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Kevin Costner is shining a light-weight on his exit from the strike collection Yellowstone. Right soon after playing patriarch John Dutton III for 5 seasons, the actor reported he even now has fond recollections of functioning on the Paramount Community sequence.

“I cherished the show,” Kevin, 69, advised Folks in an job interview released Wednesday, June 19. “I liked the men and women on the clearly show. I favored what it was about. I appreciate that globe.”

That is not to say it was totally excellent. When Kevin declared he was leaving the present in 2022, rumors swirled about the severe explanation behind his exit.

“I read through all the tales,” the actor admitted. “I was let down that nobody on their aspect … ever stepped up to defend what it was I really did for them. There arrived a instant in which I imagined, ‘Wow, when is somebody heading to say some thing about what I have accomplished vs . what I haven’t completed?’”

In February, Kevin’s lawyer, Marty Singer, also responded to on the internet rumors, stating: “As every person who is aware of nearly anything about Kevin is effectively aware, he is exceptionally passionate about the present and has usually gone way higher than and further than to assure its achievements.”

In accordance to Kevin, he initially agreed to take component in creator Taylor Sheridan’s show for one particular distinct year as it was pitched to him like a extended motion image. In the finish, the Oscar winner thinks the studio essential a show that could span quite a few seasons.

“Because he’s these types of a prolific author, [Taylor] mentioned, ‘I can do that. I can make a sequence that goes on,’” Kevin believed. “I mentioned, ‘I’ll do it for 3 seasons’ and I finished up doing it for 5.”

He added that he was open up to continuing, but no a particular person could provide a timeline for the output. Fourteen months went by specifically exactly where the show skilled stopped. As a finish outcome, Kevin preferred to go soon after other jobs.

Even with the earlier, Kevin stated he would be open to returning to Yellowstone if the script and state of affairs had been appropriate. “It may be an intriguing second to arrive back again and complete the mythology of this modern day-working day family members and if that transpires, I would stage into it if I agreed with how it was remaining performed,” he explained. “In the extremely stop, I could not do any far more for it than I experienced currently completed.”

Kevin’s most up-to-date film, Horizon: An American Saga, hits theaters everywhere on Friday, June 28.