'Marshals' Cast Reveals the 'Yellowstone' Characters They Want Back the Most
When Yellowstone ended, it felt like the Dutton family story was essentially over, especially for someone like Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), who turned over a new leaf after selling his family’s ranch back to the Broken Rock Tribe. He wrapped the series by finding peace with his wife, Monica (Kelsey Asbille), and son, Tate (Brecken Merrill) in East Camp. However, in Marshals, Kayce has been thrust back into the action. While Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip (Cole Hauser) have moved to Texas to build a new life, Kayce remains in Montana but now with a new role. As a U.S. marshal, Kayce has to face new threats, not only as a member of law enforcement, but also as a Dutton (with all of the baggage that comes with that name) and as a single father who has recently lost his wife.
Season 1 might have gotten off to a rocky start, especially due to the sharp format shift from Yellowstone‘s cable drama to Marshals’ network TV procedural, but audiences still can’t get enough of Taylor Sheridan‘s franchise. When Season 1 concluded with a cliffhanger ending, it felt inevitable that we would get more of Kayce’s story. CBS renewed Marshals for 20 episodes for Season 2 (a step up from the 13-episode Season 1), giving the series more room to grow and develop its new cast of characters.
While Grimes and Merrill are reprising their roles, the show brings in some new faces with Logan Marshall Green as Pete “Cal” Calvin, the chief of the marshals team and Kayce’s former U.S. Navy SEAL senior chief. There’s also Belle Turek-Skinner (Arielle Kebbel), Andrea Cruz (Ash Santos), and Miles Kittel (Tatanka Means), who all work alongside Cal and Kayce week to week. From Broken Rock, both Gil Birmingham and Mo Brings Plenty return to play Thomas Rainwater and Mo, respectively. Despite its procedural format, Marshals still brings boatloads of action and thrills each week on CBS, and Collider had a chance to head to Park City, Utah, where the cast films the majority of the series to take a look at just what it takes to bring this Yellowstone spin-off to life.
‘Marshals’ Brings Montana To Life in Park City, Utah
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Although both Yellowstone and Marshals technically take place in Montana, close to Bozeman, the majority of Marshals is filmed in Park City, Utah. At the Utah Film Studios, there are massive sets built in extreme detail. From the Marshals’ headquarters office to Kayce’s cabin to the Bullet ‘n Barrel Saloon, each set is bursting at the seams with detail. There are news articles about Cal’s past victories as a Navy SEAL on the walls, pictures of Monica and Tate in Kayce’s cabin, and shotgun shell string lights decorating the rafters of the bar. The fireplace at the headquarters is made of real stone rather than foam, the beams of the bar and Kayce’s cabin are made of real wood, and every inch of these sets is decorated and dressed with meticulous attention.
While the interiors are shot in a studio, the exteriors are shot around the area in Park City. One of the most significant locations seems to be Thousand Peaks Ranch, where Sheridan filmed his first few seasons of Yellowstone and Wind River. Locations like the historic Ontario Mine serve as the exterior to the marshals’ headquarters, often filming on location when the team needs to head out of the office on a mission. On top of their typical filming locations, the production team also teased an upcoming train episode that is not only action-packed, but required that the production abide by federal regulations as they were filming on a real train.
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
The costumes the characters wear are also looked at closely, with some of them carrying over from Yellowstone. Grimes still wears the same boots, jeans, belt, and hat as Kayce did in the original show. The hat, which comes from the Colorado shop Greeley Hat Works, is one of a kind. In a recent shoot that took Kayce to New York, the hat had to be handled with care during transportation, lest our cowboy U.S. marshal end up losing a key part of his look permanently. The costuming department sources the other cowboy hats from the local hat store in Park City called Warbonnet, while belt buckles specific to each character and their rodeo sports are made by retired Judge Leo Smith in Texas. If clothes need to be aged to look more worn in, the costuming department also has that down on lock, doing everything from spattering clothes with blood to tying a pair of boots to the back of a van so they can be banged up and aged to look weathered and worn.
‘Marshals’ Ash Santos and Jefferson White Talk About the Show’s Biggest Win
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Sitting down with the cast of Marshals — sans Marshall-Green, who just happened to be taking the day off — is a wild experience. Especially as the panel of stars takes seats at the Bullet ‘n Barrell Saloon set, ready to dig into Season 2 of their CBS series. Alongside Grimes, Kebbel, Santos, Means, and Merrill is also Jefferson White, who is returning as Jimmy Hurdstrom from Yellowstone. For the large cast, the sophomore season is not only a boon but the increase of episodes is a sign of the network’s faith in the show.
Santos, who immediately gets emotional, reveals that when she got the news about Season 2 from showrunner Spencer Hudnut, she sobbed in her car, calling the renewal a “tremendous win” and mentioning that the show helped her buy a house for herself. “I’ll still cry about it today if I talk about it, because I just think it’s amazing. It’s wonderful,” she says, her voice cracking a little. “The show changed my life overnight — financially, personally, and professionally. It’s a huge gift, and it’s not happening to everyone right now across our industry. There’s a lot of actors who are unemployed, and a lot of crew members who are unemployed. So every day that I step on the set, I’m just grateful.”
White, who is joining the show as a guest star, also notes that the higher episode count means more roles not only on the cast but in the crew. “It’s a win for us personally, but it also makes me very proud and impressed with the work that these guys do to keep this show up and running, because there really is a trickle-down effect that affects everybody,” White explains. “Because of this show, so many more people get their insurance, so many more people get their union hours.” And despite a higher episode count meaning more work that might be ultimately more tiring, he calls the show “a win for the whole entertainment industry,” saying, “I’m very proud to be a small part of it, and incredibly impressed by the Herculean effort that these guys do.”
