Kevin Costner. Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Pictures
Kevin Costner doesn’t want any extra drama in his life.
Costner, 69, candidly opened up about why he selected to verify his exit from Yellowstone final week after months of hypothesis about whether or not he would reprise his position as John Dutton in season 5B.
“It wasn’t powerful,” he stated of his Thursday, June 20, announcement. “It was a essential determination to say, ‘Hey, OK, I don’t wish to actually speak about this anymore. It’s time to maneuver on.’”
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Costner added, “I gave this factor 5 seasons. I used to be actually blissful to do it. And I don’t want drama. So, let’s simply take that drama away, let’s take the guessing [away]. The followers have been approach too good to me. And my obligation is to go on and proceed to make issues that imply one thing to them.”
The Yellowstone universe retains increasing, and the franchise’s flagship sequence is not any exception — Paramount renewed the present for a fifth season in February 2022. Starring Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly and Wes Bentley, the drama sequence premiered on the Paramount Community in June 2018. The fashionable western has since grow to be a phenomenon, inspiring a number of spinoffs […]
The actor clarified his Yellowstone future final Thursday simply hours after Paramount Community confirmed the hit drama’s last episodes will premiere on Sunday, November 10, at 8 p.m. ET after a prolonged delay. (The primary half of season 5 concluded in January 2023.) Paramount’s announcement made no point out of Costner, who has led the Yellowstone forged because the present’s inception in 2018.
Kevin Costner in ‘Yellowstone.’ Courtesy of Paramount +
“I simply wish to attain out and allow you to know that after this lengthy 12 months and a half of engaged on Horizon and doing all the issues that’s required, and serious about Yellowstone, that beloved sequence that I really like and I do know you like,” Costner stated in a video shared by way of X.
An replace for you guys. I’ll see you on the motion pictures. pic.twitter.com/DpuC5cOP6F
— Kevin Costner & MW (@modernwest) June 21, 2024
He continued, “I simply realized that I’m not going to have the ability to proceed season 5B or into the longer term. It was one thing that actually modified me. I liked it. And I do know you liked it. I simply wished to let you recognize that I gained’t be returning. I really like the connection we’ve been capable of develop, and I’ll see you on the motion pictures.”
Kevin Costner has welcomed seven kids with three companions over time. The California native began courting Cindy Silva in 1975 whereas they attended California State College, Fullerton. The pair tied the knot three years later and went on to welcome three little ones — Annie, Lily and Joe — born in 1984, 1986 and […]
Costner beforehand denied that his Yellowstone exit was the results of a feud with present cocreator Taylor Sheridan or his busy schedule with the four-part Horizon movie saga, the primary of which hits theaters on June 28.
“I’ve taken a beating from these f–king guys and I do know plenty of instances the place it’s coming from,” he instructed Deadline of the rumors in Could. “I simply elected to not get into that. But when you recognize me effectively sufficient, I made Yellowstone the primary precedence, and to insinuate anything could be flawed. I didn’t provoke any of these issues. They did.”
