The ultimate epsiodes of Yellowstone had been simpler to movie following Kevin Costner’s exit, in keeping with one solid member.

Luke Grimes, who performs son Kayce Dutton to Costner’s John Dutton III within the Paramount drama collection, lately spoke to Esquire in regards to the temperature on set after Costner’s character was killed off following 5 seasons on the hit present. 

“Hopefully everybody can see that it was time,” Grimes, 40, informed the outlet in an interview printed Tuesday, Dec. 10. 

“To be actually trustworthy, there was part of Kevin being gone that meant a number of the battle was gone. Clearly, it didn’t make it tremendous enjoyable to be round. Not pointing any fingers, nevertheless it was really the simplest season we’ve filmed,” he stated of the present’s season 5’s second half. Costner departed the present after season 5’s first half.

A lot of the battle Grimes was referring to needed to do with Costner, 69, and collection creator Taylor Sheridan not seeing eye to eye amid the actor engaged on his personal Western epic, Horizon: An American Saga, which noticed an overlap in filming time.

“I don’t need to get down within the gutter with the Yellowstone factor however what I’m telling you is straight up. I’ve taken a beating from these f—— guys and I do know a variety of occasions the place it’s coming from. I simply elected to not get into that,” Costner beforehand informed Deadline.

“I made Yellowstone the primary precedence, and to insinuate anything could be mistaken,” he stated within the Might interview.

Regardless of the drama, Grimes added that Yellowstone had naturally run its course.

“It seems like good timing,” he stated of the collection coming to an finish. “Seven years is a very long time to do something, and I had by no means performed a personality for quite a lot of months earlier than.” 

The 50 Shades of Gray alum added that there have been nonetheless good occasions: “I’ve cherished all of it.”

 “However there is part of it that — when you learn these closing episodes — sees that there’s a finality to it. There’s all the time talks of spin-offs,” Grimes stated, noting that he’d be open to doing one.

“I’d do it [but] I simply don’t perceive how it will work as soon as the story ends. Kayce needs to cowboy and be joyful together with his household. He doesn’t need to kill individuals anymore. He doesn’t need the burden of an enormous mega ranch that isn’t sustainable in at present’s occasions. He needs his little slice of heaven. It’s that easy,” he stated of his character’s destiny. 

Grimes’ feedback to Esquire about Costner’s exit echoed statements he beforehand informed PEOPLE. 

“Him not coming again felt like, ‘Okay, we’ll need to land this aircraft now for actual,’ ” Grimes informed PEOPLE of the storyline.

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“I believe the patriarch leaving was all the time going to be a part of the story. That is all the time the place it was headed is like, what do these children do? What does this household do when their rock is gone?”

He additionally admitted that it “felt a little bit totally different” not having Costner round, calling the solid “a giant household now.”

All 5 seasons of Yellowstone are streaming on Peacock and Paramount+. The collection finale airs Saturday Dec. 15.