Lengthy earlier than he donned a cowboy hat, a checkered shirt, and a gun holster for Westerns like Yellowstone and Horizon, Kevin Costner was doing the identical in his childhood residence.
The actor turned 70 on Saturday, January 18, and marked the event on Instagram with a uncommon throwback to his youth: a black-and-white picture of him as a child, wearing a cowboy costume,
“Thanks guys for the birthday needs,” Costner wrote in his Instagram caption. “For those who can consider it, that is me. I used to be chasing the cowboy life nearly as quickly as I might stroll, and right here I’m doing it nonetheless. Right here’s to a different yr of holding our sights set on our desires.”
Costner’s milestone birthday comes amid profession uncertainty for the Dances With Wolves Oscar winner. He left Yellowstone halfway by way of the Paramount Community hit’s fifth season amid a rumored falling out with EP Taylor Sheridan over scheduling points as he tried to shoot a four-part movie sequence known as Horizon: An American Saga.
However then Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 debuted to middling opinions and worse field workplace, getting a 51% Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes and solely $38.2 million on the worldwide field workplace in opposition to a reported price ticket of $100 million.
After these disappointing outcomes, Costner’s Territory Photos and distribution companion New Line Cinema opted to postpone the discharge of Chapter 2, which was as a consequence of arrive in theaters in August 2024 and is presently off the calendar.
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Chapter 2 did get a screening on the Venice Movie Competition in September, nevertheless, and Costner stated on the time that he was nonetheless planning to shoot the ultimate two movies within the sequence, together with what he known as the “devastating” third chapter.
“I don’t know the way I’m going to make 3 proper now,” he advised reporters at a press convention on the movie competition, per Selection. “However I’m going to make it.”
He additionally sounded off on Chapter 1, saying, “It didn’t have overwhelming success. I’ve had quite a lot of films that manner, which have stood the take a look at of time.”
He added: “Typically when issues don’t come to us simply, we need to simply step away. However there’s one thing in me that solely will increase my need when one thing is just not working. It’s a narrative, it’s a chunk of leisure that I believe can stand the take a look at of time. Once I really feel rejection, in contrast to anyone else, after I open my eyes from my disappointment, my need is simply elevated.”