All right, we are back now with a Hollywood legend,
Kevin Costner, a star in so many iconic films from
Field of Dreams,
proving if you build it they will come two Dances
with Wolves which earned 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture
and Best Director for Kevin.
Well now his latest endeavor is Horizon,
an American saga. It's a four part film about pioneers
settling in the West.
A dangerous time when you never knew who you might
meet along the way.
Everyone in that house. He might as well have been
walking up to get the mail for all that bothered
him.
Now they had a second loss,
and they're this much farther out of their way.
Can't imagine it'll be any kinder to you this time.
So they'll just kill me then
right out in front of everyone?
No, they'll probably take you somewhere quiet,
won't they?
Kevin, Good morning. Thanks for being here.
Yeah, That's kind of a severe way.
It's our Shakespeare. Yeah. He didn't have to go out
and say it.
He just let you fill in the blanks.
Yeah. I mean, this is truly,
in every sense of the word,
an epic that that needs to be seen on a
on a big screen.
You conjured this up in
1988. Thought about this. You you put your own money
into it.
You Co wrote it. You directed it.
What has this journey been like
getting this finally to the big screen?
It's it's it's really been a it's not the first
time for me.
There's a lot of the films I like.
What will there be? Field of Dreams or Bull Durham?
They were very tough to get made too.
It's just, it's like, well,
you know, minor League Baseball
voices in a field, you know,
you know, I did a movie called Black and White,
not my version of racism.
And I couldn't get anybody to do it.
So I put up the $6 million to do it.
So I, I think I am probably the only person
I know that pays to work,
you know, but I, I don't think what I like
is that far off what other people do.
But if someone says you can't do it,
then that's AII can't just somehow turn my back on
what it is I dream about.
I can't I can't legitimize
a, a, a voice that makes no sense to me,
you know, and so. And that's your family,
man. I was reading this morning.
I thought it was pretty nice.
Like as a director, you're open to having people on
the set.
Like I read, you know,
from actors, parents, maybe your own dog or,
you know, why is it important?
I can imagine some people would say no,
you know, push everybody out.
Yeah, I let people kind of come in.
Well, listen, you can, you can really scare people off
by like,
woo, it's voodoo. He's a genius.
He's a thing. He's been a curtain.
And you got like, yeah,
you know, it's like, no,
there's there's actors out here that have parents that wanna
see them.
So if they wanna come see you,
come watch the monitor with me sitting this.
I don't care. It is a workstation for me.
So just kind of keep it down.
But if I I don't close things off to people,
I don't like throwing up a wall around my good
luck.
Yeah. One thing I also saw you guys filmed or
tried to film in some pretty crazy always weather.
Yeah, no, that helped get everybody into like the feel
of what it was like we had we we were
holding on to everything that was storms.
I I'm making a a six hour.
Go figure.
I'm making a one hour document.
No, I'm not just say it's the truth.
I'm making a six hour documentary about what it took
to make this.
You know that that you know,
and so, you know, when you think about Oscars or
you think about anything for a second,
you know, sometimes I think the Oscars,
well, what are they really about?
And I think to myself,
it's like, you know, it's when
someone watches, it should be either about like,
oh, I'm going to go see some movies that I
never saw,
or
I'm going to make movies.
I'm going to do this as a business.
You know, I have a lot of passion for it.
I understand what it can do,
what it can mean. And when movies are at their
very best,
they can be about moments we'll never,
ever forget. You know, it's we want people to watch
the movie.
So we don't want to give away too much.
But one of the things that that I enjoy is
in this particular Western Western,
you include lots of different voices that that
aren't usually featured in Westerns.
We'll just leave it at that so folks can watch
it.
But I do want to ask you about Father's Day.
How was it? How would you do?
I celebrated on Saturday because I knew it was flying
in New York on Sunday.
But no, I was with,
with the kids and then the earth got up early
in the morning 'cause I knew I was going to
fly.
So does anybody want to go swimming?
And everybody came out. We were in the pool.
So
it's just being together. It was a it was a
good moment.
And then I kissed them all and and came to
New York.
Yeah, I know you've you've you've got grandkids.
I just finally had my first.
What is it? What is it so special about a
grandfather
on Father's Day? I think watching how your children are
mothers and fathers.
You're watching the grandchildren, but you're really watching how your
children
are taking care of them.
Can you relate? I can now.
I
can now. That was great.
That was great. Thank you so
much. Thank you so much for being here.
You're welcome. That's right. And Horizon and American Saga Chapter
One in theaters June 28th,
Chapter 2 out in August.
Chapter three, one Chapter three.
I've started to film it already,
so I don't know what what date we'll perk it.
But, you know, one of the weird things that came
out of making this was I,
I'm going to have my gun fights.
But women dominate horizon. Hmm.
And if you see it,
you'll realize that that there was no W without women.
And their voices are that's why I took them all
to con with me out there.
Right. Yeah. Because the what they,
how they highlight this show.
So I I do hope you get out of the
sun,
get into someplace shady, Yeah.
And dark and cool and go West.