Yellowstone‘s The Marshals the spinoff has already featured guest appearances from country stars — but who’s doing the singing Riley Green play?
Sunday, March 8, episode of Yellowstone spiff, Cal (Logan Marshall-Greenand Andrea (Ash Santos) shared a drink at the bar – Four Sixes – country singer Ashley Cooke performed her song “Next to You” on stage.
Before Cooke’s surprise, it was announced that Green, 37, would appear in more episodes later in the season.
“I’m so excited to be joining the cast of The Marshals. Meeting my friend Luke Grimes made the experience even more memorable,” Green said in a statement in February. “It was my first time around the acting scene and I couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to the world.
Green will play ex-Navy SEAL Garrett, who arrives at the ranch hoping to lean on his friends Kayce Dutton (Grimes) and Cal to help “put to rest the demons of his past,” according to the official character description.
“It happened naturally. It came from Luke Grimes, who has become a good friend of mine,” Green said. People earlier this month about how his participation in the program. “He was starting his music career and he was starting to come to Nashville and do some writing and stuff. I was trying to help him in that world a little bit with other people I knew. He was like, ‘Man, you should try acting, you know? I think you’re going to do well.’ I was just putting some thought into that.”
Green recalled that everyone was “very accepting” of him during his time on set as he weighed in on acting and acting.
“A lot of my musical work, apart from writing new songs and adding things to the set, there’s a lot of fun playing the same songs over and over again, showing in and out of the tour,” he shared. “This is something brand new every day.”
The next stop in the Yellowstone universe is a spinoff featuring Luke Grimes’ character, Kayce Dutton. Yellowstone, which premiered in 2018, introduced viewers to the fictional Dutton family, who own a large ranch in Montana. After finding success at Paramount, creator Taylor Sheridan expanded the world of Yellowstone with the prequels 1883 and 1923. CBS ordered the Marshals, […]
After meeting with the acting coach, Green was taught to “not worry so much about the lines” and instead focus on responding to “what the other person is saying.” Green also teased that his character is “very vulnerable,” in addition to his extensive military experience.
“He’s been through a lot and he’s had a lot of problems and it’s not an easy thing to just jump into,” Green noted. “Of course, I think there would have been actors that would have been easier for me to get into who were more like me.”
He continued: “This guy was someone who had a lot of deep emotional issues because of things that happened to him in the past. And if you haven’t lived through that, you just rely on the reactions of other people in the room.”
The Marshals airs Sundays on CBS at 8 pm ET.
