Dawn Olivieri is willing to sell eggs at a roadside stand if it means keeping her freedom.
The "Yellowstone" actress says she wound up booking more acting jobs after moving to an Arkansas ranch than she had in Los Angeles.
Olivieri, 45, said a stretch between jobs left her tired of waiting for someone else to decide when she could work, she told Fox News Digital in a Nov. 10 interview.
"I realized it wasn't giving me what my dream of what it was supposed to give me," Olivieri said. "I didn't have offers, just like falling out of my phone. I went through a dry spell, and I was like, 'Wow, so this is an illusion.' I kind of saw through the veil and once I saw through veil – I realized in that moment, I have to make some decisions about my life that makes
me happy – [it] isn't always waiting by the phone, losing my power, waiting for someone to hire me."
As taped auditions became routine during the pandemic, Olivieri got a nudge from her mother. "You don't have to live in L.A. to be an actress," Olivieri recalled her saying in a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
She asked herself what she would do with the money if the offers started coming in.
"Well, I would move to the country and have horses," she said. "And so I did that with nothing. Which wasn't the dream part, but in actuality, it was what was always meant to happen because I moved toward my own authenticity."
In 2022, she bought 160-acre property near Mena, Arkansas, and said goodbye to her life in Los Angeles, according to Fox News.
Olivieri played Claire Dutton in Taylor Sheridan's "1883" before joining "Yellowstone" as Sarah Atwood, the lawyer who gets involved with Wes Bentley's Jamie Dutton. She now plays Jenna Ross on "Homestead: The Series," which returned for its second season in November.
Inside Dawn Olivieri's Arkansas horse rescue
In August 2023, Olivieri and her social media followers raised money to rescue mares and foals that were being held for slaughter. Within a month, they were caring for 50 horses, according to Moon Mountain Sanctuary and Rescue, the nonprofit she founded at her ranch.
On the Aug. 12 episode of the "Let's Talk Local" podcast, Olivieri told host Sarah Zubiate Bennett she was living in a camper on the ranch.
Olivieri told Fox she'd come to think of Arkansas as "a land of no mirrors." On the ranch, she said, she spent less time worrying about how she looked and more time getting to know herself.
"I became a better actress for sure," she said.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 'Yellowstone' star is living in a camper on her Arkansas ranch
