Kevin Costner has lastly damaged his silence following the surprising Yellowstone finale and rumors about behind-the-scenes tensions together with his former co-star Luke Grimes.
The 69-year-old Hollywood legend, who exited the hit sequence amid a much-publicized rift with showrunner Taylor Sheridan, stepped out in Aspen simply days after the closing episode aired—an episode that delivered a gut-wrenching farewell to his iconic character, John Dutton.
In a candid video shared by DailyMail.com, Kevin stored his ideas on the finale transient however telling, saying: “I’m not enthusiastic about it, I don’t suppose I’ve given it any ideas, we’ll simply let it go.”
The remark got here simply weeks after viewers noticed John Dutton killed off in a devastating murder-for-hire plot, staged to seem as a suicide—a transfer that despatched shockwaves by way of the Yellowstone fanbase.
Kevin additionally addressed the hypothesis surrounding his alleged feud with Luke, who performed his on-screen son, Kayce Dutton. Requested whether or not they’ve spoken for the reason that finale aired, the Dances With Wolves star merely shook his head and shut the door on the query.
Luke, nevertheless, has been extra vocal in current interviews about Kevin’s departure and the shift it induced on set. Final week, the 40-year-old actor opened up about how the absence of Yellowstone’s patriarch lightened the ambiance throughout manufacturing.
“Hopefully everybody can see that it was time,” Luke advised Individuals, acknowledging Kevin’s exit from the neo-Western drama. “To be actually sincere, there was part of Kevin being gone that meant a few of the battle was gone. Clearly, it didn’t make it tremendous enjoyable to be round… Not pointing any fingers, nevertheless it was really the simplest season we’ve filmed.”
© ParamountWhen pressed about his present relationship with Kevin, Luke revealed to Males’s Well being that the 2 haven’t been involved since filming wrapped. “No, I haven’t talked to him since. It’s not a case of any arduous emotions or something; it’s simply, he’s Kevin Costner,” Luke mentioned with amusing. “He’s an enormous deal. I do have his cellphone quantity—I simply don’t really feel prefer it’s my place to achieve out. He can attain out to me if he desires.”
Reflecting on the fallout of John Dutton’s abrupt demise, Luke admitted that the twist got here as a shock not solely to followers but in addition to the forged. “None of us noticed it coming the way in which it did,” he confessed. “Clearly there was information about potential blowups behind the scenes or no matter. However identical to in life, man, these items occur. They occur quick, and so they’re not predictable.”
© Paramount/Kobal/ShutterstockLuke, who tragically misplaced his personal father a number of years in the past, discovered a way of realism within the sudden lack of John Dutton. “It’s like life—you lose individuals, and it’s typically not the way you deliberate or while you suppose it’s going to occur,” he mentioned. “In our little Yellowstone world, that helped ramp the present up right into a boil.”
The Yellowstone finale was met with blended feelings from followers, a lot of whom felt blindsided by John’s destiny. Initially, the present revealed his demise as a suicide, a twist that almost all viewers refused to simply accept. It was later clarified that John’s demise was orchestrated as a part of a murder-for-hire scheme, staged to seem as self-inflicted.
© ShutterstockSome viewers have been deeply moved, praising the conclusion as poetic and becoming, whereas others have been lower than impressed, evaluating it unfavorably to the notorious Sport of Thrones finale.
One dissatisfied fan, @JustinRaley_15, declared, “It’s official. Sport of Thrones is not the worst closing season of any TV present ever. Yellowstone has taken that award.”
Addressing the backlash, Luke mentioned: “I feel there’s been some detrimental reactions. Individuals really feel form of cheated. However I might say, we have been all fortunate to have Kevin on the present so long as we did.” He went on to share that Taylor initially deliberate for John Dutton’s demise to occur a lot earlier within the sequence. “So, in a approach, they obtained far more of John Dutton than they have been going to initially get. I might preserve that in thoughts.”
