>> hard past hard pass that was like dominoes right there. >> we are trained professionals over here i do think honestly part of his talk about aliens, i actually think they're showing up this year. >> of already showed up progressive lord and spent five minutes on twitter and leave. [laughter] took one look around and say no, this is no then they're going to go to instagram and say they're all photographing the dinner what's happened this is weird it's a proof of buddha video him scared of this planet for. >> no sign of higher life you're out of your progress is a smart thing to be up talk t doctor nie safar, j joey jones, thank you all. >> that does it for us. we'll see it next weekend of course. coming up, who is kevin costner that's about to get underway. it starts right now. happy new year. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i think every picture has its own length in it, has its own timing, has its own set the

rhythm. we inherently feel that when we watch it. >> it kevin really slogged his way to the top of the american dream. >> 's got the classic good looks at. he's got t that laid it back off schuck. >> kevin is one of those iconic american actors. >> kevin had a crazy dream of becoming an actor, becoming a filmmaker break which is winning oscars, the stretch of his career that could be called the epic stretch. >> there is something magical about charisma. there is something mysterious that kevin has been. >> he feels like the all american actor. >> it's part of who we are. we are a funny breed of animal picnics he has no connections to hollywood and he did it on his own. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ kevin costner is a very important name in hollywood. who became a huge star but never cared about being a star. he never wanted to be a star. he always wanted to be a great movie maker. >> the first scene in the 1980s making great baseball movies. some great westerns, movies like boulder and silverado. and then has kind of matured into it i like to think of as america's dad regrets it took a lot of hard work and determination for kevin costner to garner the title of america's dad. become overall a legendary actor and filmmaker. >> want to talk about ending up in this particular place, i just keep harkening back to early in your career. i don't know if that's why i am a romantic about the movies and what i do.

lexi started with humble beginnings in the suburbs of california. before the idea of acting even crossed his mind. >> kevin was born in lynnwood. he grew up in compton, california which is just outside of los angeles. >> he did not love school and he moved a lot that made him feel like a bit of an outsider. >> he hasn't said it was a tough life having to move around so many times. especially during the school years. >> at an early age his parents really instilled in him the idea of responsibility, what a man does. a man works. a man that does the right thing. the way they can to put it to him is kevin you can do something you will be proud of it. >> kevin surrounded himself with hobbies and activities. many of them and the creative realm it. >> he is very involved in his community church he was raised baptist. he loved playing sports.

he loved writing poetry. he loved it music. he never thought about being an actor. and in the beginning that isn't what he decided to do pretty went to college and studied business progress after he graduated got a job in marketing and that's what he thought he was going to be doom for the rest of his life. he realized that was not feeding his heart she sat down and had deep discussions with himself and he came up with the conclusion, i know what i want to do. i want to tell stories. >> he signed himself up for acting classes five days a week. and aside from that he really had picked up little odds and end at jobs he worked at disneyland. he also worked at a local music shop. this is a guy realize he was passionate about something and it really worked very hard to chase that acting bug. >> it was during this time he married cindy who also worked at disneyland with kevin. the couple wed and honeymoon imported by article, mexico.

>> on the way back to los angeles he noticed the famed actor richard burton was on the same flight can you imagine young kevin costner? he said he had an overwhelming desire to talk to him. so i got up the courage and he sat down and said i want to be an actor he said he just looked at me very practically said you know, you should try that she would be good. >> kevin has accredited richard burton for giving him the guts and the courage to chase his dream. >> with richard burton's words of wisdom kevin continued to pursue acting and eventually landed his first role. >> the first big acting role that kevin costner got was in the movie the big chill progress it's a big mo movies directed by lawrence who is in tight with george lucas, david spielberg all those guys progress he gets cast as a friend who committed suicide in the big chill along the whole string of big stars. was very disappointed to see once the movie came out all of

the scenes that he shot ended up on the cutting floor. he said i decided not to make a big deal of it. i said i knew i was going to get something good and then i would have a great story to tell. >> costner small role in this film was a blessing. eventually helping to catapult him into hollywood's a-list for the rest of his career. >> i remember when i got my first glimpse of the mountains i had to take a breath to begin to understand what was so special about it. ♪ >> it's times like that the all questioned. >> i was determined to be out there.

