‘Yellowstone’ Creator Admits He’s ‘Disappointed’ Over Kevin Costner Leaving The Show Amid Ongoing Drama

Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is preparing to accidental goodbye to his deed bid that stars Kevin Costner. In a caller interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, Taylor, 53, reacted to the determination by Kevin, 68, to permission the amusement aft season 5, which is expected to wrapper up aboriginal this year. “I’m disappointed,” Taylor said. “It truncates the closure of his character. It doesn’t change it, but it truncates it.”

Taylor continued, “My past speech with Kevin was that helium had this passionateness task helium wanted to direct. He and the web were arguing astir erstwhile helium could beryllium done with Yellowstone. I said, ‘We tin surely enactment a docket toward [his preferred exit date],’ which we did.’ ”

Kevin Costner successful ‘Yellowstone’ (Photo: ©Paramount Network/courtesy Everett Collection)

On May 5, Paramount Network confirmed that Yellowstone will end aft the 2nd fractional of play 5 airs. The announcement came aft the reports that claimed Kevin, who precocious divided from his woman Christine Baumgartner, was allegedly causing drama behind-the-scenes, and didn’t privation to proceed his relation arsenic John Dutton successful the series. But Taylor complimented the Oscar victor — who is moving connected from Yellowstone in favour of his Western epic movie Horizon — and told THR that his “opinion of Kevin arsenic an histrion hasn’t altered.”

“His instauration of John Dutton is symbolic and almighty … and I’ve ne'er had an contented with Kevin that helium and I couldn’t enactment retired connected the phone,” Taylor said. “But erstwhile lawyers get involved, past radical don’t get to speech to each different and commencement saying things that aren’t existent and effort to displacement blasted based connected however the property oregon nationalist look to beryllium reacting. He took a batch of this connected the chin and I don’t cognize that anyone deserves it. His movie seems to beryllium a large precedence to him and helium wants to displacement focus. I definite anticipation [the movie is] worthy it — and that it’s a bully one.”

Kevin Costner (Photo: Emerson Miller / ©Paramount Network / courtesy Everett Collection)

Taylor besides denied a study that claimed helium told Kevin to “stick to acting” erstwhile they were allegedly beefing connected set. “I ne'er had that speech with Kevin,” helium said. “There was a clip successful play 2 erstwhile helium was precise upset and said the quality wasn’t going successful the absorption helium wanted. I said, ‘Kevin, you bash retrieve that I told you this is fundamentally The Godfather on the largest ranch successful Montana? Are you that amazed that the Godfather is sidesplitting people?’ What he’s clung to is [Dutton’s] commitments to his household and mode of life. Dutton’s large failing is not evolving with the times — not uncovering antithetic gross streams [for the ranch]. Kevin felt play 2 was deviating from that, and I don’t cognize that helium was wrong. In play three, we steered backmost into it.” Taylor besides noted, “And I callback him [Kevin] winning a Golden Globe past twelvemonth for his performance, truthful I deliberation it’s working.”

There’s inactive nary premiere day yet for the remainder of Yellowstone season 5. Taylor confirmed to THR that he’s stopped penning connected the amusement amidst the ongoing writers strike. But helium did hint that determination whitethorn beryllium much last episodes coming than initially planned. “If I deliberation it takes 10 episodes to wrapper it up, they’ll springiness maine 10,” Taylor said. “It’ll beryllium arsenic agelong arsenic it needs to be.”

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