Kevin Costner Made An Emotional C-onfession About Princess Diana’s Dea-th

[Music] kevin costner made an emotional confession about Princess Diana's death the late Princess Diana was beloved by many and one admirer just so happened to be Kevin Costner in fact not only were the pair of friends but the actor was also planning on working with the Royal and over the years Costner has let slip some details about his relationship with the princess including a stunning admission about her as most know Diana passed away in 1997 in an accident that shocked practically the whole world the princess who had by then divorced Prince Charles succumbed to injuries sustained in a car crash in Paris on August 31st of that year her driver was later discovered to have been under the influence of prescription drugs at the time while Diana herself hadn't been using a seatbelt and following Diana's death there was a mass outpouring of public grief not just in Britain but also internationally meanwhile over the years even though Diana's divorce meant she wasn't technically a member of the royal family when she died she was still considered by some to be the face of her liberal more down-to-earth future for the beloved institution and on the 10-year anniversary of Diana's death academic Debra Lynn Steinberg spoke to CTV dot CA about why her passing had such an impact Steinberg who had co-edited the book mourning Diana nation culture and the performance of grief explained that the princess herself had been a renegade figure who represented the possibility of multicultural cosmopolitan Britain when it came to raising her children for example she took on several duties herself doing the school run for example rather than leaving them in the hands of not only that but Diana also campaigned for hiv/aids victims at a time when there was still a massive stigma against the disease and in keeping with a princess who wanted to be part of a modern world Diana also had many celebrity friends yes Elton John Liza Minnelli Freddie Mercury Gianni Versace and George Michael among others were all able to boast that they knew the popular royal interestingly though before Diana's tragic death she was reportedly thinking of becoming an actress this was long before suit star Megan marquel joined the royal family through her marriage to Harry of course and as many of us know Diana certainly always had the power to captivate an audience Diana was a talented dancer for a start and in a 2017 interview with The Guardian her teacher Wayne sleep recalled a performance that he had done with her back then the princess had danced for her then husband Charles during a show at the Royal Opera House with sleep remembering of that time the audience gasped when Diana appeared as if they'd all taken one huge breath and Diana had actually dreamed of being a ballerina when she was younger yet unfortunately as an adult she grew past the approved height for a professional ballerina then there's a legend that suggests Diana even felt up to the challenge of drag according to a popular lore she Freddie Mercury and British comedian Kenny effort all went out partying together in the 1980s in particular the two men decided to dress Diana up as a man and take her to a famous London gay club the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and comedian Cleo Rocco's a frequent co-star of efforts claims to have witnessed that event in her 2013 book the power of positive drinking she wrote Diana and Freddie were giggling but she did order a white wine and a beer once the transaction was completed we looked at one another United in our triumphant quest we did it what's more Roco said Diana's performance was so effective that no one actually recognized her she added when we walked in we felt she was obviously Princess Diana and would be discovered at any moment but people just seemed to blank her she sort of disappeared but she loved it so could Diana have taken her performing skills all the way to Hollywood once she was no longer required to carry out her royal duties while according to one star she could well have done just that you see Kevin Costner has claimed that Diana was once in talks to do a sequel to The Bodyguard with him the original bodyguard starred Costner as a Secret Service agent Frank farmer perhaps surprisingly though the bodyguard was a critical disaster upon its release in fact movie reviewers slammed the whole project especially the acting performances of Houston and Costner and ultimately the film was nominated for seven Golden Raspberry Awards including those for worst picture worst actress and worst actor but regardless of the negative press The Bodyguard did incredibly well at the box office the drama was the second highest earner internationally of 1992 for one while its soundtrack had also since shifted in excess of 45 million copies there's little doubt then that a sequel to the movie would have been a shrewd business move and it was 2001 four years after Diana died that Costner first mentioned how the princess might well have starred in a bodyguard sequel the start old British talk-show host Michael Parkinson that he had chatted with Diana a couple of times and explained to her that he was going to try to make this movie for her in addition Costner said Diana was genuinely interested in the project the actor added moreover that while Diana had never committed to saying that she would do the film he nevertheless promised to send the script to her when it was finished the princess was Costner claimed genuinely excited to see the screenplay but a horrible twist was on the way on the very same day that the final script was delivered