Luke Grimes hasnt spoken to Kevin Costner since his shocking Yellowstone departure: None of us saw it coming

Luke Grimes says he has not spoken to Kevin Costner following the Oscar winner’s bombshell exit from their hit TV series “Yellowstone.” “I haven’t talked to him since,” Grimes, 40, told Men’s Health MH Flex in a new interview published on Tuesday.“It’s not a case of any hard feelings or anything.

It’s just, he’s Kevin Costner.”Grimes played Kayce Dutton, the youngest son of Dutton family patriarch John Dutton (Costner) on “Yellowstone,” which aired its series finale on Sunday.“He’s a big deal,” Grimes added of Costner.“I do have his phone number — I just don’t feel like it’s my place to reach out.

He can reach out to me if he wants to.”Costner left the show as filming paused mid-way through its fifth season, owing to his desire to focus on making his two “Horizon: An American Saga” movies.It was also rumored that Costner’s decision was motivated by an alleged rift between him and “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan, 54.

The move shocked fans and Costner’s co-stars.“None of us saw it coming the way it did, and obviously there was news about possible blowups behind the scenes or whatever,” Grimes explained.

“But just like in life, man, these things happen, they happen fast, and they’re not predictable.”The second part of “Yellowstone” Season 5 opened with John Dutton’s death in a murder-for-hire plot.Costner has said he didn’t find out that John was killed off until the Season 5B premiere aired.For Grimes, Costner’s departure from the show brought up memories of his real-life father’s death.

“I lost my father a few years ago.It happened fast, and it was not the way that you would think that that would happen,” the “Fifty Shades of Grey” star recalled.

“In life, these things happen and then people have to start making decisions.And in our little ‘Yellowstone’ world, that helped ramp the show up into a boil.”Now that “Yellowstone” officially ended, Grimes has had t...