{"id":244439,"date":"2026-06-05T10:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/dutton-ranchs-marc-menchaca-reveals-if-hes-worried-about-zachariahs-death-amid-surprise-twists\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:16:24","slug":"dutton-ranchs-marc-menchaca-reveals-if-hes-worried-about-zachariahs-death-amid-surprise-twists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/dutton-ranchs-marc-menchaca-reveals-if-hes-worried-about-zachariahs-death-amid-surprise-twists\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutton Ranch\u2019s Marc Menchaca Reveals If He\u2019s Worried About Zachariah\u2019s Death Amid Surprise Twists"},"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 spinoff <em>Dutton Ranch<\/em> is not holding back when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/yellowstone-cast-where-are-they-now-amid-spinoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shocking character deaths.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During an exclusive interview with <em>Us Weekly<\/em>, <strong>Marc Menchaca<\/strong> weighed in on whether the deadly twists on the show had him worried about his character Zachariah\u2019s fate, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s always a possibility \u2014 and I have a pretty good track record of saying bye bye on a show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Menchaca poked fun at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/yellowstones-dutton-ranch-shows-devastating-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> his bad luck on screen.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife [Lena Headey] made a death reel for me for my birthday this last year. It was about 10 minutes and it didn\u2019t even have all my deaths,\u201d he quipped. \u201cSo I was a little bit [worried].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI was like, \u2018They may take me out so I better get on everybody\u2019s good side.\u2019 Hopefully it won\u2019t happen but the way things are now, you get these scripts just a little bit before. Then you start going through and you\u2019re like, \u2018Is it gonna happen next scene?\u2019 Thankfully it has not [yet].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Yellowstone<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/marc-menchaca-teases-dutton-ranch-cameo-from-lena-headey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initially introduced viewers<\/a> to the Dutton family in 2018. The Paramount Network show came to an end in 2024, expanding its universe with <strong>Luke Grime<\/strong>s\u2019 CBS show <em>Marshals<\/em> and <em>Dutton Ranch<\/em>, which premiered in May.<\/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\">Lauren Smith\/Paramount+.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Dutton Ranch<\/em> has introduced some new characters played by <strong>Annette Bening and Ed Harris<\/strong>. Other newcomers include<strong> Jai Courtney, Natalie Alyn Lind, Juan Pablo Raba, J. R. Villarreal<\/strong> \u2014 and Menchaca\u2019s Zachariah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a cowboy that they trashed around and he\u2019d go work on ranches here and there. He was just one of those guys who rodeo and work to get by. That\u2019s the part of the cowboy life that\u2019s the whole core,\u201d he noted. \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly exciting because you never know what\u2019s going to happen \u2014 either on the back of a bucking horse or if you\u2019re out roping. There\u2019s an element of surprise always around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Menchaca built out the idea from there, saying, \u201cHe was addicted to that cowboy life, and then once I found out about what did end up happening that sent him to prison, that kind of brought everything together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/most-heartbreaking-2025-tv-deaths-from-9-1-1-to-ransom-canyon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filming <em>Dutton Ranch<\/em> allowed<\/a> Menchaca to connect with his roots.<\/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>\u201cI grew up that life. I just took from ranchers that I worked for,\u201d he shared. \u201cI wanted to be a team roper when I was a kid and it brought my childhood back to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Menchaca teased what is yet to come, adding, \u201cObviously there\u2019s going to be tension. It definitely creates tension and we will find out that there are some things about the 10 Petal that are unbecoming of a country boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Dutton Ranch<\/em> airs Fridays on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/dutton-ranchs-marc-menchaca-weighs-in-on-possible-onscreen-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellowstone\u2018s spinoff Dutton Ranch is not holding back when it comes to shocking character deaths. During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Marc Menchaca weighed in on whether the deadly twists on the show had him worried about his character Zachariah\u2019s fate, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s always a possibility \u2014 and I have a pretty good track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244439","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\/244439","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=244439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}