How did the ‘Yellowstone’ star react to her character being killed off on ‘The Marshals’?

The hits keep coming for the Dutton family.

The new “Yellowstone” spinoff, “Marshals,” kicked off with a bang on Sunday, by opening with the shocking revelation about Casey Dutton’s (Luke Grimes) wife, Monica (Kelsey Asbell). He died off screen After the events of Yellowstone.

“Obviously we can’t watch this guy live the life of his dreams,” Grimes, 42, said. “There’s no drama.” Entertainment Weekly.

“Something must happen that prevents him from getting that. Otherwise, why would he get a badge?” He said, pointing out how He returns to his military roots and joins the team From US Marshals to “Marshals”.

In the show, she developed cancer due to environmental toxins dumped on a Native American reservation.

“I was not expecting at all when I got the call that this was their idea,” Grimes said, referring to the plot point of killing Monica.

The former “True Blood” actor added, “And I felt two things at once. The first was that I felt so upset because Kelsey is one of my really good friends and the most amazing actress I’ve ever worked with. We’re really close, and for a while I couldn’t imagine doing this without her. I was like, ‘This doesn’t even make sense.’

He explained that he later realized that after Casey lost Monica, “There’s a big story there. Anyone in that kind of pain can do anything.”

“So, at the same time, I thought it was a good idea, even though it was heartbreaking,” Grimes said.

In an interview with TVLine Published on Sunday, Grimes said he felt “sad” for himself and Asbell, and that he “worked up the courage” to contact his former co-star.

“We had a great conversation. In true Kelsey fashion, she handled it like a professional and completely understood.”

“Yellowstone” aired on Paramount from 2018 to 2025, and was written by Taylor Sheridan. The hit drama centered on the Duttons, a wealthy ranching family in Montana, including a patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and his adult children, Casey, Beth (Kelly Reilly), and Jimmy (Wes Bentley). Casey’s wife, Monica, has been on the show for all five seasons.

Sheridan produces “Marshalls” but does not interfere much. “SEAL Team” alum Spencer Hudnut is the writer and director of the show.

“Marshals” follows Casey after the events of “Yellowstone,” when he becomes a widower and joins a team of U.S. Marshals led by an old military friend (Logan Marshall-Green).

“I actually didn’t think it would be a great idea,” Grimes said. Winding. “I think it was a combination of being in the mental space I needed to be in for that final episode and then the way the story ended for Casey, I felt like it was so perfect.”

According to the outlet, he changed his mind after Sheridan told him that Hudnut was “really smart and has really good ideas. I’m not telling you to do it and I’m not telling you not to do it, but you should definitely talk to him and go from there.”

Grimes and Hodnett have given contradictory statements on whether Monica’s death occurred due to story choice, or due to scheduling, as Hodnett also had. He told The Hollywood Reporter That Asbille was not available to be among the “Marshals”.

However, he made the move sound like a story choice, in an interview with TV Line.

“When I first met Luke, he was like, ‘Casey is really happy. Are we going to do a show about a really happy guy?’” “We had to change his life, to get him off the farm and into a new position,” Hudnut said.

There were other possible reasons for Monica being written off the show. Fans have hated the character for years, and There was controversy About whether the actress actually has a Native American background, as she claimed.

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“Marshals” airs Sundays at 8pm on CBS.