Collider’s Maggie Lovitt recently moderated a panel for Holloway at Fan Expo Portland, and one of the audience members asked Holloway about the famous rattlesnake moment. “I mean, they told me, ‘You’re dead,’ because if you play a bad guy, you either take over or you die. And that was Kevin Costner’s show, so I was not taking over anything. So it was like, ‘I’m dead.’ What a fun character to play.”
Holloway continued, explaining that Taylor Sheridan originally had a different plan for Roarke, “Taylor [Sheridan] actually told me, ‘You’re going to turn good! You’re going to flip the script on them!’ And I was like, ‘I can’t wait!’ Then at the end, he was like, ‘You’re gonna die.’ But it was fun working with a real rattlesnake.” Holloway then explained which of the rattlesnakes in the scene were real and which were fake, and he also explained what happened on set when one of them got loose. He told fans:
“Obviously, the one on my face wasn’t real, but the ones that jumped at the camera were real, and they got out of the cooler, and they were swimming, and people were freaking out. But when that rattle goes off, the hair on the back of everyone’s neck stands up. You feel it.”
Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Yellowstone’ Empire Is Still Expanding
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