At 68 years old and with an amazing career in which he has succeeded as an actor, producer and director, in addition to having a personal fortune estimated at 250 million dollars, Kevin Michael Costner could devote himself to enjoying life peacefully. And yet, the brand new winner of a third Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries for his spectacular work in Yellowstone couldn’t have the most full schedule of him.
The saga started by his John Dutton III in 2018 together with the writer and director Taylor Sheridan has had excellent results and has helped the Paramount platform to become one of the most viewed in the United States. The success has served to revive the career of Costner, one of the few Hollywood stars who today can say that he has managed to maintain his relevance through five decades, and to demonstrate that the western as a genre can be immensely popular.
A savvy entrepreneur who has invested in restaurants, machines to separate oil from seawater and amusement parks, Costner knew this was the time to put an old dream into motion, a Wild West epic that is his most ambitious project ever. director. And that’s why in 2023 he’ll spend most of his time making it happen, leaving Yellowstone filming the exact hours Sheridan needs to move forward with the series.
The fifth season had an impasse on January 1 of this year, when it concluded its first half with the eighth episode. While fans anxiously await the announcement of a specific return date for the remaining six episodes, new rumors about a potential departure of the patriarch of the story emerge every day, linked to alleged confrontations between Sheridan and Costner due to the low availability of the show. actor.
But neither of them has spoken about the subject and the only certain thing is that the man who won two golden statuettes, one for best film and another for best director in 1991 for the extraordinary Dances with Wolves, is currently fully involved in the shooting in Utah of his fourth project as a director, in which Sam Worthington, Sienna Miller and Thomas Haden Church also participate. Horizon is set in a 15-year period that includes the Civil War.
The stakes are very high, and Costner, who is also the lead, co-writer and investor, has not settled for a single film, which will be about three hours long, but his plan is to film another three sequels with the same length. Once the four films featuring some 170 characters have hit theaters, the plan is to re-edit them to create a series with 42-minute episodes.
When the project was announced early last year, Kevin explained to the Deadline website: “America’s expansion to the west involved dealing with the dangers of the natural elements, interacting with the indigenous people who lived on those lands, and the determination and often cruelty of those who wanted to settle there. Horizon honestly tells the story of that trip, showing the different points of view and the consequences of decisions that were often life or death.
As dedicated to his work on the set as he is to his family when he’s home, Costner also has his hands full with his seven children. The youngest, the result of his second marriage to bag designer Christine Baumgarten, are 16, 14 and 13, respectively, but he also had another three with Cindy Silva, whom he met when he was at university, and who are now 39, 37 and 35. As well as a son from a brief relationship with Bridget Rooney, who is probably 27 today.
In an interview conducted in 2020, Costner stated: “I love my job, but it is not the most important thing in my life. That place is occupied by my family. That is why I always have to think before committing myself to a project, because I know it will take time. People know me from my movies or from the interviews I give, but I’m not that person. I don’t talk business with my kids unless they ask me and the same goes for my friends. It’s just that when I’m not filming I don’t see myself as an actor until someone reminds me.” And although he admitted then that when he is on a set he usually dedicates himself fully to what he wants to achieve, he shared that he always finds moments to share with his loved ones.
