The 40-year-old actor labored alongside Costner till the Dances with Wolves star abruptly exited the sequence earlier than the second half of the ultimate season was filmed.

Grimes performed Kayce Dutton on the present — which simply wrapped — whereas Costner performed his father, John Dutton.

“I have not talked to him since. It isn’t a case of any arduous emotions or something; it is simply, he is Kevin Costner. He is a giant deal,” Grimes mentioned to Males’s Well being. “I do have his cellphone quantity — I simply don’t really feel prefer it’s my place to achieve out.”

“He can attain out to me if he needs to,” he added.

The actor then admitted that not one of the forged anticipated Costner’s departure from the present occurring so abruptly.

“None of us noticed it coming the way in which it did, and clearly there was information about potential blowups behind the scenes or no matter,” he mentioned. “However identical to in life, man, this stuff occur, they occur quick, they usually’re not predictable.”

“I misplaced my father just a few years in the past. It occurred quick, and it was not the way in which that you’d assume that that will occur. In life, this stuff occur after which individuals have to begin making choices. And in our little Yellowstone world, that helped ramp the present up right into a boil,” he added.

After 5 seasons and greater than 50 episodes, Taylor Sheridan‘s flagship Yellowstone sequence drew to a detailed this week amongst confirmed and hinted spinoffs, sequels and prequels. Whereas none of these have concerned Kayce’s instantly household instantly, there’s nonetheless house for them.

Already confirmed and anticipated for 2025 is the sequence previously titled 2024, now redubbed The Madison. Michelle Pfeiffer will take the lead with forged members Matthew Fox, Patrick J. Adams and extra within the story of a brand new household relocating from New York Metropolis to the Madison River Valley, neighboring the remnants of the Dutton household and their former Yellowstone Ranch.

Extra sequence reportedly in improvement over the previous few years embrace 1944, which might discover the Dutton household throughout World Battle II, in addition to 6666, which is able to discover the historical past of the 4 Sixes ranch in West Texas in the course of the legendary time of the Outdated West.

As for a continuation for the Dutton household itself, all eyes seem like on Kayce’s sister Beth (Kelly Reilly) and her husband Rip (Cole Hauser) for that, whether or not as a sixth season for Yellowstone, or a brand new sequence altogether. A number of trades reported confirmed each actors had finalized offers to proceed of their roles, with Deadline reporting a derivative with Yellowstone in its title.

As seen within the finale of Yellowstone Kayce and Beth have established new properties for his or her households not that removed from each other, so there is not any motive Kayce’s story could not proceed proper alongside hers, if the actors and producers have been so inclined.

Whereas followers await affirmation of the present-day Dutton story’s continuation, nonetheless it’d occur, the Yellowstone franchise continues with a primary look revealed for Season 2 of 1923, exploring the second and third generations of Duttons in Montana with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.