Kevin Costner breaks his silence on Yellowstone finale and Luke Grimes ‘feud’ in shock video

Kevin Costner has spoken out following the shock ending of “Yellowstone” and the alleged feud with former co-star Luke Grimes.

The iconic actor, 69, who exited the acclaimed series amid a rift with showrunner Taylor Sheridan, stepped out in Aspen just days after the finale aired, and weeks after his character John Dutton was killed off in a faked suicide.

I don’t really care to think about [the Yellowstone finale] I don’t think I’ve really thought about it, we’ll just move on.

He also shut down a question about his alleged feud with onscreen son and Kayce Dutton actor Grimes, and revealed he hadn’t been in contact with him since the finale aired.

[O]n the series, John, Kevin Costner’s character, was a victim of a premeditated murder-for-hire in the premiere of Yellowstone’s season five, part 2.

He was eliminated within the first few minutes of seeing broadcast, and the series wasted no time in making them know by firsthand that he had committed suicide by firearm – 1 day after Kevin walked out of the programme because of scheduling problems regarding his franchise, Horizon, Western produced film series.

Now since the show ended Grimes has sung the praises of all the ways that Costner’s exit altered the filmmaking operation.

Last week, Luke revealed that filming without the two-time Oscar winner made things much smoother for him and the rest of the cast.

Hopefully ” everybody can agree that it ” ” was the moment “, Luke explained to Kevin “exiting ” the neo-Western drama series. ‘On a really personal level, there was a side of Kevin being okay with it that made some of the conflict okay, too.

He continued: ‘Obviously, it didn’t make it super fun to be around. Not pointing any fingers, but it was actually the easiest season we’ve filmed.’

‘No, I haven’t talked to him since. It’s not a case of any hard feelings or anything; its just, he’s Kevin Costner,’ he said with a laugh.

‘He’s a big deal. I have his phone number-I just don’t feel that it is my prerogative to contact him. He’s free to come to me if he would like, Luke said.

Luke added to Men’s Health that ‘none of us saw it coming the way it did, and obviously there was news about possible blowups behind the scenes or whatever. However, as in life, these things do occur, they do occur quickly, and they are unpredictable.

Adding: ‘I lost my father a few years ago. It happened quickly, and not the scenario that you would expect that to occur. In life, these things occur, and then decisions have to be made.

Luke noted: And in our tiny Yellowstone corner of the world, that jumpstarted it to a big boil.

Previously, Luke also prompted viewers that it was “always on the card” that John would die.

‘It was always the plan for him to have to go away for the story to really ramp up, and that was the story. You lose a patriarch of the family. Can the kids do it on their own?’ he told People.

He admitted, ‘there’s been some negative reactions’ to Dutton’s death, which was first revealed as a suicide – which most fans didn’t agree with – and later revealed as a hit performed by a company specializing in making homicides look like deaths by other means, namely accidents or suicides.

‘I think they feel sort of cheated. And what I would say to that is, I think we were all lucky to have Kevin on the show as long as we did,’ Luke said.

He also added that the original plan was to kill off John Dutton much earlier in the story.

‘I think originally he was supposed to die much earlier. So, in a way, they got way more of John Dutton than they were going to originally get. I would keep that in mind,’ Luke added.

But if it happened like that, dramatically and rapidly, that’s the way life works, isn’t it? I mean, when you lose people, it’s sometimes not how you planned and not when you think it’s going to be,’ he continued.

Kevin also disclosed in June, at the time of hisshow involvementa talk with Sheridan, that when he was pitched the television program, only the next season will have his character.

‘When it was first pitched to me by Taylor [Sheridan] it was one season and [like] a long movie, which [is] speaking my language… but ultimately, I think what happened was the studio didn’t want that,’ Costner said.

‘And because he’s such a prolific writer, he said, “I can do that. I can make a series that keeps going,” Kevin suggested.

He finally “shook up” and pitched in, “doing it for three years, and I ended up doing it for five.

He also went on to praise Sheridan, stating, ‘I liked the writing and really, really liked what Taylor was doing.’.

‘He understood the world of modern-day ranching and was able to create all this other type of drama inside it, but in an effective way,’ Costner added.