“I introduced five of them and got tuxedos, bought them clothes. You know, I wanted to know… that they would stay with me and help me,” Costner said as he brought his children to the Cannes premiere of his new film, ‘Horizon.’
Kevin Costner is opening up about her rare family outing in Cannes Film Competition.
Costner talked about bringing 5 of his seven children with him to the premiere of his new film, Horizon: An American Saga on Sundayover a glance Jimmy Kimmel Hooray! Tuesday.
“I introduced five of them and got tuxedos, bought them clothes. You know, I wish I knew… that they would stick with me and help me,” the Yellowstone alum said.
Costner posed on the pink carpet at the French pageant alongside his daughters Annie, 40, and Lily, 37, who he shares with ex-wife Cindy Silva, as well as his youngest children, Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 13. , which he shares with ex-wife Christine Baumgartner. The 69-year-old actor is also father to Joe, 36, from his marriage to Silva, and son, Liam, 28, who he shares with ex-girlfriend Bridget Rooney.
Although the family photos were indeed perfect, Costner said his trip to France didn’t exactly go as planned.
“As soon as we got there, my two sons went fishing. My three daughters were on a ship and they said they would see me around three or four o’clock… and then I got a call and they were drinking drinks at that level, so they sailed around eight o’clock. at night,” Costner said. “I said, ‘We came to France to be a family,’ they said, ‘It’s working well, Dad, what do we do next?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, we’d like a tour director to figure this out.'”
Costner also took a moment to get emotional about his son, Hayes, with whom he starred. Horizon.
“Listen, I know these ingredients are so important in people’s careers, so I don’t just hand them out like candy,” he said of the film’s casting. “It was one thing for me to have him with me.”
Kevin stars as Hayes Ellison in the film, which he began working on in 1988. After naming his son Hayes years before, he knew he wanted the teenager to be in it once he began producing last year.
“In 2024, I’m finally getting it. However, I named my son Hayes. And he was 13 and I thought he should really do this movie. And I looked him over and said, ‘You know, I’d like you to be in this movie,’ Costner recalled. “It is a devastating moment. It’s a moment you never have to experience, but the choice he makes will also leave you with a lump in your throat. While you see what he does.
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He added: “And films can be about that. They go. They are often about things we never overlook if you get them right.
Cannes viewers seemed to assume so, giving Costner a 10-minute break standing ovation when the film premiered on Sunday.
“I actually had no idea what was going to happen. They (the audience) were very quiet through most of this,” Costner told Kimmel. “I actually started to rewind my life for a second. I kind of went back to the beginning, wondering how I ended up in a place like that. We all have these goals of where we want to be and I had my own and I took some really big bites out of life and life took some away from me. But I just kind of kept going and… they started clapping and didn’t stop.”
Although he was seen with tears in his eyes as the class applauded his first directorial change in more than ten years, Costner insisted he was not crying.
“I didn’t fucking cry. My eyes were full,” he joked. “But I was moved by what happened in France. I was thrilled with the biggest film festival in the world.”
The first chapter of the Horizon saga hits theaters on June 28th, while Chapter 2 will be released on August 16th.