Natalie Alyn Lind’s ‘Most Intimidating’ “Dutton Ranch” Scene Was with ‘Pro Joint Roller’ Annette Bening (Exclusive)

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• Natalie Alyn Lind had to roll a joint in a Dutton Ranch scene with Annette Bening, and she tells PEOPLE that was her “most intimidating” day on set

• “Annette Bening is a pro joint roller, and I’d never done it once in my life,” Lind reveals

• Lind praises Bening, who plays her grandma in the show, as “so badass” and “the kindest person of all time”

Acting is not the only skill Annette Bening has mastered.

According to her Dutton Ranch costar Natalie Alyn Lind, who plays Bening’s granddaughter, Oreana, on the Texas-set Yellowstone spinoff series, Bening is a “pro joint roller.”

As Lind, 26, tells PEOPLE, “Everything about that woman is just so cool, and it’s intimidating,” and her joint rolling skills are no different.

“There’s a scene in episode three where I’m sitting on the counter and I’m rolling a joint. That was probably the most intimidating scene that I had in this entire show, because Annette Bening is a pro joint roller, and I’d never done it once in my life,” Lind confesses. “So I was at home, days before, just practicing.”

When she arrived on set to film the scene, Lind says of Bening, 68: “She does it in three seconds.”

“And we’re also smoking fake weed on the show, obviously, and this weed that you smoke, when you puff it, it creates so much smoke, so there’d be so many times where I would take a hit of it, and it would be a little bit too much in my throat. So I’m just sitting there, my eyes are watering …  Experiences like that, you just don’t get in life. So being able to have those [with her], I mean, it just doesn’t feel real.”

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“That was definitely one of the more intimidating scenes on set, just being able to show Annette that I can also roll a joint, because she’s just so cool. She’s a pro at everything she does,” Lind continues. “And if she doesn’t know how to do something, she perfects it. It’s incredible.”

“It’s hard to put into words how grateful I feel because she’s such an incredible actor, but she’s just the kindest person of all time,” she adds. “She’s so badass in this show.”

Aside from rolling her joints, the dynamic between Bening and Lind’s characters onscreen is a complicated one. Oreana “grew up without a mom, and Beulah has always been her parental figure,” Lind says, while Oreana’s dad, Rob-Will (Jai Courtney), “has almost been a friend to her” instead.

“She feels this closeness to Rob-Will because he is her only parent, but he, time and time again, has just really dropped the ball and not been there for her as a father, and I think that there’s so much pain within that — and it’s almost a toxic relationship,” she continues. “I do think that their relationship is toxic and mentally abusive because she wants so badly to feel this just undying love. I think that Oreana is just a character that really wants to feel love.”

When it comes to Beulah, Oreana is keen to prove herself worthy of inheriting the family business. As Lind notes, Oreana wants to “step up and kind of show her grandma that she has what it takes to have the Jackson legacy name,” and that ends up influencing her budding relationship with Carter (Finn Little).

“There’s daddy issues there, for sure,” she says of Oreana’s dynamic with Carter. “In episode seven, when she’s talking to her ex from college, she reaches out for attention because she’s not getting it at home.”

In season 2, she teases, “It’s going to be really interesting for people to find out why Rob-Will and Oreana are as messed up as they are. It’s all going to make sense.”

New episodes of Dutton Ranch drop Fridays on Paramount+.

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