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Well Kevin Costnerfc 12Jh.Indd PROFILE Oscar winner, sex symbol, eco-warrior, father of seven. So A Man of His Wordthere is a clear message in this story who is the real Kevin Costner? “I take my promises very seriously.” that I think people can take away.” As Kim Izzo discovers, all of It’s the sort of line spoken by the lead- and her father, Spencer’s son, is bat- Articulate and passionate about the above – and then some ing man, the classically handsome, tling drug addiction and has been ab- his work and the world around him, tall and laconic type who shows up sent from the girl’s entire life up until as Costner speaks he brings to mind when the chips are down and with now. The plot, as Costner suggests, is certain actors of another generation. eyes that never waver and a voice that intricate and deftly explores racial Often compared to screen legend resonates, who saves the day. You can and class barriers as well as the deli- Gary Cooper, a lanky and laconic easily imagine the likes of mega mov- cate nature of family ties. “I was star- leading man if there ever was one, ie star Kevin Costner speaking such a tled by how much I was a ected by Costner strikes me more like another line and you wouldn’t be wrong. Only [the script]. Every time I thought the Hollywood icon, James Stewart, a Costner wasn’t reading from a script movie was going one way it went an- man who played characters known when he said them. Instead, he was other, and I thought that’s really what for eloquent speeches in lms such explaining to me how he came to in- a movie is supposed to be,” Costner as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. vest $9 million of his own money in explains. “And I just found the char- Like Stewart, who in real life was one of his latest lms, Black or White. acters and what they were saying real- reputed to be one of the good guys, “I thought it was powerful and that it ly authentic and as a storyteller that’s Costner appears to be how you’d im- had the ability to be commercial even what you always want. When you’re agine him to be. Onscreen he embod- though it wasn’t a terribly expensive dealing with where the country is at ies strength of character, con dence movie. It was our money, my partner this point when it comes to race it just and above all human decency, com- and I,” he explains on the phone from seemed even more poignant.” modities that are increasingly tough New York. “What had happened was The performances are stellar, and to nd in our day-to-day lives and in I had made a promise to the director the lm both tugs at the heartstrings an ever increasingly violent, danger- [Mike Binder who directed Costner in – after all, at its core, it’s about the ous and uncertain world. And o - The Upside of Anger] that we were go- welfare of a little girl – and also pro- screen too he seems to walk the walk ing to make it, and so I took it around vokes dialogue about race. Released of the all-American good guy. to all the usual suspects in town, and Jan. 30, the movie hits the mark, “The movies taught me how to be it was not going to get made, but I had coinciding with recent events in heroic. I saw my dad behave that way. promised him and when I looked in Ferguson, Mo., and New York. The But in the movies, I want to be those the mirror, the only person who was timing is accidental, but it should guys. I want to be those women. When going to make this was me.” call attention to the lm as it has you sit in the dark you go, ‘I hope I’m The film, which bowed at the with Selma, also released in January, them.’ And the only way you’re ever Toronto International Film Festival and perhaps provoke conversations going to know is if you get yourself last September, is about a white about race and how di cult it is to into a tough spot because it’s easy to grandfather (Costner) and a black talk about, even among friends. “I act that way when things are going grandmother (Octavia Spencer) bat- make all kinds of movies – roman- well,” he says. “But when you have to tling over the custody of their bi- tic comedies, Westerns, love stories, plug the boat, when you have to bail racial seven-year-old granddaughter political thrillers. I mean that’s the it, when you have to make sure that who has been raised her whole life thing I’ve actually enjoyed about be- everyone is paid before you’re paid or by Costner and his wife, who has just ing able to have my career. I haven’t you’re running for cover or declaring died. The child’s mother, Costner’s pigeoned myself,” he says. “So I didn’t bankruptcy, and that’s not a foul be- PHOTOGRAPHY, AMANDA FRIEDMAN/TRUNK ARCHIVE FRIEDMAN/TRUNK AMANDA PHOTOGRAPHY, daughter, died in childbirth at 17, make this to be a message movie, but cause some people get themselves 59 into a tough spot, but you have to say, and nd something that they can do ‘Who are you?’ And we’re not perfect and they can be great at, and so great but the idea that you tried more often that it translates into these results to do the right thing. And doing the that are there for everyone to see.” right thing when it’s the hardest is The lm’s director, Niki Caro, said the closest measure to who you are.” that when it came to casting the lead it Despite an inauspicious start as an was an easy decision. “Kevin was both actor, where he was famously left on mine and the studio’s clear choice for the cutting room £oor of The Big Chill, Jim White. He has a peerless track re- Costner has built his 30-plus-year cord in sports dramas and audiences career playing the archetypical love him in this kind of role,” she ex- American hero in classic cine - plains. “What is so satisfying for me matic genres such as Westerns, in- about his performance in this movie cluding Silverado and Hatfields is that we see not only Kevin Costner & McCoys; sports films Field the great actor, but Kevin Costner as of Dreams and Draft Day; roman- a great man. In this movie we see his tic leads in the likes of Message in a humanity and his humility.” Bottle and The Bodyguard; and pol- Working with a cast of young boys, itical thrillers such as No Way Out many of whom had never acted be- and 3 Days to Kill. There are more fore may have been a challenge, but blockbuster hits on his resume, per- according to director Caro, Costner haps most notably The Untouchables rose to the occasion. “Kevin was ex- and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, tremely generous with the boys in the and of course the lm he starred, movie. The rst time he met them at directed and produced to great ac- the read-through he told them that claim, Dances With Wolves, which what they were about to experience netted Oscars for Best Picture and would be something that they would Directing. Indeed, at one time, there remember for the rest of their lives. were few stars bigger than Costner. He said to them ‘When you’re my age, Fast forward to 2015 in an era where you’re going to look back on this, your heroism is reserved for comic book rst movie. You’ll never forget it. It’s superheroes, the idea of a middle- a very special time,’” she says. “I was aged white guy in California’s Central very moved by his care and attention Valley inspiring a group of Hispanic to those kids throughout the shoot- kids, the sons of migrant workers, to ing process. The bond between them run competitive cross-country and on screen is completely authentic.” eventually win nine state champion- ships may seem a tad quaint even if it OSTNER TURNED is true. But that is the premise behind on Jan. 18, and on Jan. McFarland, released February 20th. 15, he was presented Set in the 1980s, I ask Costner why with the Critics’ Choice he chose to portray coach Jim White. Lifetime Achievement “That it was true. You wouldn’t want C Award. He gave an emotional accept- to make that sort of story up. It seems ance speech, thanking everyone from “I didn’t buy into just unbelievable,” he says. “I just thought the writers to craft service people, that it was remarkable that a man proving once more his genuine de- could go in there, not know the lan- cency. And on Feb. 2, he was pre- the dream. I bought guage and not know his own place in sented with the Movies for Grownups the world really – and these young Career Achievement Award given by into it’s going to kids and the prospects for them aren’t AARP at its 14th Annual Movies for nearly as glowing as for other people. Grownups Awards. Two Lifetime take work” And they somehow come together Achievement awards in a row is TK CREDIT PHOTO 60 61 “Doing the right thing when a big deal, so ask him how he feels do Bodyguard 3 or 4,’ but that’s busi- ‘When is she going to start dancing?’ about being a man of a certain age.
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