Luke Grimes has been playing cowboy Kayce Dutton in yellow stone since 2018, but some fans are still assuming a fundamental truth: he’s an actor, not a real cowboy.
The 42-year-old, who now continues the character’s story in the C.B.S. split marshalshe told the Toronto radio station. FRIENDS 104.5 that the strangest encounters with fans often involve a version of the same realization.
Some viewers, he said, “loved the show so much that, on some level, they were upset that it wasn’t real.”
The most common version of this comes in the form of a complaint. “A lot of times they’ll tell you, ‘You’re not a real cowboy.'”
His answer is simple.
“Well, of course not, I’m an actor. That’s why I can do this. If I were a real cowboy, I’d be herding cattle right now. I wouldn’t be on this show.”
Even his one-year-old son, who he shares with his wife Bianca Rodrigues Grimes, has his own vision of the cowboy character.
“My son thinks my cowboy hat is really funny,” Grimes said. PEOPLE to the marshals Premiere in Los Angeles.
“He doesn’t understand why I have that big thing on my head.” That being said, the baby loves visiting the set and was excited when they brought him in.
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