Kevin Costner’s On-Set “Clashes” With Clint Eastwood & Kurt Russell Explained
Kevin Costner is one of the most celebrated actors of the last 50 years, but he had some notorious clashes with Clint Eastwood and Kurt Russell. Costner began his acting career in the early ’80s, playing small parts in films like Night Shift and The Big Chill. However, it was his role in Silverado where things began to take off.
Costner’s self-funded project, Horizon: An American Saga, might have stumbled at the box office and with critics, but it fulfilled his decades-long commitment to the genre. Clint Eastwood and Kurt Russell are also legends of westerns, but Costner’s time working alongside the screen icons was anything but uneventful.The latter half of the ’80s saw Costner skyrocket to fame, and he starred in a string of hits that made him one of Hollywood’s brightest stars. From Costner’s baseball movies to his romantic dramas, the actor was everywhere in the early ’90s. However, it was westerns where he really found his true calling as a performer.Dances with Wolves earned him three Oscar nominations, and he took home the awards for Best Picture and Best Director. He would return to the genre shortly after with Wyatt Earp, and eventually appeared in TV projects like Hatfields & McCoys and Yellowstone, which further cemented him as a cowboy legend.
