do the things that are antagonizing them! It’s a dynamic that he can’t get out of. He can’t win.”
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What say you, Yellowstone fans? Do you have any sympathy whatsoever for Jamie?
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