If I had to wager money on it, I’m not exactly sure how long I’d think filming Beth and Jamie’s finale bout would have taken, but I know I would have overshot the actual timeline of things. When I asked the stunt head about bringing it together, he immediately blew my mind, saying:

We shot it for about a day and a half, and it was a lot, because Taylor wanted to add a lot of blood and stuff as we went along. So there were breaks where we had to add layers to it.

The “stuff” going along with the blood would be the pepper spray and milk that Jamie pours all over his face. I can’t say I’ve ever filmed a fight with milk drying in my hair, but Wes gets that badge of honor.

Yellowstone seemingly worked that scene and other choreographed fights more akin to stage plays, where a lot of the details were worked out in the rehearsal process. Rodriguez continued:

But they rehearsed, so that it was easier to shoot that in a day and a half. Usually on a feature or something, you take at least a couple days to shoot that, but we were able to rehearse it so well, and they knew it so well that it allowed us to shoot it pretty fast and move right through it. But it was pretty intense.

Just in case anyone thinks Wes Bentley might have balked at having Jamie go through getting his ass whooped up on before flat-out dying, Rodriguez shared:

That fight had obviously been building up for five seasons, and it came to that climax, and it turned out really good. Jamie, Wes, is always into it, and always willing to go above and beyond and give it everything he’s got.

Unfortunately for the black sheep of the Dutton family, he literally gave everything he had in that fight, and won’t be around to pop up in Beth and Rip’s upcoming spinoff, at least outside of possible flashbacks.

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Wes Bentley And Kelly Reilly Filmed Nearly Everything That Fans Watched

I always get taken out of a movie or TV show when it’s entirely too obvious that a featured actor has been replaced by a stunt actor. (I get why it has to happen sometimes, but knowing doesn’t help.) That isn’t ever really the case on Yellowstone, and definitely not in Beth and Jamie’s fight, as it looks like Kelly Reilly and Wes Bentley are both on screen the entire time.