The Oscar-winning actor, 69, recently acknowledged that he’s aware his movies tend to appeal more to men while he promoted his new film, “Horizon: An American Saga.”
Kevin Costner knows his audience.
The Oscar-winning actor, 69, recently acknowledged that he’s aware his movies tend to appeal more to men, but he emphasizes the necessity of “strong women,” alongside the cast of his new film, “Horizon: An American Saga.”
“I make movies for men. That’s what I do,” Costner remarked on the June 27 episode of “Happy Sad Confused.”
“But I won’t make a movie unless I have strong women characters, and that’s how I’ve conducted my career. I think that’s why I have a good following,” he added. “I thank you women for dragging your men here — it was a Western after all. I just can’t conceive of a movie without having [strong women].”
Costner’s latest project features a robust female cast, including Sienna Miller, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee and more.
Costner, who serves as the writer, director, producer and star of the film, said he “couldn’t conceive of a scene that didn’t involve a woman” when he was writing the film’s script alongside John Baird.
He went on to emphasize why women are so important to the story of “Horizon” on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on June 24.
“This has a tremendous amount of women in it,” Costner said at the time. “They play such a big part of the West and what happened. They were often taken out there against their will and with their children on the idea that there was something great out there. There was nothing out there except a group of people who lived there for thousands of years.”
He continued: “Women were drug into the most terrible of circumstances and made it work. And somehow they don’t find themselves in Westerns and in ‘Horizon’ they dominate.”
Costner has a history of collaborating with strong female leads, notably working with Whitney Houston in 1992’s “The Bodyguard.” Even 30 years later, Costner speaks highly of the late musician after working with her.
“She’s really smart.
