'Yellowstone' star Wes Bentley says he will 'celebrate' the series ending, confirms filming for the final episodes has yet to begin

• "Yellowstone" star Wes Bentley said that he will both "miss" and "celebrate" the show being over.
• He told The Hollywood Reporter that he's been struggling to "shake" his character when not filming.

Wes Bentley has said that he has mixed feelings going into the final episodes of "Yellowstone," mostly because it's been so long since he last stepped onto set and he doesn't yet know when he will be back.

"I will miss it, but I will also celebrate it being over," the 44-year-old actor said in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

The actor, also known for his roles in "American Beauty" and "The Hunger Games," has been portraying Jamie Dutton in the Paramount Network drama since it debuted in 2018 and went on to explain that it hasn't always been the easiest of roles in more ways than one.

"Jamie stays with me. I don't always want him there," the 44-year-old actor said. "When I see people talking about method acting, my experience is that I'm trying as hard as I can to shake him."

Bentley then alluded to the protracted behind-the-scenes fallout between lead star Kevin Costner and the drama's cocreator and showrunner Taylor Sheridan, which has caused production delays.

"It's been tricky though, because of the length of time," he said. "Because of the dynamics. I don't know what they are. I'm sort of on my own here. I don't really know what's going on."

"Life happens and it drifts a bit. But I have a feeling it's so ingrained that once we start really gearing up, it will all just come flooding back, and be overwhelming again," he added.

The neo-Western drama, which also stars Cole Hauser, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Kelsey Asbille, and Gil Birmingham, aired its season five midseason finale in January and is set to return to screens in November to wrap up for good.

However, Bentley confirmed in the interview that the second half of season five — which audiences were initially promised would air "this summer" — has not yet started filming, nor has he been given a start date or seen scripts.

"I truly don't have a clue where it's going," he said when asked about scripts. "I haven't seen or heard anything."

Elsewhere in the interview, Bentley said that the cast "don't have a date of when we're returning" despite being six months out from the new proposed air date.

When asked whether he anticipated the abrupt decision to end the show with its current season, or if he thought there would be many more seasons, he responded: "I could see both happening, and it's kind of been that way the whole time."

"You never really know who is going to be in or out or, the way shows go now, who is going to die and what season. You are half mentally prepared for that happening at any moment."

"But as a whole, you just never know," Bentley continued. "I've always been prepared for some version of the show ending or I'm out of it, or Kevin decides to go do other things and he's out. You just know the business and always expect the craziest thing to happen. And often, it does."

On what it will be like to finally find out how Sheridan decides to wrap up the Dutton saga, the actor shared: "There is both relief and trepidation because we put so much into this."

"You feel like it's a part of you. Whatever the outcome is, it's a part of you. So that trepidation is there, that sort of fear of the unknown," he continued. "But I am excited to see the culmination of all of this. What is the resolve here? Especially with John."

"I'm intrigued like everyone else," Bentley added.