Yellowstone's Beth/Rip Spinoff Taps Finn Little To Return As Carter
We may yet get to see Yellowstone's Beth allow Carter to call her mama. Finn Little, who played orphaned teen Carter in the OG series' fourth and fifth seasons, has been tapped to reprise his role in the spinoff centered around Kelly Reilly's hell-raising Beth Dutton and her tough-as-leather husband, Cole Hauser's Rip Wheeler.
In breaking the news Friday that the Australian-born 19-year-old had been made a series regular on the Paramount+ offshoot, our sister site Deadline teed up a reminder that the as-yet-untitled show is expected to follow the same timeline as Taylor Sheridan's OG drama. Thus far, no other casting has been announced.
You may recall that in Season 4's finale, Carter made the mistake of calling mother figure Beth mama, and she was not having it. "America went after me for that," Reilly told TVLine. "I was like, 'That's the character, not me!'
"But I get it," she added. "I wish she would [let herself be a mother to him], too."
Though what Beth wound up saying to the youngster might not have been what he or the audience wanted to hear, it at least wasn't BS. "She goes, 'You had a mom. She died. I can't replace that. But I'll be your friend,'" Reilly noted. "I think there's something honorable about that." (Read the full interview here.)
Your reaction to Little's hiring? Are you looking forward to seeing Beth and Rip's makeshift family come together again?