“I’m in a really good category, if you will. “I’m a six-foot white guy who fucking makes cowboy movies and baseball movies and gets to play the hero, and no one mistakes me for anything but America,” he’s saying now. It makes him fun to hang around, to sit back and listen to. It’s all pretty interesting, not just this kind of mulish insistence on being himself, no matter what, which is how lots of people operate, for better or worse, but also the way he talks about it, openly, laughing and snorting as he goes, which takes the edge off what could almost be considered sharp-angled arrogance. But then, ‘You fucking order the wine, I don’t care.’” I’ll do the little dance just so that nobody else is embarrassed.
That was part of the pact I made with myself, no more playing. When I look at the wine list, I do a couple of chin boogies and then pass it over to somebody else.” He chuckles and says, “Listen. So when everybody’s ordering wine, I’m going, ‘Oh, fuck.’ But I’ve come up with a really good posture. I know that’s really unfashionable, but if I’m going to have a drink, it’s just going to be by itself. “I don’t drink alcohol with food,” he says at one point. It’s just one more example of him doing what he wants. He’s perfectly happy using a phrase like “if you will” more than any other human being might find seemly.
PICTURES OF WATERWORLD MOVIE SMOKERS HOW TO
I’m thinking, ‘When I wear them in the show, they feel pretty good, and I normally wear boots, so, well, I’ll just continue to wear these.’ There’s certain things that I don’t think too much about - when it comes to clothes, I don’t even know what to do except how to wear them - and there’s other things that I can’t stop thinking about, because I don’t like to go through life unthinking, if you will.”Īnd that’s another thing about Costner.
“And the boots, they’re from Yellowstone. “They’re kind of my own uniform, if you will,” he says. One variant has to do with why he wears what he’s got on today, nothing fancy: a sweater, Levi’s and cowboy boots.
PICTURES OF WATERWORLD MOVIE SMOKERS TV
Unbeknownst to just about everybody, Kevin Costner could not have become Kevin Costner - that is to say, the biggest movie star around for a 10-year run starting in the late 1980s, with him swinging bats at balls in Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989), flashing badges at bad guys in The Untouchables (1987), and fast-racking the lever on his polished brass-frame Henry 1860 rifle in Dances With Wolves (1990) in the process becoming dominantly noted for his “tall, rangy good looks” and what Hollywood types like to call “flesh impact ” usually choosing to play characters who are self-sworn to operate on the upstanding, outstanding right side of any given moral equation, hence all the early comparisons to Gregory Peck and Jimmy Stewart surviving outsized movie-making disasters like Waterworld (1995) that inevitably turned into cult favorites (rightfully so) and, at the age of 64, arriving most recently in long-form TV shows like The Highwaymen, costarring Woody Harrelson, about the two lawmen responsible for bringing down Depression-era bank-robber/killers Bonnie and Clyde, on Netflix, and Yellowstone, playing a hard-bitten patriarch and rancher beset on all sides by modern times and ancient grievances, on the Paramount Network, now entering its second season - without smoking a bunch of dope along the way, 40 years of it, before stopping a few years back, for the most part (see: Woody Harrelson), without anyone ever taking much notice of it.Īctually, he’s like that in many different ways.