“Marshals” star Luke Grimes says Kayce relationship would ‘really feel like I used to be dishonest’

Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) is grieving.

Marshals shocked Yellowstone followers when it launched its first episode by revealing that Monica (Kelsey Asbille), Kayce's spouse and Tate's (Brecken Merrill) mother, had died. Her loss of life occurred off display, between the top of the flagship sequence and the launch of the spinoff, and it's implied that she died from most cancers brought on by toxins being dumped onto the Damaged Rock reservation.

It was a shock for followers who'd watched Monica and Kayce's love story unfold for years on Yellowstone. It was additionally a shock for star Luke Grimes when it was initially pitched to him. "It was his complete coronary heart," Grimes tells Leisure Weekly of the connection. Finally, Grimes got here round. However he additionally had a number of ideas about Kayce's love life shifting ahead.

"I simply felt like if we went there too rapidly, it might really feel like we had been doing it to have a storyline," he says of Kayce getting again into the relationship world. "It will really feel very compulsory and, like, that's the factor you must do along with your primary. Not on this case. Not once you've seen a man for years and years and years be so head over heels in love with somebody. It will nearly really feel like, 'Was that each one bullshit?' If it ever occurs, it ought to occur actually organically and over time."

That's to not say that the present can be with out romance. "Anytime you place individuals in these intense jobs, emotions occur," showrunner Spencer Hudnut says. "And , we now have a reasonably engaging group of Marshals," he provides with fun. "You undergo a gun battle and you may't go residence and discuss to your accomplice about it. You may discuss to your teammate. That's one thing that we'll most likely discover."

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However he echoes Grimes' sentiments when it comes to Kayce's journey. "A lot of, at the least the primary half of the season, is Kayce realizing he must confront that grief to begin attempting to maneuver on together with his life," Hudnut says. "We're being very aware of that and respectful of that loss. That's one thing Luke and I spent a whole lot of time speaking about was: How far is simply too far, significantly within the first season, to go along with him? He's very protecting of that relationship, as you’d anticipate."

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For Grimes, it's a private matter. "Capturing a scene the place I used to be kissing somebody would really feel like I used to be dishonest," he says with fun. "Like, I’d really feel so responsible. I actually would, in Luke's coronary heart, really feel like I used to be dishonest on somebody as a result of it was simply that essential to him. It's gotta take a while."

He's not saying by no means. He's simply saying not now. "Perhaps this may occur down the road," Grimes says, "nevertheless it's gotta take a sec."

Marshals releases new episodes Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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