Yellowstone's Eden Brolin Teases What Lies Ahead For Mia and Jimmy's Love Story

A girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do, especially the take-charge women on Yellowstone. So in Episode 3 of Season 3, when barrel racer Mia (Eden Brolin) set her sights on Jimmy Hurdstrom (Jefferson White) as her new beau, she went full-steam ahead.

“She gets what she wants. If she sets her mind to something, she's going to get it. That's just the way that it is," Brolin tells Parade.com in a new interview.

Even so, at first, he was first flattered, but then he wound up flat on his back in the hospital when Mia’s attention caused him to lose his concentration and he was thrown from his steer, breaking several bones. But that didn’t deter Mia from lassoing her man. She turned up at the hospital to offer him some TLC and she has been by his side ever since.

But going forward, Jimmy has a big decision to make and it may be one that affects their future. Does he give up the rodeo like John Dutton (Kevin Costner), who is paying his hospital bills? Or will he return to the rodeo, which is where Jimmy saw his future and his opportunity to be his own man but could possibly cost him his job on the Yellowstone Ranch?

Since it was his rodeo riding that attracted Mia to him initially, the question last is will she stick by him if he decides to be just a ranch hand?

“Being as she's stuck around this far through an injury, I think that definitely says something about her,” Brolin tells Parade.com in an exclusive interview. “She stuck around to become part of his life on the ranch a little bit. I think that says a lot about her dedication to the relationship.”

Obviously, the future for Jimmy and Mia is in the hands of the show’s creator Taylor Sheridan rather than the actors, but Brolin thinks that Mia is strong enough to walk away if she and Jimmy aren’t going to work out.

“If it really was something that wasn't going to work for her life and if she wanted Jimmy to have his happiest life, then she would be able to be like, ‘Let him go and do what he needs to do to fulfill his own life.’”

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And interestingly enough, despite the fact that Mia is partially responsible for Jimmy’s accident and thus his dilemma, Brolin says Mia isn’t someone who would dwell on something like that.

“She wouldn't start beating herself up for that,” she says. “She'd probably just turn it back around to him and say, ‘Well, it was your fault for not focusing.’ That would be my guess, but she probably knows that she had a little something to contribute to that moment.”

Playing a barrel racer is exactly the type of role that Brolin, who has ridden horses inconsistently throughout her life, had been looking for. In fact, about a year before she was asked to audition, she had put out the word that she wanted to work around horses.

Initially, she auditioned to play Teeter (Jen Landon), but the producers had something else in mind for her, and that was Mia. And once she discovered what Mia was made of, it was a role she was happy to take on, especially because of the boldness of her character.

“Barrel racers are incredible women and a little bit out of their minds for choosing a career like barrel racing because it's fast and it's crazy,” she says.

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Unlike Mia, who knew growing up she wanted to be a barrel racer, Brolin, a third-generation actor (dad is Josh Brolin, grandpa is James Brolin), did have more of a struggle deciding if she wanted to follow in the family business. True, she did a bit of acting in middle and high school, but it took her four “grueling” years of auditioning to land her first job. It wasn’t a snap that people might assume because her last name is Brolin.

“So, I don't want to say that acting was something that I felt resigned to, but I was willing to explore it and continue being in the frame of mind where I have other things that I've enjoyed doing,” says Brolin, who also is a singer in the band Atta Boy. “I did other jobs that I didn't mind at all. This is something that has continued to fall into place for me, and I'm allowing that to happen.”

The Yellowstone Season 3 finale airs Sunday, Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Paramount Network.

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