Texan actor, 56, struggled as an actor before creating hit show<\/p>\n
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Taylor Sheridan may now be one of the most successful people in TV thanks to his Yellowstone franchise, but he previously found himself homeless after struggling to land roles as an actor.<\/p>\n
Sheridan, 56, is best known for creating Yellowstone and its multiple spin-offs for Paramount+, but he originally started out as an actor, taking on roles in Veronica Mars and Sons of Anarchy.<\/p>\n
Being a full-time actor proved to be a struggle for Sheridan, who has admitted that when work dried up, he lived in his car for six months.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was homeless twice,\u201d the actor, who also played Travis Wheatley in Yellowstone, told Town & Country. \u201cI lived in my car. Sometimes I\u2019d go to Ojai [in California], just somewhere where I could safely sleep. I did that for six months.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could have decided at any point, \u2018I\u2019m going to go get a full-time job and I\u2019m going to give up this dream,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I chose to sleep in my car over that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He ultimately pivoted towards screenwriting, selling a screenplay for the 2016 western drama Hell or High Water and using the proceeds to buy a house in Wyoming. The film, which stars Chris Pine and Ben Foster as Texas brothers who rob a series of banks to save their family ranch, received four Oscar nominations.<\/p>\n
Sheridan is now one of the largest landowners in Texas, having bought Bosque Ranch \u2013 where he lives and works \u2013 as well as the famous Four Sixes Ranch. The historic backdrop made an appearance in Yellowstone\u2019s later seasons, with Paramount announcing in 2021 that a spin-off about the ranch, titled 6666, was in development.<\/p>\n
However, Sheridan clarified this week that the project had been scrapped, saying that there was \u201cnever going to be\u201d a spin-off about the Four Sixes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would never fictionalise that ranch,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople thought that that was going to be a thing, but I would never do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He added that he didn\u2019t want to be \u201cmaking up lives\u201d and \u201cinventing a drama\u201d at a ranch that is still active.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo now I\u2019m trivialising and fictionalising something where real people work, and they raise their families there, and I could never do that to them,\u201d he continued. \u201cI could never do that to the cowboys that dedicated themselves, and everybody that works on that ranch. I\u2019m very protective of the Sixes, and it\u2019s a big responsibility to be the person who has to protect that ranch, so I have to be very, very careful with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans weren\u2019t too happy with the decision, however, with many on Reddit finding Sheridan\u2019s explanation to be hypocritical when he had previously signed on to be an executive producer of the show.<\/p>\n