Kevin Costner shared his ideas on the best way Yellowstone dealt with his exit from the present within the season 5B premiere — and he has some notes.
The Oscar winner, 69, weighed in on the Paramount Community drama’s return throughout a Monday, November 11, interview on SiriusXM’s The Michael Smerconish Program. Earlier than reacting to the best way his character, John Dutton, died within the Sunday, November 10, episode, Costner claimed he didn’t even know the present was again.
“I’m going to be completely trustworthy. I didn’t understand it was truly airing final night time,” he stated. “That’s a swear-to-God second. I’ve been seeing adverts with my face all over and I’m considering, ‘Gee, I’m not in that one.’ However I didn’t notice yesterday was the factor.”
Costner went on to notice that he hasn’t seen the episode, however he does (type of) know the way sequence cocreator Taylor Sheridan wrote him off.
“I heard it’s a suicide, in order that doesn’t make me need to rush to go see it,” he stated.
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As viewers know, nevertheless, that’s not precisely what occurred. Sarah Atwood (Daybreak Olivieri) employed a hitman to off John as a result of she thought that’s what Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley) wished, and stated hitman solely made it look like suicide as a result of he thought that might be cleaner than staging a coronary heart assault. Whereas investigators appeared to purchase it, Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Kayce (Luke Grimes) instantly smelled a rat and suspected that their dad — who had no historical past of psychological well being points or dependancy — was murdered.
Regardless of not having seen the episode, Costner sensed that suicide wasn’t the entire story and famous he has religion in Sheridan’s potential to craft a extra complicated finish for his character.
“They’re fairly good individuals,” he stated. “Perhaps it’s a pink herring. Who is aware of? They’re excellent. And so they’ll determine that out.”
Earlier this week, director Christina Voros, who helmed the season 5B premiere, confirmed that Sheridan, 54, was the one that determined John Dutton’s destiny.
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“It’s Taylor’s world. He made the daring choice,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter in an interview revealed Sunday. “I believe Taylor’s choice to start this manner was extremely courageous. I believe it’s testomony to his religion within the characters and the actors who embody them to go, ‘Let’s not make this in regards to the incident. Let’s make this about how these human beings exist within the aftermath.’ That was extra fascinating to [Taylor] than the incident itself.”
Costner confirmed his exit from Yellowstone in June after over a yr of hypothesis about whether or not he’d be again for the present’s remaining batch of episodes. The drama started in early 2023 when rumors circulated that he and Sheridan have been at odds about filming schedules for season 5B, which was initially set to premiere in November 2023.
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Each side denied any dangerous blood on the time, and Yellowstone was additional delayed by the twin WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of final yr. Within the meantime, Costner turned his focus to his movie sequence Horizon: An American Saga, the primary a part of which hit theaters in June. Chapter 2 was initially set to premiere in August, however its launch date was indefinitely pushed again after Chapter 1’s poor efficiency on the field workplace.
Kevin Costner is formally finished with Yellowstone. “I simply need to attain out and allow you to know that after this lengthy yr and a half of engaged on Horizon and doing the entire issues that’s required, and desirous about Yellowstone, that beloved sequence that I really like and I do know you’re keen on,” Costner stated in […]
In Might, Costner lastly addressed the rumors about why he left the present, claiming that Sheridan had not written any scripts for 5B when he was referred to as again to movie.
“I gave them 25 of my days for this B factor in November and December [2022]. What they referred to as 5B. The entire month of March [2023],” he instructed Deadline on the time. “I didn’t shoot 5B. There was no script. After which issues imploded.”
Sheridan has not publicly addressed Costner’s claims.
Yellowstone airs on Paramount Community Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.