In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Luke Grimes opened up about how thrilled he was to join the cast of "Yellowstone." He revealed that he was instantly smitten with the character of Kayce Dutton and was sold on the project because he had been a fan of Taylor Sheridan's work. He knew that he had to score this role, and Sheridan felt similarly.
The "Yellowstone" creator had Grimes on his radar because of the 2014 Clint Eastwood film "American Sniper," which he had watched while writing the show. The war film is based on "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History" by Chris Kyle, a revered marksman whose military success led to the deterioration of his personal life.
Grimes played Marc Lee, a Navy SEAL killed in combat. "So just the correlation between Kayce being a Navy SEAL and then seeing me do that on 'American Sniper,' I think, clued him in that maybe I could play a role like that," he told THR.
"And thank God. I don't know if that helped my chances or got me to the top of the list or what, but I do know that he saw that movie and that he's a big fan of Clint Eastwood, as am I," Grimes said.
