Kevin Costner Addresses ‘Yellowstone’ Exit At Divorce Hearing, Says He Will “Probably Go To Court” Over It
deadline.comKevin Costner’s shocking exit from the biggest show on linear television, Paramount Network’s Yellowstone, became a focal point in the Oscar winner’s testimony at a Santa Barbara court hearing in his divorce case Friday morning.
In Costner’s first public remarks about his abrupt departure and the series coming to an end with Season 5, the actor indicated on the stand today that he will likely sue over the way things went down.
During his testimony today, Costner openly said he will “probably go to court” over his Yellowstone exit, according to multiple reports and sources.
If Costner was to engage in a suit. over his Yellowstone departure it is likely the defendants would producers 101 Studios and Paramount Network parent company Paramount Global Responding to a further question by his estrange wife Christine Baumgartner’s attorney John Rydell whether he was offered to do Season 6, Costner also said it was “complicated,” according a Fox News report on the hearing, with the actor’s comments corroborated to Deadline by sources close to the matter. “We did negotiate,” Costner said noting that he was offered $24 million to do Season 5, 6 and 7. “There were issues about creative,” Coster went on to say about talks with franchise creator Taylor Sheridan and producers “I tried to break the log jam.
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