'Yellowstone': Who plays Tate Dutton? Actor Brecken Merrill opens up exclusively with 'Distractify' about the personality's Season 5 tragedy.
Spoiler alert: This article incorporates spoilers for the ones who are not stuck up on Yellowstone.
Being the grandson of John Dutton for sure has its drawbacks.
For the past 5 seasons of Paramount's Yellowstone, Tate Dutton has continued and survived moderately a few harrowing reports. From being kidnapped to turning into the objective of an tried murder, Tate has needed to grow up rapid and is beginning to be informed that being part of the Dutton circle of relatives means that enemies are lurking at each and every nook.
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So, what's Tate's long term on the Yellowstone ranch? Will he overcome the trauma from his past?
In an unique interview with Distractify, actor Brecken Merrill unfolded in regards to the surprising Season 5 tragedy involving Tate and Monica, and what this means moving ahead for his character all over the rest of the season.
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Who plays Tate in 'Yellowstone'? Brecken Merrill dishes on what took place to Tate in Season 5.
In the Season 5 premiere, Tate's mother Monica starts to revel in pregnancy contractions and makes a decision to head to the clinic. While en path with Tate in the automobile, Monica spots a bison in the middle of the road and swerves to avoid the collision. Unfortunately, she crashes directly into an oncoming truck.
Though both Tate and Monica survive the crash, her unborn son — whom she named John — unfortunately dies.
Following the tragic match, Monica and Kayce have been continuing to grieve the loss of their 2d kid. So, how is Tate coping with yet some other devastating circumstance?
"I mean, this is nothing new to him. You know, every single season has been [some] tremendous traumatic event," Brecken defined to us.(*5*)
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But, much like his grandfather and Aunt Beth, Tate certainly knows how to conquer hostile stumbling blocks.
"He's strong," Brecken famous. "He's really strong-minded because of how much he's had to go through. And he has a very, very tough exterior."
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As Kayce, Monica, and Tate continue to deal with their loss, Brecken confirmed that Season 5 will undoubtedly be an "emotional roller coaster" for the circle of relatives.
"There's just been so much negative, traumatic stuff that has happened to these people, and this just adding on to it ... definitely is gonna be a wild ride for the new season," he mentioned.
Seriously, Taylor Sheridan? Can Tate, Monica, and Kayce have a spoil?
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Does Tate die in 'Yellowstone'? Well, maybe just his innocence.
Throughout Yellowstone, Tate has endured to carry a sense of innocence to the Dutton family, and convey out a gentler facet of patriarch John Dutton.
While the character has confronted several life-threatening eventualities, Season 5 might simply in the end kill off the adolescent's childlike perception.
"Every single season, they've just given Tate a bowl of ice cream, and 'oh, everything's good for Tate,'" Brecken stated. "But as he starts to grow up, you know, now he's going to question why his dad is leaving late at night with a gun. Like, he's going to start questioning things. He's going to start unmasking the truth about ... 'Jesus, this ranch life really can be dark sometimes.'"
"Now that he's starting to grow up, he's gonna really start noticing the truth about everything," he persisted. "I think that's the direction Taylor's [Sheridan] going for right now."
Watch new episodes of Yellowstone on Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on Paramount Network.
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