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and called him a couple of years later and said listen i'm making a movie, do you want to be in it? that was silverado. >> it also helped him land the role in fandango which is a small movie a lot of people don't remember it. but folks who saw it or blown away totally blown away. he emerges fully formed as the star persona. >> that was not offered kevin was becoming a real presence in the business. >> very curious guy. so if he would be on a set he would watch how they were making the movie. he would watch who was important. he just taught himself all of the things he needed to know about being a great movie maker. he just wanted to learn what it would be like to be part of greatness. >> us u that western precooked s hard work was paying off he began to encounter it many on-screen successes. quick starting in 1987, that was the period of time went kevin

was really all over the biggest hits in hollywood. you have the untouchables, no way out, bill durham, field of dreams, all of those four movies combined brought in about $284 million to the box office. >> the truth of the cases the man capone is a killer and he will go free precooked is an argument you made this starts a stretch of his career called the epic stretch brickwork to hunt achieve it into an adult we get the camera and say this is who we -- who i am you have fun with that pic lexi had other dreams besides acting for. >> the one was of course it dances with wolves. >> that is right. that day. dances with wolves. ♪ >> if kevin had a crazy dream of becoming an actor or becoming a film maker his dream even crazier was to make eight western like the ones he loved.

he wrote the movie and was determined they were going to do it his way. >> a huge box office hit globally abroad and about $424 million. it was nominated for 12 academy awards precooked i learned a long time ago movies aren't just for americans even it's a very american movie. i believe films are for the world with the foreign press voting this movie it's a great endorsement of what i think about movies is they are not just for the united states. they travel the world and they speak for. >> kevin costner winds up winning best director for dances with wolves just a good classic epic western. >> he director's guild of america voted costner the best director last night at its awards dinner in beverly hills, california but he won the honor for his first directing efforts the epic film dances with wolves precooked can you imagine competing against the kind of people he idolized, he aimed toward, francis, he wins a best

director and he had never directed before precooked to see a good movie if in fact you think dances with wolves is a good movie, it reminds us of what it is we like about this kind of fever, this kind of a love it that we have it's a great thing it's not drugs because it is a habit that we have going to the movies and i believe that implicitly provokes his momentum did not stop. kevin's legendary career blockbuster films was just getting started. costner began a string of films that really showed the world just how diverse he could be. >> talking about a crime pure and simple. >> you've all got to stop thinking on a different level like the cia does. now we are through the looking glass your people. >> 1991 kevin starred in all of her stones at jfk. this is a first role that really went outside the box. >> is very different from what he had been doing. this was a movie that was sure to incite controversy pick up some of her talking to kevin about this movie.

cabot is an unapologetic patriot who loves this country. and he loves history. so playing at jim and garrison was an important role for him. he did a lot of research. he was very careful and being as true to that character as he could. >> he really tried to immerse himself in this character. and learn from where this guy had come from. i finally had that conversation. oh, no, not about that. about what comes next in life. for her. i may not be in perfect health, but i want to stay in my home, where my family visits often and where my memories are. i can do it with help from a prep cook, wardrobe assistant and stylist, someone to help me live right at home. life's good. when you have a plan. ♪ ♪

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but she can tell by his acting how it det determined and dedice is. any role he accepts for the unit diving into the romance genre in the iconic film on the bodyguard started alongside whitney houston. >> huge hit, enormous hit. propelled in part by the great

sound trick by whitney houston of course regrets he was a little nervous about doing the bodyguard. at the beginning you remember they were very tense with each other. but the love scenes were wonderful her music was wonderful. and he is very proud of that movie. >> you know i can help a little bit. whitney let's me sing a little bit. >> at the role as well we had never seen him before. just the international attention it had got from being with whitney in that movie it had really put kevin into a different caliber. really had caught the eye, i think primarily of females. they started to see kevin costner as a heartthrob. >> a special connection between costner and houston carried over for years right up to the news of her tragic and sudden death. >> whitney, if you could hear me now i would tell you you weren't just good enough. you were great. you made the picture what it

was. >> i was at the funeral. you could see how touched kevin was. not only by her talent and their friendship, but the sort of a waste of her life. i think he was very admiring of her. >> is so secret in hollywood and to costner's millions of fans his love for sports, particularly baseball and westerns have become his mo and for good reason. >> if you build it he will come. >> when i think of kevin costner think of westerns, i think of sports movies. >> is this heaven? >> or no, it is iowa. >> field of dreams to him was really a tribute to an ordinary guy. an iowa farmer who gained inspiration from some voices in his head. and kevin believed that movie

