Luke Grimes opens approximately Kevin Costner‘s exit from Yellowstone.
In an interview with The Independent Before his second appearance at the famous Stagecoach country festival in California, Grimes described the Dutton patriarch’s exit from the successful Paramount series as “unfortunate.”
“Whatever happened there, it’s unfortunate if it changed anything about the course of the show,” Grimes tells the outlet. “I know, [Costner] got busy with his films, which were like passion projects [the newly announced Horizon: An American Saga for one]. At some point you gotta do what you gotta do, man; You have to do what you love.
Yellowstone will begin filming the second half of the fifth season of the show’s latest and final season next month. The show was originally scheduled to return in late 2023, but there was a return a lot of tension between Costner and co-creator Taylor Sheridan, not to mention the Hollywood strikes. And with the second part of season five set to release in November, the show’s impending return sparked some good feelings for Costner said ET He would be interested in returning at the beginning of the month.
“I would love to do it, but we didn’t,” Costner said. “…I thought I would do seven [seasons] but at the moment we are at five. So how it works – I hope it works – but there are a lot of different shows going on. Maybe it will be like that. Maybe I’ll remember that again. If that’s the case and I’m really comfortable with it [it]I’d love to.
And yes, Costner says he’s thought about how John Dutton’s story ends Yellowstone.
“Well, you know, he has to be proactive about what happens, and I kind of had my own fantasy of what it could be,” Costner said, “but that’s Taylor’s business. I told him that a while ago. I had worried about how it could happen, but we’ll just have to see.
Meanwhile, Grimes also spoke out Yellowstone is called a “conservative fantasy” by some parts of the country due to its Western roots and reliance on artillery for defense Yellowstone Ranch.
“I think a lot of people see a cowboy hat and a horse and think, ‘Oh, that’s not for me, these people believe differently.’ And it’s almost like they’re attributing these flawed characters on the show to some kind of strange belief that they’ve instilled in them,” Grimes says. “In the meantime, you can have such a terrible person [Succession‘s] Logan Roy, who lives in an apartment in Manhattan, and that’s fine. This guy is a total bastard. But that’s okay. This is so funny to me because… I just don’t understand why this is immediately equated with a political belief. And I don’t think that’s the case.
Sheridan also addressed the politicization of the show, which is telling The Atlantic in 2022 that the label is enigmatic.
“They refer to it as ‘the conservative show’ or ‘the Republican show’ or ‘the red state’ game of Thrones“‘” Sheridan said. “And I just sit back and laugh. I’m like, “Really?” The show talks about the displacement of Native Americans and the way Native American women were treated, as well as corporate greed, the gentrification of the West, and land grabs. This is a red state show?”
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