[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for “Yellowstone” Season 5, Episode 9, “Desire Is All You Need.”]
As soon as a cowboy, all the time a cowboy.
Although Kevin Costner made a really public exit from the sequence earlier this 12 months, it seems “Yellowstone” wasn’t fairly completed with him, nor his character, ranching household patriarch John Dutton. In final night time’s premiere, Dutton was discovered useless in obvious suicide, however clearly there are a lot of questions nonetheless to be answered and truths to be found. Commenting on this reveal throughout a particular stay, city corridor version of “The Michael Smerconish Program” on SiriusXM, Costner admitted that he didn’t even know the second half of Season 5 was lastly premiering.
“Effectively, I’m going to be completely sincere. I didn’t realize it was truly airing final night time,” Costner stated. “That’s a swear to God second. I swear to God. I imply, I’ve been seeing adverts with my face in all places and I’m pondering, ‘Gee, I’m not in that one.’ I’m not on this season. I’ve been seeing, however I didn’t notice yesterday was the factor. My focus has been on what I used to be having to do, and I’ve received just a few calls to make. So that you assume — typically I’m like only a passenger in my life, you realize, there’s loads occurring. And any individual stated, you realize, it performed final night time? And I stated, ‘Hmm, okay.’ So no, I came upon about it this morning truly.”
Sadly, Costner didn’t have time to catch the episode himself, however was relayed some data on what befell his character — data that made him even much less focused on truly watching.
“I didn’t see it. I heard it’s a suicide, in order that doesn’t make me wish to rush to go see it,” stated Costner.
Smerconish commented that John Dutton didn’t appear to be a “suicide type of man” and certainly the episode implies it was truly a success ordered out by adopted son Jamie Dutton, most probably vengeance for his father continually stepping over him. Certainly, Costner additionally didn’t appear satisfied Dutton’s dying was a suicide, however appeared to not care an excessive amount of by some means.
“Effectively, they’re fairly sensible folks,” Costner stated of the inventive time behind “Yellowstone,” together with Taylor Sheridan. “Possibly it’s a pink herring. Who is aware of? They’re superb. And so they’ll determine that out.”
No phrase but on when Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga — Half 2” will lastly be launched, however in keeping with Deadline, he’s already underway on a brand new venture he plans to co-write and star in known as “Headhunters.” In keeping with the official synopsis, Costner will play “a washed-up American expat with a mysterious previous who winds up dwelling in Bali, Indonesia. He gathers a gaggle of surfers led by an area photographer to search out the proper wave at an uncharted island — which winds up being the domicile of an historic tribe of headhunters who’re defending their land in any respect prices.”