I, for one, think he plays the perfect cowboy. The new Yellowstone spinoff Marshals premiered on CBS a couple weeks ago, which focuses on Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) and his life as he faces tragedy in his personal life and finds himself working as a U.S. marshal.
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.”
And spoiler alert, in case you haven’t watched the first or second episode yet, it is revealed very early in the episode that Kayce has lost his wife Monica (played by Kelsey Asbille) to cancer, which leads to a rally on the Broken Rock Reservation and sets up the first episode in an action-packed way.
Country star Riley Green 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.” Yesterday, the second episode aired on CBS, and it seems like most Yellowstone fans are excited for this new series, because judging by the series premiere’s ratings, as shared in The Hollywood Reporter, Marshals:
“Drew the biggest premiere audience for a scripted show of the 2025-26 season — and quite a few seasons before that. Excluding shows with football as a lead-in, Sunday’s debut episode had the largest same-day audience (9.52 million viewers) for a broadcast scripted series premiere since FBI topped 10 million viewers in September 2018. (One caveat: Nielsen has changed its ratings collection methodology a few times since 2018.)”
In fact, Marshals rating also surpassed a lot of Yellowstone’s numbers in the final season, excluding the season 5B premiere of Yellowstone in 2024, which accumulated 16.4 million viewers on its first night, though “that number includes an eight-network simulcast on cable, replays on Paramount Network and a special showing on CBS.”
But it sounds like there’s one person who thinks it’s funny to see his dad play a cowboy… and that would be Grimes’ 18-month-old son, Rigel, who Grimes recently took to set to meet everyone who works on Marshals.
Grimes explained on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon that Rigel laughed at him “the entire time” he was there seeing him in a cowboy hat, and made him “feel very uncool about something I’m supposed to feel really cool about”:
“I took him to my set the other day, my job, you know, I wanted to introduce him to everybody, very excited for that. And he just kept laughing at my cowboy hat the entire time. Making me feel very uncool about something I’m supposed to feel really cool about.”
Kids will humble you VERY quickly, and of course the little guy isn’t used to seeing his dad in his Marshals attire, so it was probably strange for him to see his dad in clothes he’s never seen him in, and he’s also not even two-years-old, so I wouldn’t take it too personally, at least not yet…
Grimes said that now, even when they’re at home, Rigel will find any “big, funny thing” that isn’t supposed to be on your head, and put it on his head and sing the “dada” song:
“I thought so… he does not. It started with him just pointing and laughing, and now when he’s at home, he’ll find any big, funny thing and put it on his head and start singing he ‘dada’ song.
Literally anything… a bag, laundry, it doesn’t matter. Something big that should not be on your head, and he’ll sing the ‘dada’ song.”
That’s actually so funny, and Grimes went on to describe how much his son already loves music, but not just music that’s for kids… he likes Queen and apparently requests “Bohemian Rhapsody” often.
He’s already got great taste, and maybe he’ll grow up to be a musician or actor like his dad… and if you want to hear what the “dada song” is, Grimes sings it in the clip below:
@fallontonight @Luke Grimes’ son has a funny reaction whenever he gets into character as Kayce Dutton in @marshalscbs 🤣 @Yellowstone #FallonTonight #TonightShow #Yellowstone #LukeGrimes #JimmyFallon ♬ original sound – FallonTonight
The full interview is available here:
