Kevin Costner Talks "Yellowstone" & More In-Studio with Rich Eisen | Full Interview | 6/13/18

the Academy award-winning actor and starring in Paramount Networks Yellowstone that premieres next Wednesday at 9:00 Eastern Time thrilled to have Kevin Costner back here on the show how are you sir I'm good really good and you know we were just watching you putt a little bit right there everybody was hoping that you'd get down like Roy McAvoy and putt like back in the day how how often do you get Roy McAvoy thrown your your way when you're out and about Kevin you mean you mean just somebody calling my name is people just when they bring up part of your filmography to you well I tell you what I can walk around sometimes and it's like it's like hey crash you know it's it's Roy it's like hey idiot and I'm still turning there somebody says hey I'll turn it Billy Chapel it feels like the baseball movies or the ones where the guys will call out to me is that right yeah yeah and I am a bit recently it's been happening guys who come up and they're just about to shake my hand they'll say you're the one that killed my friend you know an open range when I hit that guy right in the forehead sure to get it started I'm thinking I have to slow down with everybody you know I got to figure out who I am I have it from your filmography of people hit you yeah and I kind of happiest in a way about that you know because kind of a common question a lot of times is you know what favorite movie what's the favorite movie and yes and UK it's difficult to answer that but where I actually find myself is the reality that I'm happiest is that there's about 12 movies people will mention and I don't know what's gonna come out of their mouths and it could be water rolled and it could be the postman it's gonna be fill the dreams it's gonna be dances it's gonna be JFK it's gonna be those things but I don't know where it's gonna come from and at the end of the day I think you know that's good that it's not one movie that was made for different times that feels that feels good to me so which of the baseball movies do you hear about the most if you had to split it between Bull Durham and fielder Bob Bull Durham the always amazing the most I've used as a phrase already from Bull Durham just in the past two weeks because of the amount of strikeouts there have been in Major League Baseball this year April was the first month in the history of Major League Baseball where there are more strikeouts than hits and we're seeing too many guys striking out this year because everybody's swinging for the fences exit velocity and the line I keep using is about how strikeouts are not only fascist they're they're boring so I've used you I've used your line quite yeah yeah you know you know you do see trends you know and in baseball I don't know when that trend started maybe it was watching Justin Vijaya or somebody I'm not sure but I remember early baseball just meet the ball just meet the ball you know what I mean you don't just meet the ball and and you see the way guys swing now they just come out of their shoes I mean you look at Justin so you need to go right through the major league it's not just meet the ball it sounds like well it's a swing just as hard as you can that's what it looks like to me that's been like about a 20 year trend in my mind exit velocity all these terms that you hear that are being used I didn't yeah that is just that I keep thinking of like an old baseball men like Crash Davis what he would think about guys you just want to come up and they think they're gonna major the leagues because they've got a quick bat and the ball shoots off the bat yeah and I honestly maybe that's why people were talking to Ron about this guy that was a real good guy there's you know yeah Shelton and then it was a guy that he actually played with or somebody that knew about that like led the the miners and triple in and in the minor leagues and let him in the home runs RBIs a batting average and he it did it like five years of row in a row and he couldn't get into the big leagues but he was sitting behind Brooks on the Baltimore organization and you know that's a long time ago those guys just sat back they're like insurance and now players are just brought up brought up brought up and so many players you know didn't make it back in those 60s mhm yeah I mean and I think it was also as didn't we bring what something up to Brockman lately about there was a crash Davis type player who I think in in the NBA where he led the the d-league in three-pointers like he led they history of the minor leagues and three orders and got his shot with the Lakers at the very end of last season that we're all writing his name and roii MVP well Shelton had it so right with that thing it kind of the you know baseball you know you know you can't love baseball unless you're into the vulgarity and I you know and everything but there's that poetry too that always is something and Shelton found it the most when you read it and and and maybe most people that watch Bull Durham it's a it's a it's a thing that doesn't affect him the way it affected me when I knew when I when he was at the end of his career he decided to go hit that homerun in obscurity because it was a record he still wanted mm-hmm you know and I mean it's not one he could ever sit at the bar with guys who were in the big leagues he said well I hit the most summit he would never say it I'll I wasn't that kind of guy on the other end it was a record he knew was was average was whatever it was but there was something in him and his character that he was that close that he went and roomed with an eighteen year old so that he would hit that last one did it in obscurity and then went back to a knee and it was over for him and there was this weird kind of heroic dignity in that thing not what a record he would ever talk about but one he wanted at that point Kevin Costner here in the Rich Eisen show have you ever talked about finding out where Bull Durham is today where to find out where crash Davis is today no but I know Ronnie I know Ronnie is going on the thirty year anniversary to Bull Durham on the 15th and at the stadium and you know there's a real place for him and obviously I just from me but he's going back there and that movies really you know stood a test of time right and tin cup was also with you in Ranchi yeah I mean he's I mean he's the guy that understands that that it isn't always about the wind you know I mean he finds the heroism in in just being who you are the character I mean that's the greatest 12 in history that's the that's the honor I love it and I don't know if you're aware of this as well but the Cleveland Browns have had multiple first-round draft choices twice since trout had it figured out for them Adam going away I did and you know I mean think about that making a movie about the draft but I thought we did you damn straight you did I thought we did well you know I I have a small role in that film and one of my favorite stories of my entire career was shooting that the day after the first round of the draft and Radio City Music Hall and I would just I just come off of like a six hour mmm night the night before and I had another five hour one before and I just figured okay I know I have one page of dialogue I'll just get to it about a half hour before I have to yeah so this is my level of professionalism bringing to an all so Frank Langella who played the owner of the Cleveland Browns he shows up on set and says to me the first thing he says to me would you like to run through our lines I know I'm like oh no and I had to just tell him can you give me a minute rod wayafter started to shrink well looking and I did when I did perfect world they asked then to to narrate that you know my game my perfect game that's right and he came into the studio and the director is in him Vin Scully and he's on mister together and this is kind of our movie here and any any stand of them line and he goes in here's our some of our lines if he could say something you sly this is kinda thing cuz well could you just show me the film and he goes yeah well let me look at it he goes let me see the film I'm gonna be it so he kind of played like about six minutes of it and Scully washed it and he goes and then you can you do that he goes well why don't you just let me take a shot at this and so and so he he heard a few things that the guy said and then he started saying that stuff that's in the movie just although she said yeah he's just like it's like a songbird any and it got all the way to it and any any guy so it was like I I like that I was like the Aaron my arm is setting up and then the director said oh yeah and he goes well well you do you want to run it again and Vince as did we need to and do we know to and and he said well maybe maybe something well you know come of it and Vince said alright alright let's do that again it was it was his prerogative to do that sure and then who he is he just goes and Billy chow you know and it's like and he did something at to it and so we the director what turned out was right on this level but really what he what he did there you know and I have it forever right you do I have it forever and I got a chance actually to do a speech for him on his last day well you were kind enough to call into the show a couple of days after um seed or you were part in problem see I think out maybe I'll Michaels was but you spoke at his farewell yeah interesting yeah let's it was it was it was it was a big moment he I got the word he said look I'd like to have sandy Kirk and Kevin and I immediately started running for the Equis I thought there's got to be a hundred people who need to be on this field because no I want heavy and he call me Kathy and I was like you know I mean ballplayers always put a why on your name they're the one guys that can do it yeah and he just did that to me and he goes no I want he because there's something else about him and so it was just gonna be us three Kirk couldn't be there and eventually they evolved some politician spoke but when I got up I found what I wanted to say I don't know if you got to see it yeah I found what I wanted to say about him I kind of was thinking about everybody who felt something about him I felt like I was like talking for them when I was talking about him well you nailed it and I want to take a break come back in 60 seconds we'll talk about Yellowstone okay and and and so much more with Kevin Costner back in 60 seconds on the Rich Eisen show okay welcome back Kevin Costner's still hanging with us here Yellowstone premiering on paramount Network next Wednesday at 9:00 Eastern Time if I had two scripts on the desk okay and you are being pitched as I'm sure you always do for what your next project is I have two scripts on the desk you have no idea if the scripts are any good but I have two scripts one of the script as you throwing a ball or catching a ball or talking about a ball and the other one has you riding a horse which one do you pick up first well I'm gonna make one distinction sure if that baseball ones indoors I'm going outdoors if it's outdoors now I have a real tough pick okay so you're okay you're doing a okay so cuz draft day was indoors and I guess you know what I'm saying I'm saying I'm a recess guy I wasn't an academic I love recess I love when the bell went off because I wasn't ever make it letting my mind go but if I had to choose between a baseball movie and a Western I would do the Western why is that because I've got three baseball movies and I never gonna have enough westerns for me huh so when did when did you first fall in love with the Western which was the Western I think I was I was seven years old I was I was at the Cinerama Dome my feet were like right out here I went to a little boy's birthday party back in the 60s and it was how the west was won and I looked up and there was an overture playing it's a four-hour movie so you can see it marked me in a lot of ways all my movies are real long too and I sat through that movie all the kids were dinking around i sat through the intermission because I didn't want to miss a thing when the intermission was over it watched it all the first image was Jimmy Stewart and this canoe going across this lake that was like this it was like your table that wasn't a ripple and he was dressed in skins and he and as a camera moved and he saw where he was going there was these exotic people that he was going to talk to you on his Beach and they were dressed with the feathers and they were just it was and I thought I was marked at that moment that was what I wanted to do I wanted to know who those people were I want that kind of life for myself and I literally built three canoes in my life up until I was 18 I went down some of the rivers at Lewis and Clark you know you know when went down and that was for whatever reason that the idea of America how big it was what it was would literally the Garden of Eden to be honest before there was this giant movement across the continent and Yellowstone is a more modern day tell me Yellowstone is a different is a different look it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a like why didn't I think about it look of course that's what ranching is you know what I mean it's it's it's not an it it's not a modern look at ranching it's a look at modern ranching which is the trappings are when I think of for instance like Cirque du Soleil one of the things I think about is like you know they reinvented the circus you know I mean it and and because and they have the clowns the freaks the juggling their roots of what the circus are in Cirque de Soleil are are there and I think that's the beauty of Cirque du Soleil they never lost the roots of what the circus is about but they reinvented it and and ranching is still pretty much the same as it's ever been for the last 200 years here but the differences are what ATVs and some helicopters if you're have a giant spread condos golf courses well people that's that's that's the threat you mean we basically took it from indigenous people an interesting thing is the rich people that the people that held these big land tracts for the last hundred and fifty years they're losing their land now to just in their death tax inheritance these giant ranches are gonna that are beautiful that in a way keep the land you know in a way pristine not going to be filled with condos and stuff those are breaking up the children simply can't afford the taxes and so if you overlay that urbanization lawyers the environmental protection agencies are sure and dealing with indigenous people the Native American issues right now Yellowstone it rolls that all together it is quite good I saw it last night it's really good and it's next Wednesday is when it debuts at 9:00 Eastern Time on paramount Network you play the role of John Dutton who is the patriarch of the powerful family and who's controlling that largest continuous ranch in the u.s. that is all these modern infringement upon it yeah you know I've got the dysfunctional family to go with it you know you don't you're not gonna have any drama without it but you know it's it's a it works and it's in it in a way that you know and in its listen there's a it's a it's a I like it you know I have I set my trailer up my little stream there's a base camp where most of all the other trailers are on the food and I said just put my trailer over here by this stream I come to work I just start a fire I wait I go to work I come back and it's at night if we're working and pretty soon there's six seven people just around the fire talking it's it's a pretty good life well and and I look forward to seeing Yellowstone here at 9:00 Eastern Time it's funny Kevin when we had our first segment you were talking about all the movies that you get maybe thrown at you one one film you did not mention the untouchables which is another film for me that is a remote drop where I see it on TV I just have to drop the remote no matter where I am in the film do you have a Sean Connery story you can share I remember one time you know I was with Sean it was in Chicago and and as I was kind of talking to him there there's this really this girl was really trying to get my attention she was cute and I didn't I didn't want to rush over there because Sean told me a story one time of a girl sitting next to him that kept tapping him tapping him and he knew she was there he was he knew his going to get to her but he kept up his conversation kept it up finally tap and finally when this dumb conversation was over and he really wanted to see what the bird was all about he looked over there and her cigarette was