{"id":235522,"date":"2026-04-20T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/who-does-country-singer-riley-green-play-on-yellowstones-spinoff-marshals-role-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:10:36","slug":"who-does-country-singer-riley-green-play-on-yellowstones-spinoff-marshals-role-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/who-does-country-singer-riley-green-play-on-yellowstones-spinoff-marshals-role-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Does Country Singer Riley Green Play on Yellowstone\u2019s Spinoff \u2018Marshals\u2019? Role Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/yellowstone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Yellowstone<\/em><\/a>\u2018s <em>Marshals<\/em> spinoff has already featured guest appearances from country stars \u2014 but who does musician <strong>Riley Green<\/strong> play?<\/p>\n<p>During the Sunday, March 8,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/yellowstone-cast-where-are-they-now-amid-spinoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> episode of the <em>Yellowstone<\/em> spinoff<\/a>, Cal (<strong>Logan Marshall-Green<\/strong>) and Andrea (<strong>Ash Santos<\/strong>) shared a drink at the local bar \u2014 the Four Sixes \u2014 country singer Ashley Cooke performed her song \u201cNext to You\u201d on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Cooke\u2019s surprise cameo, it was announced that Green, 37, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/yellowstone-series-finale-recap-where-every-dutton-ended-up-before-marshals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will appear in multiple episodes<\/a> later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited to be joining the cast of Marshals. Being on set with my buddy Luke Grimes made the experience even more memorable,\u201d Green said in a statement in February. \u201cThis is my first go around in the acting space and I couldn\u2019t have asked for a better introduction to this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green will play former Navy SEAL Garrett, who arrives at the ranch hoping to lean on his friends Kayce Dutton (Grimes) and Cal to help \u201cput the demons of his past to rest,\u201d according to the official character description.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened really organically. It was through Luke Grimes, who\u2019s become a real good buddy of mine,\u201d Green told <em>People<\/em> earlier this month about how his role on the show came to be. \u201cHe\u2019s starting his music career and was starting to come to Nashville and doing some cowriting and stuff. I was trying to help him out in that world a little bit with some people that I knew. He was like, \u2018Man, you should try acting, you know? I think you\u2019d be good at it.\u2019 I was already kind of putting thought into that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.7%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Sonja Flemming\/CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Green <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/is-riley-green-single-what-we-know-about-his-love-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recalled everyone being<\/a> \u201cso welcoming\u201d to him on set as he balanced acting and performing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of my music career, other than writing new songs and adding things to a set, there\u2019s a lot of monotony of playing the same songs over and over again, showing in and out during a tour,\u201d he shared. \u201cThis is something that\u2019s brand new every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/yellowstones-kayce-dutton-spinoff-with-luke-grimes-airtime-what-to-know\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/yellowstonespinoff.jpg?crop=360px%2C144px%2C2406px%2C1356px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Yellowstone\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/yellowstonespinoff.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/yellowstones-kayce-dutton-spinoff-with-luke-grimes-airtime-what-to-know\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Everything to Know About Yellowstone&#8217;s Kayce Spinoff: Planned Cameos and More<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tThe next stop in the Yellowstone universe is a spinoff starring Luke Grimes\u2019 character, Kayce Dutton. Yellowstone, which premiered in 2018, introduced viewers to the fictional Dutton family, who own the largest ranch in Montana. After finding success on Paramount, creator Taylor Sheridan grew the Yellowstone world with prequels 1883 and 1923. CBS ordered Marshals, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After meeting with an acting coach, Green was taught not to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/marshals-recap-spinoff-mentions-yellowstone-character-after-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worry so much about the lines<\/a>\u201d and instead focus on responding \u201cto what the other person says.\u201d Green also teased how his character has \u201ca lot of vulnerability,\u201d in addition to his extensive military experience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019d been through a lot and had a lot of problems and that\u2019s not the easiest thing to just jump into,\u201d Green noted. \u201cI certainly think there would have been characters that would have been easier for me to sort of tap into that were more similar to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cThis guy was somebody that really had a lot of deep emotional problems from things that had happened to him in the past. And when you haven\u2019t lived those, you really kind of just rely on feedback from other people in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Marshals<\/em> airs on CBS Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/who-is-country-singer-riley-green-playing-on-marshals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellowstone\u2018s Marshals spinoff has already featured guest appearances from country stars \u2014 but who does musician Riley Green play? During the Sunday, March 8, episode of the Yellowstone spinoff, Cal (Logan Marshall-Green) and Andrea (Ash Santos) shared a drink at the local bar \u2014 the Four Sixes \u2014 country singer Ashley Cooke performed her song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}