Dutton Ranch Star Thought He Was Being Killed Off In Season 1

With the primary season of “Dutton Ranch” now behind us, each character on the Paramount+ drama can breathe a sigh of aid that they survived… for now. After all, except your identify is Beth or Rip, tomorrow is rarely assured on the “Yellowstone” spin-off. Just ask Rob-Will, a seemingly pivotal character to the collection, who met his premature finish within the finale.

Needless to say, the present’s actors learn each new script with their fingers crossed, hoping their characters would nonetheless be alive by the point they reached the final web page. Juan Pablo Raba, who performs Beulah’s scorned “son” Joaquin, tells TVLine he was sure that it was curtains for Joaquin in Episode 6 when Chet approached him with a complete lot of anger — and a gun.

“When I first got the episode, I had no idea what was going to happen,” Raba recollects. “Cole [Hauser] and Kelly [Reilly] know because they’re producers, but for the rest of us, every single script is a wild card. So I started reading the script, and when I saw Chet that pulls a gun and walks towards Joaquin, I was like, ‘Well, this is it. It was fun while it lasted.'”

Fully accepting that Joaquin was being killed off, Raba admits that he was shocked he hadn’t heard from one of many present’s producers forward of time. “I’m thinking, oh my God, I would have hoped that somebody would have called me to tell me, ‘Hey, buddy, this is it,'” he says. “But I’m just like, damn it, it feels so soon.”

Fortunately, Raba turned the web page and realized that it wasn’t Joaquin’s time; as an alternative, Chet was shot and killed by Miguel, who had been lurking within the shadows with a firearm of his personal. Raba says the constructive consequence for his character “was a big surprise story-wise.”