- Let's go to work.

- Yes, sir.

(mellow country music)

- I grew up on a cattle ranch

so all this stuff was very familiar to me.

- [Johnetta] When it fits, you don't wanna break

what's not broken.

- [Sled] The one thing you learn about what we do

is there's so much change.

- [Garry] I always told the guys we're trying to hold

at a certain level.

- [Carla] Everyday has its specific set of challenges.

- It's a family, it's a pretty beautiful group of people.

Cut it.

- Cutting, cutting. - Nice.

I'm Stephen Kay, and I'm a Director/Executive Producer.

We have two sort of rules, break their hearts a little bit

and make 'em wanna be cowboys.

If you come at it like that, every scene sort of starts

to make sense.

- Well, you figure it out, you let me know.

- I am Carla Curry, and I am

the Set Decorator for "Yellowstone".

We are the last ones to actually touch the set,

the set decoration.

- My name is Sled Reynolds, and I am

a Wrangler/Horse Trainer.

I also do all the wild animals.

(bear roars)

- My name is Johnetta Boone, and I'm

the Costume Designer on "Yellowstone".

I'm responsible for dressing basically everyone

who is in clothes.

- My name is Cary White, and I am the Production Designer.

You just labor over these details,

and if I get 'em right, it looks authentic.

- Garry Elmendorf, Special Effects Supervisor.

We do wind, rain, fire, smoke, explosions,

that type of thing.

- I'm Jason Rodriguez.

I'm the Stunt Coordinator on "Yellowstone".

I'm in charge of the actor's safety

and my stunt people's safety.

- You alright?

- People always look for a pattern (groans),

and there is no pattern on "Yellowstone".

That is our other sort of rule

is cast, cast, cast, that's a wrap.

- I don't think I'm cut out for this.

- Nobody is, Jimmy.

It's gotta be cut into you.

- This is definitely not your average TV set.

- We're doing feature film-quality stunts

in a television show.

It's really rewarding to do all that,

and I love being able to portray the Western lifestyle.

- My bucket list of goals for doing shows

was to do a Western.

Most Westerns are period, and this one was contemporary,

so it was perfect.

- We've shot reining scenes, we shoot roping scenes,

just working the cattle.

- Doing any kind of Western of this sort,

the brand is really important.

- You're gonna live up to the brand

or I'm gonna fucking take it back, do you hear me?

- When I get a script from Taylor,

sometimes he's written stuff where the first read,

I go through it, and head in my hands wondering

how we're gonna accomplish this.

- Taylor's pretty good about, he'll figure out weird stuff,

and you know, he'll call you at midnight and go,

"Hey, I got this scene."

And you're like, "Ugh, what do you want," you know?

And, "Okay, fine."

And then, you think maybe he's forgot it, but he doesn't.

- Why don't you come on over, bring a horse,

we'll go for a ride, maybe chase some cows.

- If there's something big coming,

I can actually pick up the phone

if I get a whiff of something.

He'll talk to me about what he's thinking,

and give us an idea of what's happening.

We can react in about a week to something big.

(motorcycles clanging)

We can react now if it has to happen right away (laughs).

- We all pool our thoughts and get an idea

of what we want this to look like.

- Everyone is a real detail person.

- Every discipline is a little bit different.

- You know, everyone has a list of goals.

- You prep differently every episode.

- And then, when we pull it off,

it's always pretty satisfying.

- You know, I got half a mind to run up that hill

and do it again.

- We finished last season in a place going,

"That was exhausting (sighs).

"I need a breath, I need a moment of peace."

And this is, "Oh my gosh, we're on a train."

- We're super excited to bring season three to life.

- Season three, woo!

It's gonna have a lot of people talking.

- Oh my gosh, I don't think you guys are ready (laughs).

- Ain't that the truth.

- I like what I do, everything is a new challenge.

It's been really fun.

- The soul of this is a poem, it's a cowboy poem.

- It's how we used to do it.

- Yeah, well, never should've stopped.

(dramatic country music)