Alright, Yellowstone junkies, let’s take a trip down memory lane and revisit the moment that had us all reaching for the Kleenex: Elsa Dutton’s heartbreaking death in 1883. But hold on a sec, because Isabel May, the actress who brought Elsa to life, has a surprisingly optimistic take on her character’s tragic fate.

While Tim McGraw (James Dutton himself!) confessed to bawling his eyes out when Elsa met her end via a poisoned arrow, May sees things a bit differently.

In her eyes, Elsa’s short life was packed with so much love and adventure that her death, while undeniably sad, doesn’t overshadow the beauty of her journey.

“So I think it’s a really beautiful trajectory,” May told Newsweek back in 2022. “She gets to fall in love twice.