Exclusive | Yellowstone star Denim Richards reveals why shocking death was postponed for 2 weeks: Emotional wreck

It’s the end of his ride.Denim Richards, who played the ranch hand Colby on “Yellowstone,” said goodbye in the most recent episode. He’s the latest victim on the hit Paramount Network ranch drama, which has had a high body count in its fifth and final season. Unlike John Dutton (Kevin Costner) or Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri), Colby wasn’t taken out by a hit man, but by a horse. “There’s always two reactions,” Richards told The Post about getting the news.“You have your personal reaction, which is the ‘who, what, when, where, why.’ In the beginning [his death] was a tough one to swallow.

I’ve been very connected to this character for a while.Once you get past that ocean of emotion, at the end of the day, so much of what we do as artists is really about the bigger picture.” Colby was killed by a horse while saving Carter (Finn Little).

“It was very much a cowboy’s death.It was kind of what a real-life situation would be,” said Richards.

“These things are not uncommon, that’s what makes it so tragic.So, this is a little bit more of a hero’s death.” Richards said that his final day on set ended up having a surprising twist. “The funny part about the last day of filming [is that] I was an emotional wreck driving into set … I was like ‘This is the last time I’ll put this hat on.’ I got there dealing with all this emotion, and then there’s this massive thunderstorm.”Because of the lightning, filming got delayed first an hour, then five hours.

Finally, they ended up postponing the shoot by two weeks. “So I had gone through all this emotional ‘this is the last time.’ And it was like, ‘Actually you ‘re gonna do this again in two weeks,’” Richards said, laughing. “When I came back, I had time to properly deal with the emotions.Once you get onto set, it feels like any other day, until it’s not.

Then of course at the end, you say thank you to everybody, but you try not to make it too much abou...