The rest of season five of Yellowstone will start filming soon.
And Cole Hauser, who plays Rip Wheeler on the hit show, is happy to return to Montana to shoot his scenes he told People on Tuesday.
The actor, 49, is ‘excited to go back to work’ after a very long break. Yellowstone left off on January 1, 2023, with Season 5, Episode 8, titled A Knife and No Coin.
‘It’s been a year and a half,’ Hauser said. ‘I’m excited to see my castmates.’
Hauser did not comment on whether the show’s top star, Kevin Costner, will return to wrap up the show. And he did not state exactly when cameras will start rolling again.
But Cole did say that Taylor Sheridan may get his hands dirty. ‘I think he’s going to direct some [episodes],’ Hauser allowed. ‘So I’m excited about that. Just get back up in Montana and go to work.’
Debuting on Paramount Network in June 2018, the show, co-created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, has garnered critical acclaim.
He is very ‘excited’ to work again with British actress Kelly Riley, who plays his wife, Beth Dutton, ‘and work with her’ again.
Filming went on hiatus just a few months after due to last year’s WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, which lasted until September and November, respectively.
Hauser also remarked that it has been ‘pretty cool’ that the show has so many dedicated fans.
‘It’s always amazing to create a character that really transcends. It’s pretty wild that this show has touched so many,’ Hauser said.
And he feels that the love for Rip shows what ‘people are looking for in this country,’ which is ‘simple, great values’ such as ‘honesty, grit, termination’ and ‘love.’
‘That still is something that people want,’ Hauser added. ‘An American kind of simplicity… a dream of the American man.’
This comes after Yellowstone Ian Bohen, who plays Ryan, told ET Online, that the end of the show will be epic.
‘The fans are going to get the [best] conclusion that could possibly be written,’ he said.
‘Everything will land in a way that is perfectly set.
‘A lot of shows just kind of finish… and they don’t satisfy you. This will be completed in a way that it will make sense.
‘I don’t know that any show has finished this strongly ever. We’re expecting to have the best series finale in history. Overconfident maybe, but I think that’s what it’s going to be. We thank everyone for their patience… It’ll be worth the wait, I promise.’
The cast also includes Luke Grimes (Kayce Dutton), Wes Bently (Jamie Dutton ), Kelsey Asbille (Monica Long), Gil Birmingham (Chief Thomas Rainwater), Wendy Moniz (Governor/Senator Lynelle Perry) and Brecken Merrill (Tate Dutton), among many others.