just now hanging out of her mouth he was she was trying to give him what he thought was a note and it was a lighter and so she looked pretty pathetic so I had that story on my mind when I was with him and some girl was trying to get my attention like looking over looking over and finally I'm kind of done with him and I think well stroll over and see what she really wants like I did I walked as she was behind the ribbon I got really close to her I said yeah and she goes could you get me Shawn's like I said yeah biggest are the biggest oh yeah and and the real deal and you know you know really honest I mean he well he was upset on Untouchables he was set because he thought somebody had treated him wrong in production was gonna cost him money and money was important to him how it worked and that kind of thing and he it was really it was really angry was in a bar and he called me only goes mr. Nash he'd called meanness mr. Nash yeah and I go yeah and and I go what he goes gonna sit out here with me and I would and I sat down and he had this piece of paper at like a yellow pad just like what you have yeah any and he said you remember this do you remember that and it was like stuff that was right and stuff that was wrong and and I mean I said I remember that I remember that and yeah I remember that and he got thank you and he went and tore this guy's head off he just needed to be sure he needed to be sure that that he wasn't going to be wrong all facts confirmed McKenna it didn't want to kind of you know put boy then it was you know then then it was lit then it was on Lookout yeah and I admired him for that and you know Burt Lancaster is well I mean yeah Field of Dreams yeah and you know Burt Burt when when he was doing that scene that it was so beautiful behind the desk you wrap your arms around second they should look up at that sky he was a lot with his hands he was a lot with his hands and you know and a and and you know and he told me all the studios were scared of me they're scared of me and I think of me and Douglas there's scared of me hurt Chuck yeah and I asked him this I asked him the scene about the Kentucky and you know where he runs across the water if you ever saw that and you saw that yeah because you saw I said yeah because you know how did said no I guess I'll tell you what I did he said I started when I had to end and I ran back as quick as I could and he said and I wanted to see and I said when I start running back load the gun I need to know how long it's gonna take you and so he said I did and that was a mark and that's where I hadn't put the camera so now then they call action I'm running this way and just about the time he got the gun loaded I jumped and I had him down it was perfect and and I just I just listened to him and they just looked at me goes they were scared of me they were all fantastic it was it was a he was a good thing anyway he was also generous to people you know like I said them you know and and I said you know that that fight you had with Matthau and he goes you saw that and I go yeah that's a really good thing and you know we think of Matthau is that great comic that kind of hound dog you know download newspapers that's bad he was a badass in in Kentucky and and I he says I talked to him about how the whip went out and it was the way he was losing the fight and the girl rolls like wagon over the wheel and he he's just he's been beaten lancaster up beaten him up and now he throws his whip and it's a kind of a coup to grow on the girl who's like lancaster is on a wagon she sees it she plucks a horse and it moves over the thing and Matthau for the circus and then the music starts in lancaster gets to win the fight and that's kind of why I like the movies you saw that I'm like well I mean you've directed the film as well yeah this has been always great chatting with you my last one for you is what is your remote drop movie I don't know how much TV i watch your remote drop movie where you're watching TV if you do have the time and you pass a movie what is Kevin Costner's you know I watch Cool Hand Luke that's it no matter where you picked i watch it yeah yeah i'll watch it it was it's what what about Cool Hand Luke makes that your remote drop movie I don't know it was a perfect movie for him there was perfect movie for anybody watch and I you know I you know the the crash Davis doesn't always win either just in Cup and either did Cool Hand Luke and you somehow in your heart even though you want good endings people want happy endings sometimes what we realize if we can't get the happy ending the ending we have to get is the one that we have to understand why it ended the way it did and when we really understand something the way it's supposed to be we have a easier way of accepting it and go that's the way it had to be the and the and and and that's the poetry and those that are always trying to make we like a good ending I like it just as much as anybody else but sometimes when I feel the power of a movie and it doesn't end the way I want if if the level of understanding has been built into it I accept it in it and it becomes something I loved check out paramount networks Yellowstone starring you Kevin Costner Wednesday June 20th for those without the calendar at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time you are welcome here anytime you thanks thanks for having appreciate thanks for coming here that's Kevin Costner here on the Rich Eisen show the Rich Eisen show weekdays at noon eastern on audience

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