Kevin Costner Found Out John Dutton’s Fate After ‘Yellowstone’ Episode Aired: ‘That Doesn’t Make Me Want to Rush to Go See It’

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Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 5 Episode 9, which aired on Paramount Network on Nov.

10. “Yellowstone” killed off John Dutton on Sunday night’s premiere of Season 5 Part 2, but Kevin Costner hasn’t yet seen the episode. “I’m going to be perfectly honest.

I didn’t know it was actually airing last night,” Costner said in an interview with SiriusXM’s “The Michael Smerconish Program” on Monday morning. “That’s a swear to God moment.

I swear to God. I mean, I’ve been seeing ads with my face all over the place and I’m thinking, ‘Gee, I’m not in that one.’ I’m not in this season.” Costner, who departed from Taylor Sheridan’s Western drama after Season 5 Part 1, which premiered in November 2022, said he found out about how his character was sent off the morning after the episode aired. “I didn’t see it.