-You look good, bud. You look good.
-Thank you, sir. -Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Thanks for being here. How does it feel to be on
one of the biggest shows, I mean, ever?
Right now, that's -- it's --
"Yellowstone," is -- it's beyond anything.
It's unbelievable. -How does it feel?
Pretty damn good. -Yeah, it does, yeah.
[ Laughter and applause ] Yeah.
-How does it feel?
-Last season premiere had over 14 million viewers, by the way.
-Not too shabby. -No, it's not shabby at all.
-Yeah.
-And everyone's a fan of the show.
And I was talking to you backstage and I said,
"Is there any fans you were like, 'Oh, I didn't know
they would be a fan.'"
But you were like, "Well, Drake is a giant fan."
And I was like, "Is that right?" -Yeah, that's a bit strange.
I didn't see that one coming. -No.
-No, a buddy of mine, Jake, said Drake, you know,
wants a pair of boots for his birthday,
and I was like, "He actually rides?"
Like, "What are you talking about?"
And he's like, "No, no, he doesn't ride.
He just wants a pair of boots, and he wants you to ride
in the boots and give them to him."
And I was like, "Fair enough." [ Laughter ]
-That's what Drake does. -Yeah, I mean, you know.
-And you actually did it. Here you go.
-Yeah. -You sent him a pair of boots.
There you go. "Happy birthday!
Rip." There you go.
You're a man of your word.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I might call on you, Drake. -Yeah.
-I might call on you. -Drake's actually a good actor.
Do you know -- maybe -- -I'm not aware of that.
-He is, yeah. "Degrassi" is where he
kind of got his start. -Oh, really?
-Yeah. I'm just saying if there's room
for a cameo, would you be down for that?
-Hell yeah. -A Drake cameo?
-Bring it. -Yeah, let's do it.
Drake in "Yellowstone"?
[ Cheers and applause ]
You're great as Rip Wheeler.
Was it -- Was there any other character
or anything you went in to read for,
you're like, "Oh, I think I should do this one,"
or are you like, "No, this is my character"?
-You know what? I looked at the Dutton,
you know, family, and, to me, I thought they were all great.
Obviously, you know, Wes is phenomenal and Luke.
But what resonated to me was Rip.
And, you know, he has a darkness that I love
and a passion with Beth.
And I just thought, you know, this is a character
that not only can grow, but there's tons of colors in him.
So -- and as an actor, that's kind of what you dream of, so...
-Yeah. I mean, did you know
that your character would be -- become a heartthrob?
-No, Jimmy. -Yeah.
-I didn't know that. -Yeah, you're kind of --
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That's a bit of a shocker.
-That's -- That's kind of fun.
People are dressing up as you for Halloween.
I'm sure you saw that.
-I saw that in New York, actually, the other day.
There was a guy walking down the street.
I rolled down the window, I go, "Rip!"
And he turned, he goes, "Yeah!"
-Oh. [ Laughter ]
Not bad. -I was like, "Okay.
He doesn't even know it's me."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
If you heard someone drive past you and yell, "Rip"...
-Yeah. -Yeah, and you said, "yeah,"
that was actually Rip. -Yeah.
-Yeah, that was -- [ Laughter ]
Actually, Chris Pratt dressed up as Rip Wheeler.
-Who is that? -Yeah.
You ever heard of this guy? -Oh, my God.
Hold on a second. [ Laughter ]
Looking good, kid. -Yeah, he is looking good.
Looking good there, guy. -Well done.
-Yeah. -Well done.
-Look at -- Look at this.
This is how you grow a beard, ladies and gentlemen.
That's the real deal. -He's doing all right.
[ Cheers and applause ] You're doing all right.
You're a little patchy here.
We could probably stipple in a little bit,
maybe paint it in a little bit.
-Yeah, you can't even look at these sides here.
-Don't worry. I've got someone in the back.
He'll take care of you. -Something to fill it in here.
Next time you come on, I'm gonna have a full-on fake beard.
-Let it go, babe. -Really?
-It's Christmas. It's the holiday season.
[ Laughter ]
-Do you think I'm -- maybe I'm -- am I Santa?
[ Laughter ]
-Babe, you can be whatever you want.
-Yeah, exactly. Do you groom your stuff?
Do you, like, comb it and -- -No, I let it go.
-Do people -- I found that people started giving me stuff,
like combs and oils. -No, no, no.
Don't do it. [ Laughter ]
-Try to be a man and just let it go.
-What do you mean? -It's okay.
-I think you oil it down. -Mm.
-Maybe the ladies like it. I don't know.
-Whoo! [ Scattered cheers ]
-Is yours soft? Does your wife like it?
-Yeah, touch it.
[ Laughter ]
-Ooh, yours is very soft.
[ Laughter and applause ] Wow.
-Very sexual. -Wow.
[ Both laugh ]
Let's write that into a scene in "Yellowstone."
That's perfect. I like that.
Oh, that was nice. You're very soft.
-"That was nice." [ Laughter ]
What are we doing? -"What are we doing?" yeah.
Whoever thought we'd touch each other's beards?
-In front of a bunch of people. -Yeah, millions of people.
-Yeah, I love that. -Yeah, exactly.
Can we say what's going on in season five in "Yellowstone"?
-Sure. -Yeah.
What is -- -What is going on?
-That was -- I meant that as a question.
-Fair enough. -Yeah.
-Well, this year, there's more Beth and I,
which I hope everybody is excited about.
-Of course. -We're married now,
which is gonna be interesting. -Yeah.
-A lot more kind of responsibility on Rip,
you know, obviously, with John being the governor.
So more responsibility as far as the ranch is concerned
and being the foreman and running the ranch.
And, you know, Taylor did a phenomenal job,
again, writing this year. -Yeah.
I don't remember your background, but are you from --
Do you know how to ride a horse? And...
-Born in Laurel Springs on a ranch.
-Oh, you did, yeah. -And then Oregon, Florida,
back to California. -No way.
-And now Montana and back to Florida.
-Wow! -So, yeah.
-Full circle. -Yep.
-Yeah. Show 'em how it's done.
I want to show everyone a clip. Here's Cole Hauser
in the season five premiere of "Yellowstone."
Take a look at this.
-And when this gets going and this gets going, too --
-But I robbed us of so much time together,
because I was...
It's still robbing us.
-Mm. Whatever it took, I don't need.
I'm happy, Beth.
With you, with life. Everything's good.
-But we needed what I took.
-Listen, come here. Come here.
Oh, baby.
[ Sighs ]
You need to find somebody new to fight.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Cole Hauser, everybody.
Season five of "Yellowstone"
premieres November 13th at 8:00 p.m.
on Paramount network.