Watch ‘Yellowstone’s Jefferson White & Neal McDonough Go At It In Short ‘The Writer’
deadline.comWhen you make as many shows as Taylor Sheridan, everybody pitches in. Above, watch a clip from the short film The Writer, featuring a scene between Jefferson White (he plays Jimmy Hurdstom in Yellowstone) and Neal McDonough (he plays the nasty Cal Thresher in Tulsa King, and a much nastier land thief Malcolm Beck in Yellowstone) go at it.
The younger man steps into his late father’s cabin to become a successful writer. Just like his neglectful father did, the scribe devalues his wife and child to chase someone else’s idea of success.
McDonough plays the acrid spirit of the title character’s dead father, a looming presence still fomenting insecurity and doubt in his son.
Pic marks the writing/directing debut of Austin Glasser and Luke Madenwald. Austin is the son of Yellowstone EP David Glasser, and he cut his teeth doing odd jobs as production assistant for the series Tulsa King and 1883.
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