'Yellowstone' Star Comments on Kevin Costner's Possible Exit

In a new interview, Yellowstone star Dawn Olivieri addresses rumors that Kevin Costner might be leaving the show before the end of Season 5. Talking to the U.K.'s Daily Mail, the actor — who portrays Sarah Atwood on the show — hints that series creator Taylor Sheridan might be planning to write Costner out with a surprise death scene for his character, John Dutton.

"Sometimes we have to own the fact that nothing is forever and impermanence is the single thing we can count on. And that life is like that," Olivieri reflected during an interview at PaleyFest in Los Angeles.

"I believe Taylor to write the rollercoaster," she adds. "I can trust him to do that because why else are you writing?"

Olivieri points out that Sheridan has such a history of writing difficult, surprising scenes that it's what audiences expect of him.

"So however he writes this, it's not going to be for the benefit of everyone at the home to just nicely go in their bed at night and put their head on the pillow and be like: I am happy. That's how he did it," she states. "That is never going to be the case. That's not why he is where he is writing what he's writing."

Backstage drama between Costner and the producers of Yellowstone has been making headlines since February. The Oscar winner has reportedly been unable to come to an agreement over scheduling for the second half of the season due to a conflict with another project of his called Horizon, and they're considering killing off his character and ending the show at the conclusion of Season 5. According to those reports, the network will move on to a new show in the Yellowstone franchise starring Matthew McConaughey.

Olivieri says that whatever happens, the overall Yellowstone franchise — which includes 1883 and 1923, as well as the upcoming 1944 and 6666 — will remain strong with Sheridan at the helm.

‘It will never stop," she shares. "We are going backwards, forwards, to the side (in time) and he is touching on something that affects everybody."

"The names will change. Hotness factors will shift, and Matthew McConaugheys will appear," she adds. "It will just be whatever it needs to be."

A Paramount executive has confirmed that a new Yellowstone spinoff starring McConaughey will move forward, whether Costner returns to Yellowstone or not.

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The massive, historic Texas ranch where the new Yellowstone spinoff Yellowstone: 6666 is filming has sold for just under $200 million, and pictures show a property that is truly part of Texas history.

The 6666 Ranch — better-known as the Four Sixes Ranch — in Guthrie, Texas, dates back to 1870. The ranch centers around a 13-bedroom, 13-bathroom, 13,280-square-foot main residence, which is constructed of quarry rock that was hauled to Guthrie by wagon. The ranch also includes vast, sweeping fenced pastures, farmland, fenced-in pens for cattle, a more recent addition for horses, a water filtration plant that serves the ranch's water needs and more.

There are separate camp manager's homes in both the North Camp and the South Camp of the ranch, which encompasses nearly 225 square miles of land. Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is part of a group of investors who recently acquired the property for $192 million, and he has been shooting his new show out there in recent months.

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Yellowstone star Kevin Costner lives the ranch life when he's off the set of the hit show, too. The Oscar-winning actor owns a 160-acre ranch in Aspen, Colo., that's a spectacular getaway, complete with a main residence, a lake house and a river house.

The luxury retreat also features a baseball field, a sledding hill, an ice rink, multiple hot tubs and views of the Continental Divide. The ranch property comfortably sleeps 27 people, and it's currently available to rent for 36,000 a night.

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The stunning Montana ranch that serves as the setting for the hit TV show Yellowstone offers cabins for rent, and the price includes tours of the set and ranch. Scroll below to see photos of the extraordinary property.