Fans will get to see Riley Green make his acting debut very soon. Yellowstone spinoff Marshals will premiere this Sunday, March 1st on CBS, and it of course stars Luke Grimes, better known to Yellowstone fans as Kayce Dutton, in a new chapter after moving on from the Yellowstone Ranch.
Just a couple weeks or so from the premiere date of the new Kayce Dutton-focused series, Marshals, will air on CBS and is a continuation of his story beyond Yellowstone. The new show starring Luke Grimes should provide fans with everything they want and more in terms of having him back on your screen for an action-packed show.
The synopsis of the show’s first season, which will consist of 13-episodes seemingly finds Kayce Dutton got back to his violent ways because of a devastating loss that he suffered:
“With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Dutton joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence.”
Just in case you haven’t seen any of the trailers… all signs are pointing towards Kayce Dutton joining the U.S. Marshals because he loses his wife, Monica (played by Kelsey Asbille), which many Yellowstone fans are probably happy about. And in the Season One trailer, fans noticed that someone ho looked a lot like Riley Green was in a scene where you see Kayce, along with several others, hanging out around a campfire while a man with a very familiar mustache plays guitar.
Riley will appear in multiple episodes, and he will play former Navy SEAL Garrett, who arrives at the ranch, unexpectedly, hoping to lean on his friends Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) and Cal (Logan Marshall-Green) to help “put the demons of his past to rest.”
Riley says being on set with his friend Luke Grimes, who sort of had an inverse yet parallel journey to Riley as he is wading into the music world, made the whole experience that much better:
“I’m so excited to be joining the cast of ‘Marshals.’ Being on set with my buddy Luke Grimes made the experience even more memorable. This is my first go around in the acting space and I couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to this world.”
It sounds like Riley will have a pretty substantial role, at least in this first season, and I’m sure fans will be excited to see him on their TV screens as this highly-anticipated spinoff gets underway. Riley has expressed an interest in acting in quite a few interviews over the last several months, and there’s really no better role for a first acting job than this in my humble opinion.
And during an interview with with Entertainment Tonight at the premiere last night, Grimes said the idea to have Riley on the show came about when they were at a songwriting session together, as Grimes is also a country artist and is set to release his sophomore album Redbird on April 3rd.
He joked that he “just felt bad” for Riley because it seemed like he needed a job, explaining that Riley was talking about wanting to get into acting while they were writing a song, which was right before they got started filming Marshals:
“Well, I just felt bad for the guy, you know. It seemed like he needed a job, honestly. We were writing a song together, and he was talking about wanting to get into acting. That was right before I started this, and I just had a little idea. I was like, why don’t you come try to be on our show. and it worked out, here we are.”
It couldn’t have worked out any better, and I’m hoping we get to hear that song on either Luke’s forthcoming album, or a potential 2026 Riley project, so stay tuned on that front…
Luke said that Riley is a “very good” actor, and he thinks he has a lot of potential in terms of continuing down that path:
“Amazing. No kidding, he’s very, very good. I think he can do this as much as he wants to do it. He’s an incredibly talented guy, he’s not bad looking, either. So that helps. But I thought he would crush it. I mean, the guy writes his own songs, he’s super talented, and obviously handles the rest of all of this very well, so I think he’ll do great.”
I have to imagine this is just the beginning of Riley’s newfound career as an actor, and it’s interesting that the two of them have been able to help the other in their respective new journeys in music and acting, and I can’t wait to see what they’ve delivered in this first season of Marshals.
Check out the newly-released second trailer here:
