Taylor Sheridan has enjoyed finding roles for country singers on his shows — but could Luke Combs usweekly be next?
“If they just want me to play me, then great. I’m in,” Combs, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Time100 Gala on Thursday, April 23.
Combs noted that he wasn’t as sure about a scripted role.
“I don’t know if I’m a TV guy. I’ve got a face for radio,” he said. “I’ve been lucky for that. But I don’t know. I just try to have time for my wife and my kids and not over commit myself to things that maybe I don’t feel like I’m great at. Or maybe I would be good at it.”
The musician is already quite booked and busy, telling Us, “I just got so much going on with the music stuff. I want to give everything I have to that because I have such a big team and so many people that depend on me to make music and play shows and go out and do things for people. From employees to fans, I want to give everything I can to that.”
Recently, more and more country singers have made the transition to scripted TV roles. After playing himself on Tulsa King, Jelly Roll played a fictional character on season 3 of Fire Country, which marked his acting debut.
“[Jelly Roll] was finishing drying his hands with a towel in the bathroom at the CMTs [in April 2024]. I ran into him in the bathroom straight up at the CMT Music Awards,” Max Thieriot told Us in 2025 about how he “reached out first” to Jelly Roll after crossing paths at the CMT Music Awards. “I said, ‘Thank you for letting us have some of your songs on the show.’ And he’s like, ‘Dude, how do I get on the show? I’ve been petitioning online and talking to my people and you got to get me on that show.’ He said Fire Country is what he really represents. … He called me the next day and it showed how sincere he was.”
Thieriot, 37, credited Jelly Roll for being so collaborative.
“We worked on coming up with a character [for him] that we all thought would be interesting, unique and special and still. It tells some of the story about second chances and what he really represents,” he noted to Us. “But [it] also feels different from who he is and how people see him day to day as a country singer.”
He concluded, “I don’t know [if we will have more country singers]. I have to wait for the next awards show and I’m just going to set up a chair in the bathroom to start greeting them as they come in. But there’s a few that we’ve been talking with for a while now. Honestly, it would be fun to maybe see both [Kane and Jelly Roll] bring their characters back in some form.”
Over on CBS, star Riley Green joined in several episodes as a former Navy SEAL. Morgan Wade is also becoming part of the Sheridan universe when Dutton Ranch premieres in April.
Sheridan previously recruited Tim McGraw and Faith Hill to play fictional couple James and Margaret Dutton in the Yellowstone prequel series 1883, which ran from 2021 to 2022.
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