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Neal McDonough may be known as one of the most ruthless villains in the “Yellowstone” universe, but there’s one thing the actor himself has never done: watch the show.
McDonough, 60, played ruthless businessman Malcolm Beck in the hit series Taylor Sheridan, appearing in six episodes in season two.
But reliving the performance is something McDonough admitted he avoids.
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Neal McDonough said he never watched her performance in “Yellowstone.” (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for A+E Networks)
“I’ve never seen it. You know, I don’t watch any of my stuff,” McDonough said on the “Arroyo Grande” podcast.
He then explained why he refused to watch himself on screen.
“As a method actor, I can tell you if I look at a picture – that’s why I don’t watch any of my stuff. If I look at a picture from a show from 20 years ago, I know exactly what I was thinking. I know the song I was thinking. I know where I was going. So going back to myself can be really traumatic and painful sometimes,” he shared.
Even attending the premiere of your own film doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll watch the finished product.
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Neal McDonough attends “The Last Rodeo” red carpet premiere on May 12, 2025 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Omar Vega/Getty Images)
“I’ll go to the premieres of our films and do the red carpet. (His wife) Ruvé and I will come in, go out, have a nice dinner somewhere, go to the party afterwards. ‘How do you like the movie?’ “It was great. It was great. I loved it. I just don’t like looking at myself,” he said.
And McDonough doesn’t lose sleep wondering if he delivered on his promises in any particular scene.
“I was there that day,” he said. “I know I did a great job because God gave me a talent. I’m terrible at driving nails. I’m not very good at telling jokes. But like Ruvé said, ‘Man, you can act.’ And so I don’t need to look at whether it was good or not. They keep hiring me, right? If they keep hiring, I must be doing something right.”
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His decision to avoid watching “Yellowstone” comes years after a painful chapter in McDonough’s life that left him wondering if his Hollywood career was over.
McDonough played ruthless businessman Malcolm Beck in “Yellowstone,” but admitted he’s never watched Taylor Sheridan’s hit series. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
McDonough claimed he was fired from the ABC series “Scoundrels” in 2010 after refusing to perform intimate scenes with a female co-star, saying the decision effectively derailed his career and left him struggling financially and personally.
“What time is the bar open? That was generally my thought process at the time,” he told Fox News Digital in May. “You know, I got fired from a show because I wouldn’t kiss a woman. No one would have hired me because they thought I was a religious weirdo, which is to say I love my wife so much. And no one can understand that, no one can understand that.”
McDonough also spoke openly about his drinking problems during this period.
He said he “had always been a drinker” but “it became a serious problem” after he said Hollywood ostracized him.
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Neal McDonough has long credited his wife, Ruvé McDonough, for helping him navigate the emotional ups and downs of a decades-long Hollywood career. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
“I lost the house, the cars, lost everything,” he said.
Then his wife, Ruvé, intervened.
“She grabbed me and said, ‘It’s us or the bottle, you choose,'” McDonough recalled. “And I never looked back.”
The ultimatum changed everything for the longtime actor.
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McDonough and Ruvé have been married for almost 23 years. They share five children and have also built a professional partnership, producing projects together including “Boon,” “The Warrant: Breaker’s Law,” “Homestead” and “The Last Rodeo.”
The couple met while McDonough was filming “Band of Brothers” in 2000 and married on December 1, 2003.
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