Kevin Costner says making movies has ‘nothing to do with politics’

Kevin Costner shared his presumption that American authorities shouldn't person immoderate interaction connected however Hollywood movies are made.

Ahead of taking bureau connected Jan. 20, President Donald Trump named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight arsenic his peculiar ambassadors to Hollywood with the purpose of bringing backmost concern that helium said had been mislaid to "foreign countries." 

During an interrogation with Fox News Digital connected Saturday, Costner, 70, explained that helium didn't judge immoderate alteration was needed successful Hollywood with the advent of the Trump medication and filmmakers should absorption connected theater-goers erstwhile creating content.

"I deliberation you marque the champion movie you tin for an assemblage and recognize that…you person a chance. Every truthful often you person a accidental to bash thing meaningful," helium said portion attending Michael Rubin's Fanatics Super Bowl enactment successful New Orleans.

Kevin Costner believes that movie-making has "nothing to bash with politics." (Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage)

Costner continued, "And sometimes it's conscionable axenic fun. Movies don't person to beryllium important, but they person to person an assemblage successful mind." 

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"I deliberation it doesn't substance astir enactment successful [the] office," helium added. "It's astir the radical sitting successful the dark. It's got thing to bash with politics."

In June, Costner near his deed amusement "Yellowstone" owed to scheduling and declaration issues that were preventing him from focusing connected his four-part Civil War play "Horizon: An American Saga," which helium starred successful and directed. The histrion backed the movie bid with $38 cardinal of his ain money, calling it a passionateness task from astir 30 years ago.

Costner spent decades creating his four-part Western "Horizon: An American Saga." (Warner Bros.)

"Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1" was released successful theaters past August but disappointed astatine the container bureau and received mixed reviews from critics. On Friday, Costner premiered the 2nd installment astatine the Santa Barbara Film Festival, but a wider theatrical merchandise successful the U.S. has not been announced.

After "Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1" performed poorly astatine the container office, Costner defended the movie and asserted that audiences would travel to admit the saga implicit time.

"It's astir the radical sitting successful the dark. It's got thing to bash with politics."

"I've faced beingness with radical being dismissive of me," Costner told E! News. "But they can't beryllium dismissive of ‘Horizon,’ due to the fact that present it's retired of their hands. And they mightiness constituent to the decorativeness enactment – well, this is what it did astatine the container bureau – but I cognize that this movie is going to play for the adjacent 50 years."

"There's a infinitesimal successful clip wherever you privation [your children] to spot this movie," helium said. "To recognize that this is what their [ancestors] went through. It's not conscionable a Western, it's a past of migration and what they had to bash to survive. And I'm truly arrogant of it."

Kevin Costner, right, arsenic John Dutton successful the deed bid "Yellowstone." He near the play successful June 2024. (Paramount Network)

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During a February 2024 interrogation with Forbes, Costner, who antecedently directed the movies "Dances With Wolves," "Open Range," and "The Postman," explained his attack to filmmaking.

"I don’t play to my instrumentality basal arsenic overmuch arsenic I play to radical who are consenting to inactive spell to the theatre and instrumentality them to a spot they didn’t imagine," helium said. "I don’t disregard my fanbase connected immoderate level, but I don’t cater to the thought of anybody but myself, erstwhile it comes to a communicative that I privation to share."

The two-time Academy Award winner admitted that helium doesn't bask directing movies, saying that it "kills me."

The histrion said filmmakers should marque movies with the assemblage successful mind. (Getty Images)

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"There's lone 1 joyousness – that you’re going to spot the movie unfiltered," helium continued. "You’re going to spot it unvarnished – you’re going to spot it the mode I want, and it won’t beryllium manipulated. There won’t beryllium immoderate committee deciding, ‘Well, that’s excessively hard, oregon we request to spell faster here, oregon we request to bash that.’"

" I tried to arbitrate that for an audience. I effort to go the assemblage portion making it. I deliberation what radical don’t privation is to beryllium bored connected immoderate level, and I don’t deliberation they similar being talked down to," Costner added. 

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"I don’t deliberation that they flinch from the hard parts of beingness due to the fact that there’s not a idiosyncratic successful that theatre that isn’t bruised."