to Costner Diana died the next time Costner spoke about the aborted project it was to Anderson Cooper in 2012 and tragically his former co-star Houston had also sadly passed away at that point two months before the star had given the interview the singer had died in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on the TV show Anderson Costner explained Diana and I had been talking about doing bodyguard 2 I told her I would take care of her just the same way I had taken care of Whitney she wanted me to write it for her I said I'll tailor it for you if you're interested she goes I am interested and Costner went on Diana let me know that her life might be changing at some point so she was having her own internal struggles diana was indeed having difficulties throughout the 1990s her issues with her marriage and with her own mental illnesses were well documented the plot of the proposed bodyguard to would have seen Costner return his farmer and in the role he'd protect a new person probably a princess the part that Diana was in talks to play in a desperately ironic twist though the script involved Costner protecting his ward from the paparazzi who in real life are still believed to have played a role in Diana's crash in April 2008 you see after the inquest into Diana's death had come to an end the jury concluded that the paparazzi who had been following the princess's car that night were to blame for her accident along with her driver Henry Paul apparently photographers had not only been following Diana's car but they had also taken pictures of the vehicle after the smash and Prince Harry has long harbored an understandable anger at the snappers who witnessed the incident in the 2017 BBC documentary Diana 7 days he stated one of the hardest things to come to terms with is that the people who chased her into the tunnel were the same people who were taking photographs of her while she was dying on the back seat of the car Harry went on and William and I know that we've been told that numerous times by people know that was the case Diana had quite a severe head injury but she was very much alive on the back seat and those people that caused the accident instead of helping were taking photographs of her dying on the back seat yet while Diana's death naturally still provokes a lot of emotion from her children those who knew her as a friend are also still affected for example Costner claimed that despite all her enthusiasm diana was worried about one thing when it came to the movie he said I just remember her being incredibly sweet on the phone and she asked the question are we going to have like kissing scene according to Costner although Diana made the query in a very respectful way the concern was still there the actor explained she was nervous because her life was very governed and I said yeah there's gonna be a little bit of that but we can make that okay to at the same interview Costner dropped a bombshell about another royal specifically he alleged that had been Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York who had engineered the first meeting between him and Dianna Costner went on Sarah was really important she was the one that set it up and she never said well what about me I'm a princess too she was just so supportive of the idea Diana and Sarah Ferguson who is popularly nicknamed Fergie were closed in the 1990s indeed in her 1996 autobiography my story the Duchess said of Diana she was two years younger than I and I strove to support protect her as I would a younger sister as I still do today as a best friend so it's perfectly possible that she would have gone along with any acting aspirations Diana may have had and Costner mentioned Fergie's involvement with the project again during a second 2019 interview this time with Ross King on the British morning show Lorraine fair he said something I always admired about Sarah was how open she was to that idea and how supportive of that idea and clearly how much she liked Diana but Costner had liked Diana - and that seemingly thought of her as more than just a potential co-star in the Lorraine interview he sadly said of the late princess when we lost her that was tragic for a long time the actor added he hadn't talked about Diana's passing in fact Costner's words about Diana go to show how much she is still missed even today and over two decades since her death people still come out to pay tribute elsewhere others paid tribute on social media to mark the anniversary but what might have happened if Princess Diana really had taken a role in Bodyguard - well for one she could potentially have found common ground with Megan the daughter-in-law she never met royal fans have noticed after all that the two women appeared to have a number of similarities impeccable fashion sense willingness to defy the rules and it seems achiness for acting Herry beliefs of the two women would have been close to when he and Megan gave their post engagement interview in 2017 for instance people reported him as saying of his fiancee and his mother they'd be thick as thieves without question I think Diana would be over the moon jumping up and down and so excited for me but I think she would have been best friends with Megan so The Bodyguard - with Diana as a star remains a fascinating what might have been and it's worth noting that the franchise didn't end with Diana's death either as the story of the original movie was ultimately adapted into a stage musical that opened in London's West End in 2012 still as yet no official big-screen sequel has been given the green light

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Published: Mon Oct 14 2019