While other members of his Montana ranch family deal with their own existential threats and scheme over solutions to internal power struggles, Kayce Dutton sweats out a life-altering four-day solo vision quest on the Broken Rock Indian Reservation. That’s how Season 4 of the No. 1 TV drama Yellowstone comes to a close, and it’s a fitting microcosm of the Dutton family’s story since it began with the show’s 2017 premiere.
Yellowstone is a show rooted in conflict on every level of the human experience. Between the ranch dynasty of patriarch John Dutton (played by Kevin Costner), the Native American tribe led by Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), and the corporations and financial entities trying to make development in-roads, there’s rarely a peaceful moment in creator Taylor Sheridan’s fictional West. But again, Kayce Dutton is at least trying to find some inner peace. That’s one thing to which Luke Grimes — the 38-year-old actor playing Kayce — can relate.
The Ohio native has starred since the beginning as the Dutton son who feels torn between preserving his dad’s legacy and protecting the happiness of his own wife and son (played by Kelsey Asbille and Brecken Merrill). The character may be unsure about his way forward, but Grimes now finds himself more settled and at peace than ever. He and his wife of nearly five years, Brazilian model Bianca Rodrigues Grimes, are now Montana residents, having put down stakes in a rural area very near to where much of the show is filmed.
“I tried to keep it under wraps where I was building my house out here. But when you live in a place this small, everyone knows. It was a fool’s
