'ransom Canyon' Star Thought Hollywood Career Was Over Before Landing Netflix Role

"Ransom Canyon" prima Minka Kelly thought she was done moving successful Hollywood earlier landing a domiciled connected nan deed Netflix show.

During a caller quality connected "Today pinch Jenna & Friends," nan 44-year-old character opened up astir wondering if her clip arsenic an character had travel to an extremity earlier getting formed connected Netflix's latest deed show, saying, "I thought that truthful galore times."

"I deliberation that each occupation that finishes, you're for illustration … and past nan magnitude of clip passes, and you are like, ‘OK, this is it. I had a bully tally and that’s okay. Everything's okay. I person my backup. I tin beryllium a scrub tech again,'" she said.

In nan caller show, Kelly plays a musician and proprietor of nan town's section creation hallway who finds herself stuck successful a emotion triangle and having to take betwixt 2 feuding ranchers, played by Eoin Macken and Josh Duhamel.

Kelly admits she often thinks her profession successful Hollywood has travel to an end. (Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty Images)

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Kelly first became a family sanction erstwhile she starred arsenic Lyla Garrity connected nan deed show "Friday Night Lights" from 2006 to 2009. Since then, she has appeared successful various projects, including "Just Go With It," "Jane nan Virgin," "Euphoria" and others.

"I deliberation that each occupation that finishes, you're for illustration … and past nan magnitude of clip passes, and you are like, ‘OK this is it. I had a bully tally and that’s OK. Everything's OK. I person my backup. I tin beryllium a scrub tech again.'"

After much than 20 years successful nan business, Kelly says her acquisition playing Quinn O'Grady connected "Ransom Canyon" has been her favourite occupation "for a batch of reasons."

"I deliberation nan main logic conscionable being I americium successful nan champion spot I person ever been, truthful I'm capable to conscionable really beryllium successful it successful a different measurement than before," she explained. "A consciousness of comfortableness that comes pinch life acquisition and besides possibly conscionable being a female successful her 40s."

Although she has recovered occurrence successful Hollywood, she admits to reasoning astir returning to her profession arsenic a scrub tech successful nan operating room "all nan time."

Kelly first became a family sanction erstwhile she starred arsenic Lyla Garrity successful "Friday Night Lights." (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

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"Because I deliberation it's a point that benignant of gives maine a small spot of confidence," she explained. "This isn't nan full world, truthful nan rejection that you get being an character is benignant of balanced retired for maine successful that I tin go, ‘I’m bully astatine this' and I loved it truthful much. It's really bully to consciousness for illustration you're bully astatine something."

The show was filmed successful Albuquerque, New Mexico, wherever Kelly grew up. When speaking pinch Jenna Bush Hager and Andy Cohen connected "The Today Show," Kelly admitted nan thought of returning to her hometown was "scary," but that erstwhile she was there, "it really was not truthful scary aft all."

In her 2023 memoir, "Tell Me Everything," Kelly opened up astir her unsmooth puerility increasing up pinch a azygous mother who worked arsenic an exotic dancer. She elaborate stories of going to nan portion nine pinch her mother arsenic a kid and her experiences pinch beingness maltreatment and performing successful peep shows astatine an big video shop to make ends meet.

"It was a benignant of surreal and beautiful measurement to benignant of put a front connected that full communicative conscionable to make bid pinch it, and past nan beingness is like, 'Let’s spot really overmuch bid you made pinch it,'" she said of returning to Albuquerque to movie nan show. "You conscionable are like, ‘Wow, I person my powerfulness back.’" 

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Kelly returned to her hometown to prima successful "Ransom Canyon." (Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)

She continued, "I person a heavy compassion for that type of me, and now I get to acquisition New Mexico pinch much grown-up, much healed eyes and spot each nan beauty that location is that you benignant of don't get to admit erstwhile you're younger."

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