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Since leaving “Yellowstone,” Hugh Dillon co-created “Mayor of Kingstown,” another Paramount series overseen by Taylor Sheridan. Dillon is also an executive producer on the series and is part of the main cast as Ian Ferguson, a cop willing to cross the line to keep his city in line. Despite his badge, he’s often taking orders from Jeremy Renner’s Jeremy McLusky, an ex-con who now finds himself as a middle man between the law and the city’s criminal underworlds, especially those conducted behind bars.
The world of “Mayor of Kingstown,” in which an entire town is run on the economy of prisons, is pulled from what Dillon grew up around. He revealed while promoting the show’s first season that he grew up in a town that was home to nine penitentiaries.
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“You know, as a kid, my mom was a teacher, my friend’s parents were prison guards, one was a warden, other friends were convicts, and it was, you know, in this perfectly cultivated civilized world, there’s this brutality and these institutions. So, as a kid, I was fascinated with it, and I remember I’d drive by with my parents, and I’d see the guard tower, and you think at five and six ‘oh that’s Disneyland,’ but it isn’t, it’s the polar opposite,” the actor told Newsweek.
On top of juggling multiple hats on “Mayor of Kingstown,” Dillon’s band Headstones also released a new album in October 2022 (per Spill Magazine).
