How Wes Bentley's Darkest Moments Built 'Yellowstone'

  [View in Browser]( [Men's Health]( [SHOP]( [MVP EXCLUSIVES]( [SUBSCRIBE]( [Alternate text] THIS WEEK'S MUST-READ [Alternate text] [How Wes Bentley's Darkest Moments Built Yellowstone]( [How Wes Bentley's Darkest Moments Built Yellowstone]( [Wes Bentley is clear-eyed and smiling, a bit of a scruffy beard blunting the intensity of his face, a gold Virgin Mary pendant around his neck, as he talks fast about how he wound up here, with more than a decade of hard-won sobriety under his belt and a juicy part on Yellowstone, a cable-TV show that’s watched by more people than anything except NFL games. He owes all this, he says, to his wife and his two children, and to 12-step programs, but he also owes it to soccer, which gave him something to focus on, a way to make positive use of all the energy and stamina and drive and desire he’d once put into scoring drugs and getting high. While filming Yellowstone’s first season, Bentley tore his ACL and had to stop playing for a while. But this was a gift, too, because on the Paramount Network series, his character—Jamie Dutton, the Fredo Corleone to Kevin Costner’s cowboy Godfather—lives with an abundance of sadness and has nowhere to put it, and being deprived of his own outlet helped Bentley figure out who Jamie was. “I’d never really explored sadness without a vice,” he says. “In my own life, it would have been drugs, or trying to make people laugh, or being angry. But [to play] Jamie, I had to just be sad.”]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [Meet Ritual: TikTok's Favorite New Supplement Brand]( [Meet Ritual: TikTok's Favorite New Supplement Brand]( [Looking for a multivitamin brand that offers transparency without the B.S.? Ritual is up for the challenge.]( [READ MORE]( [How the Trap Bar Deadlift Can Transform Your Leg Day Workouts]( [How the Trap Bar Deadlift Can Transform Your Leg Day Workouts]( [This variation gives you some key differences from the standard exercise that can pay off for your gains.]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [Alternate text] [The 14 Best Natural Deodorants for Men in 2023, According to Grooming Experts]( [The 14 Best Natural Deodorants for Men in 2023, According to Grooming Experts]( [All paraben and aluminum free.]( [READ MORE]( [The 8 Best Ways to Lose Weight After 40]( [The 8 Best Ways to Lose Weight After 40]( [It doesn’t have to get tougher if you use these tips.]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [Alternate text] [New Balance Is Knocking up to 50% Off Sneakers and Workout Clothes]( [New Balance Is Knocking up to 50% Off Sneakers and Workout Clothes]( [Shop this massive sale while supplies last.]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [My Sexual Desires Have Changed Drastically Since My Wife Gave Birth]( [My Sexual Desires Have Changed Drastically Since My Wife Gave Birth]( ["Psychologically, it’s messing with me that she’s the mother of my child."]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [Improve Sleep With Blue Light Blocking Frames From Men's Health]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection]( menshealth.com ©2023 Hearst Magazines, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019