was sort of our generations it's a wonderful life. after that film came out people came to kevin costner and said yes, there is her next jimmy stewart. >> kevin did not just make movies about baseball. he was a minority owner of a few minor league teams around the country he had presented some of the top mlb picks during all-star week at fenway park this is a guy that really used probably a little stardom to get more involved with baseball. >> he is also in tin cup it's arguably the best golf movie ever made. you could put it right up there with caddy shack. it's an actual real physical talents he can actually swing a golf club. he can swing a baseball bat. the guy who looks like you play sports. >> an actor, a storyteller and that's what i do when that's not fun anymore i will do something else. >> so would that be? >> probably mind some gold or

fishing on the klondike progress we know is that a real cowboy who was the first is all he did not grow up on horseback. [laughter] he did not grow up in a gunslinger. when kevin was a kid he loved how the west was one. and it affected him profoundly. >> a wethe western genre would y with him for most of his acting career. >> when you look at kevin costner it you associate with him some of the best western films we have seen in recent history. >> costner is taken they love for the western genre to the small screen start in the enormous hit yellowstone. >> we are about to find out how big of a role you play in this family, semper grazie is the role of john denton the patriarch of the family and the owner of the largest family-run ranch in the united states of america progress kevin gets up by a cowboy again and yellowstone. lots of writing and a roping and all the things he loves. but he understood the guy he

plays is not at all all of the time. in order to preserve his family, and order to preserve his way of life he has to do some pretty rotten things. now, the other people do not play fair in this but neither does he. and so being the patriarch of the family carries a lot of responsibility and not always in a heroic way. >> think a lot of people tuned in just to see it because it is kevin costner. and then fell in love with the entire family with the story lines, the drama, the love stories. i think, especially the younger generation saw kevin costner and probably had not seen his earlier movies but saw this guy as somebody they could relate too. and someone who they just fell in love with and really probably saw him as her own father.

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personally think us when thinkn yellowstone really, really blew up. everybody was stuck at home watching tv. >> this is an checker son, this is chester. ♪ yet despite decades of success on the large and small screen, and his philanthropy kevin found that sweet spot too. balancing his career with family life. >> ever forget the people that you have breakfast, lunch, dinner with, your parents but what they talk about, how they go about their business. even if they don't have a lot of money. see my dad go to work in the rain, not call in sick. there's a lot to be learned from people that we pay. >> with his first wife cindy he had three children that he then had a fourth child with the woman he was in a short-term relationship with. he had met kristine. and they share three kids. >> he is a terrific father. >> this is lily. hooley has a nice part of the movie. you can't stop me after that part. pay.

>> he has raised his children south of los angeles in a private coast town. now he spends most of his days and raises his children on a ranch in colorado. lexi understood what fathers and children, the important relationship there. ♪ throughout all the fame kevin remains charitable and involved in a variety of organizations. >> aside from his successful acting career, kevin costner is a big supporter and charities. and foundations. in 2015 he raised $1.1 million for new friends at and new life. that's a nonprofit foundation which raises funds to help those suffering with addiction. in may of 2022 he was black tyson grass roots foundation gala he helped raise at $2.9 million for women and children who are the victims of domestic abuse and violence.

so kevin it really does use his own personal funds, his platform, his name as an actor to help those in need. >> i watched him. he shook everybody's hand. he made sure he went around the tables and talk to people. >> he sits on the committee of a world war i museum in kansas city and supports numerous foundations that support war veterans. >> he is the real thing. he strives for authenticity money doesn't have to strive, he is in it. this is a guy who is a global international fame for decades. millions and millions of dollars in his bank accounts. but he really has always made an effort to stay out of the hollywood scene and the spotlight. >> would pick our hollywood legends, kevin, the crowd loves it. the industry loves him. they regard him as somebody formidable and fabulous.

>> not many actors today are also regarded as true cowboys. but with yellowstone being a monstrous success costner is connected to that title for. >> everyone called him one of the last standing true american cowboys. >> he is an athletic guy is big, he is well-built and heat movess well you can definitely see him being a rancher. >> i think kevin is one of the last american lovers. lovers of the west. and he expresses that in the movies he does, and the songs he picks, and in the way his life is influenced by that code. cuts kevin has left a catalog of blockbuster hits in hollywood all the while weaving his way to the often tumultuous hollywood scene. >> i think what makes kevin costner such a hollywood legend is just his ability to do his

own thing. to stay on track. this is a guy who never ever really let anybody pressure him or force him into doing something he did not want to do. >> john wayne had a saying that i adore he said the great ones don't remind you of anybody else. that's not quite true of transient people call him that you were stuart, they call him gary cooper but he really is just kevin costner. >> the possibilities are endless for kevin costner's future television projects, movies and even a ducky series now with fox nation untitled yellowstone 150. many more iconic moments awaits this great american actor.