‘Marshals’ Cast Reveal the Franchise Character They Want Back on the Show
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Of course, because Marshals exists in the same universe as Dutton Ranch, Santos is quick to mention Reilly as one of her ideal guest stars on the show, an idea that’s not necessarily outside the realm of possibility considering both shows exist under the umbrella of Paramount. Less practical is Kebbel’s desire to see Sam Elliott on their series. Elliott played Shea Brennan, a Pinkerton agent tasked with helping the Dutton family move west in 1883, and while there’s no way his character could be in Marshals even if he had survived 1883, Kebbel still expresses wanting to see the iconic Western actor on the series.
Means mentions Tanaya Beatty who played Avery in Yellowstone, while Merrill gives a nod to Jen Landon‘s Teeter, and White wants to see Forrie J. Smith‘s Lloyd back to see how far Jimmy has come. For Grimes, the answer seems obvious and the one that has the largest potential of becoming a reality. “I’d like to see some flashbacks with Monica. She’s the most important character to my character other than, you know, this one right here,” he says, thumbing to Merrill seated next to him. “Obviously a lot happened that we didn’t get to see, so I think those would be really hard scenes, because they wouldn’t be the happiest, but I think it’d be great to just fill the audience in a little bit about how that all went out.”
But although he is still mourning his wife, that doesn’t mean that romance is completely out of the question, as Marshals is very clearly setting up a relationship between Kayce and Andrea. Grimes admits that he and Hudnut both knew that there would have to be a romantic interest for Kayce. But Grimes had a caveat. “I was like, it’s gotta take a long time, because let’s give Kayce and the audience some time to deal with Monica’s passing, and let’s really honor that and respect that,” Grimes explains. While it seemed obvious to them that his love interest would ideally be someone on the marshals team, Grimes isn’t interested in rushing into things. Comparing Kayce and Andrea to The Office‘s Jim and Pam, he calls the relationship a “real nice old-school slow play,” jokingly adding, “Let’s just really try and act like it’s not going to happen for a while. That’s been in the plans before there ever was a first script.”
‘Marshals’ Gil Birmingham Reveals Taylor Sheridan’s Past With the Lakota Tribe
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For Birmingham, who is returning to the role of Thomas Rainwater, the new series operates at a much faster pace. “You don’t have the time allotment to really play the characters out as much because the format is different.” But the show does offer a chance to explore the internal dynamics of the reservation more as Season 2 digs into the conflict between the people of Broken Rock and their opposition to Rainwater’s leadership.
“I’ve had conversations with Spencer, talking about storylines in that regard, how closely do these follow the culture itself, relationships, and how the tribe behaves toward the chairman, and the responsibilities the chairman has,” Birmingham explains. “I think that’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned is how heavy that load is. He’s responsible for the welfare — psychologically, spiritually, economically — and then you’re getting monetary influxes that are necessary to sustain, but cross a moral ambiguity, and makes it tough.”
The franchise has always been very conscious of the way it mingles the Duttons with the Native Americans of Broken Rock. Birmingham points out that when Sheridan was younger, he found clarity after sitting in a sweat lodge. “He was on a personal spiritual journey of his own. He was younger, and nothing really resonated for him until he did a sweat. And then the man who directed that sweat was saying, ‘Well, if you are apprehensive about this, let me refer you over to the Lakota people, and he got introduced to some elders there,” Birmingham explains.
“He lived over there for several years, and that’s where some of his stories come out of. He’s heard them, hundreds of them. Wind River spin out of that. So he has a real understanding of the culture.” However, Birmingham notes that Marshals faces challenges because Sheridan is not as closely involved. “We’re relied upon for collaborating, Mo [Brings Plenty], and I, Tatanka, with the native culture element. It’s just a learning curve,” he says, “because if you’re not immersed in it, if you’re not familiar with it, then you won’t really know how to depict these characters or their relationships.”
‘Marshals’ Mo Brings Plenty Teases a Personal and Emotional Storyline To Come
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Marshals also offers the opportunity for someone like Mo Brings Plenty to expand on his character a bit more, and Birmingham refers to him as a cultural anchor for the series, saying, “I don’t think Taylor was aware that Mo’s an elder in the Lakota nation,” and that Brings Plenty’s experience as a cowboy Indian will bring aspects of the culture that aren’t often portrayed in television. For Brings Plenty, the opportunity to expand his character also allows the show to explore more Native American storylines.
One personal story to Brings Plenty ties back to his recently deceased nephew, Cole Brings Plenty, who was reported missing in March 2024 and then found dead in a wooded area in Kansas a month later. For Brings Plenty, having a storyline on Marshals that reflects the frustration and struggle his family has had trying to figure out the truth of what happened to his nephew is pivotal. “It’s a storyline that has impacted our family very much, and we’re not the only family in this country that has experienced this situation,” he explains, referencing the upcoming Episode 6 “Roughstock” that will focus in on Mo bringing in Kayce to help investigate his missing nephew.
“I can’t wait for it to come out,” Brings Plenty says. “I’m hopeful that it’ll evolve into something that will spark an interest in this country, to get more people in society involved and care about what’s occurring to American Indian peoples throughout this country.” Although Brings Plenty acknowledges that it won’t bring his nephew back, the impact of the story could make a difference for the other young people in America.
“If we don’t start making noise about it or speaking to our senators or Congresspeople, then it’s something that will continue: the lawlessness. Because the wheels of justice don’t really turn for us as American Indian people, we have to get involved. It’s something that’s near and dear to my heart.” For Brings Plenty, the opportunity to highlight his culture and show more than just the stereotypical depiction of Native Americans is something he can be grateful to CBS for. “I’m thankful because a lot of networks wouldn’t take that chance. They wouldn’t be supportive of that,” he explains, pointing out that just seeing this representation at work means that “the good outlasts the bad.”
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