"Him not coming back felt like, 'Okay, we're going to have to land this plane now for real,'" Grimes shares For Luke Grimes, the gravity of Kevin Costner's departure from his leading role in Yellowstone was not lost while filming the show's concluding episodes without him.

The actor told Newsweek about the show concluding without main man Kevin Costner and life after playing Kayce Dutton for seven years.

Taylor Sheridan's hit Western series, Yellowstone, finally returns this Sunday (November 10). In advance of the premiere, Luke Grimes – one of the show’s breakout stars and a rising country musician – sat down with Holler and disclosed how challenging it was to film the show’s final season without one of it’s main actors,

Luke Grimes is opening up about what it was like to film Yellowstone without Kevin Costner. The Paramount Network series continued filming the second part of Season 5 after Costner’s exit, and Grimes said the actor’s absence was felt.

The cast of Yellowstone felt lead actor Kevin Costner's absence deeply on set after his exit. Actor Luke Grimes, who plays Kayce Dutton, the son of Costner's character, John Dutton, revealed that the Hollywood star's decision to not return after nearly eight years working on the show instilled "a finality to it.