Luke Grimes, known for his role as Casey Dutton in Yellowstone and its spinoff The Marshalls, is facing unexpected backlash after leaving Hollywood to live out his life in Montana.
The actor told Joe Rogan that his move to the Big Sky State wasn’t always smooth sailing, and his move from Los Angeles caused unexpected anger among local residents.
“Well, a lot of shitty people moved out of there because of your show,” Rogan pointed out on the podcast.
“That’s true. Yeah, and they’re unhappy about it,” Grimes admitted. “We had some people come visit us in the valley where I live. Friends from California drove out and we went hiking and we were in their car and they had, you know, plates of Cali.”
“When I got off the hike, someone had written ‘go home’ in the dust of my car. People react very strangely to that, so I don’t tell anyone exactly where I am because they get really mad at me.”
The Hollywood actor explained that the tension has spilled over into the public sphere.
“I can’t go to that bar anymore because that idiot is in the bar and he can’t wait to start a fight with me and it’s like a win-win for him so he can’t wait to do that, right? He’s going to sue me or something. I don’t know, but that’s a loss for me,” Grimes said.
But moving to Montana was a personal choice for Grimes and his family.
At the February premiere of The Marshalls, the actor explained to Fox News Digital why he and his wife, Brazilian model Bianca Rodriguez, left Hollywood.
“I go there three or four months out of the year, and whenever I’m done filming, I come back here. It was more like leaving home than coming home,” he said.
The couple have one son, Rigel Randolph Grimes, and slowly fell in love with Montana over several years.
“It was just a gear change that happened slowly over a few years. Then my wife and I just fell in love with this place and decided to live there,” he added.
Grimes returns to the big screen as Casey Dutton in Taylor Sheridan’s latest expansion of the Yellowstone universe, The Marshalls.
According to the official synopsis, Dutton “combines his skills as a cowboy and a Navy SEAL to join an elite force of U.S. marshals to bring Ranger justice to Montana. There, he and his teammates must balance family, duty, and the high psychological costs that come with their role as the last line of defense in the fight against violence in the region.”
