00:00You're opening yourself up to a whole new, you know, side with your acting role in Marshalls.
00:07I know you and Luke spoke about your acting aspirations, but can you tell me a little bit about how
00:13your role came to be?
00:16Well, yeah, me and Luke were riding in Nashville.
00:19And I guess I mentioned that I was, you know, thinking about getting into acting a little bit, maybe had
00:24some things that I'd read for.
00:26And kind of without my knowing, he'd gone and he had this show in the works and he kind of
00:32wrote me apart.
00:34Me not knowing the part was necessarily written for me.
00:37I just I knew I was going to get an opportunity at it.
00:40You know, I fly out to Utah and read with him.
00:43And he was like that the whole process.
00:46I mean, it's probably not often that the main character of a show reads with one of the guys trying
00:54out for some small role.
00:55But he was he was that helpful to me.
00:58And I was so lucky that my intro into acting was a show I got to do with somebody that
01:04not only I'm great friends with, but somebody that's that talented because you can't help but learn when you're around
01:09somebody like that.
01:09And I love that it happened organically like that.
01:13Just, you know, two guys kind of talking about something they'd like to try doing.
01:16I still can't believe they made you audition for this role when you're it was clearly written with your sensibilities
01:25in mind.
01:26After all this time, you just figured you'd show up in Montana unannounced, huh?
01:30Well, I felt to call him to head west, see how my old teammate was doing.
01:33It was a whole lot easier for me to go read with Luke, you know, on set, you know, and
01:39he helped me so much doing that.
01:41But I saw an interview where he was kind of joking about, man, we made him, you know, made him
01:47read for it.
01:49And I thought I was I mean, that didn't seem strange to me.
01:51I thought I'm the new guy here, you know, certainly because I've had a music career doesn't mean that I'm
01:57any good at acting.
01:57So I was glad that I got to go read because it gave me a little confidence that they said,
02:03OK, you're good enough to do it, you know, because I have no clue if I'm going to be any
02:06good or, you know, and I'm also glad that I read because I wouldn't want to be given a part
02:11because of something I've done in music.
02:14You know, I want to somewhat earn it if I can.
02:16And I think I skipped a lot of steps by getting a part like this is my first gig.
02:22But I'm very thankful that I that I was given that opportunity.
02:26Garrett is such a complex character.
02:29He's a veteran suffering from PTSD and struggling to really find his place in the world.
02:36Come on, Robert.
02:37Garrett, I'm coming.
02:38Hey, you're good.
02:39Garrett, hey.
02:40Get off me.
02:41Get off me.
02:42Garrett, get off.
02:47Get off me.
02:48Garrett.
02:49How did you prepare for this role?
02:51Well, it's certainly something that I wanted to get right, you know, and try to do justice to
02:56when you're talking about something this serious, which is, you know, somebody that served in the military and having PTSD
03:01and how to go about that.
03:02I have no experience with that.
03:05I found I just needed to lean on people that had been through something like that and really lucky that
03:10there were some Navy SEALs on set that we could kind of, you know, pull aside and ask questions about
03:15and certainly how to move in certain situations.
03:17And them sharing stories with me about some of the guys that they'd worked with and served with and some
03:23things they'd been through were helpful to me.
03:25Obviously, you're friends with Luke.
03:27The world of Yellowstone is so vast.
03:30Were you familiar with the universe before stepping into Marshalls?
03:34Yeah, I mean, I think I watched everything that was out like everybody else did.
03:38And certainly all of the Taylor Sheridan shows and movies that I've seen over the last few years have something
03:45pretty special sprinkled on them or they wouldn't be doing what they're doing.
03:48And 1883, seeing how good Tim McGraw was in that, that's probably what got me interested in acting was, you
03:56know, I've got to know Tim over the years.
03:59And I think I had in my head that acting was something you were born able to do.
04:04You know, you went to drama and theater class and you were in plays and I didn't do that.
04:08I was playing three sports through school and did construction work.
04:12And when I realized that it's something that, you know, I think Tim learned and certainly learned well.
04:18I mean, he's one of my favorite in that show.
04:20And I think it gave me an idea that maybe it was something I should try.
04:24At some point, we will get to hear you perform my way.
04:29If I had it my way.
04:31Turn you into a cowboy yet.
04:35If I had it my way.
04:37What was it like filming that fireside with Luke?
04:40That was something that was probably more comfortable than anything else.
04:44I didn't know I was going to perform.
04:46So I found out, you know, that there was a spot in this next episode where I could perform a
04:50song.
04:51So I really tried to find a song, not that I was trying to promote, but something that fit what
04:56was going on in the scene at that time.
04:58And lyrically, that song really, in my head, made sense.
05:01And there was no direction given to me other than this is the script.
05:04This is what's going on, which I thought was awesome.
05:07They gave me that ability to do it.
05:10But it was what was really great about it was I was sitting there playing this song for three or
05:16four people that I kind of just met like you would if you were at a campfire, you know.
05:19So it was it was a really real organic kind of performance that I think will hopefully will show through
05:26in a show.
05:28Obviously, we can't get into spoilers, but what can you tease about Garrett's arc?
05:32Well, I can certainly say that although he's not a cowboy, what he finds on the ranch with Casey and
05:43the teams is similar in a lot of ways to what Casey found when he joined the marshals was a
05:52sense of purpose.
05:53And, you know, if nothing else, a distraction from all the things in the past that, as we're finding out,
05:59you know, really kind of took their toll on all three of them.
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