Actor Ed Harris said he hasn’t been happy with his role on the Taylor Sheridan drama “Dutton Ranch” and even considered breaking his contract to get out of it.
The 75-year-old star plays Everett McKinney, an ally to Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler, on the popular “Yellowstone” spinoff show. But he told Variety he believed the role was going to be more significant, which led to negative feelings.
“Midway through the first season, I was ready to say, ‘get me the f*ck out of here,’ to tell you the truth,” Harris said on the red carpet for Apple TV’s “The Dink.” “I didn’t feel I was being used. I felt very misled. Prior to signing on for it, I was talked to quite a bit about what the season was, and what my character was going to do, and that I was one of the four main characters. And that wasn’t really the case.”
Ed Harris says he felt “misled” about his “inconsequential” role on “Dutton Ranch,” and that halfway through filming Season 1, he was telling his team to “get me the f— out of here.”
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“I said, ‘I’m feeling underused and inconsequential,’ and they kind of went, ‘Oh,’” Harris said. “I’m being told my character will have a little bit more to do [in Season 2]. I was just a little frustrated, to tell you the truth,” he added, saying his commitment was for two seasons.
“When I watched the season, it’s fine, it’s pretty good. It seemed like I was relatively important to the story, but the doing of it didn’t feel that way,” he explained. “What really pissed me off, to tell you the truth, is the first episode, or the second, they told me before I got to sign on that you get to sing in the bar … and they cut it! They said it was too ‘up’ for the dark ending of the episode … I’m like, ‘F*ck you people!’ That, to me, is reason enough to say, ‘I’m voiding my contract.’”
Sheridan has been criticized for underutilizing big stars in the past and later expanding their roles, which is what he did with Demi Moore on “Landman.”
“The critics are going to come after me. I’m underutilizing [Moore], can’t write for women, all this nonsense. Then I’m going to kill your husband and you’re going to have to run the oil company. The critics and me … I don’t care what they think, and it annoys the sh*t out of them that I don’t care. I’ll be the first to tell you that there are things that I do that rage-bait them a bit, and this is one of them. F*ck ’em, honestly,” he said last month, as The Daily Wire previously reported.
“Dutton Ranch” debuted on Paramount+ in May.
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