our conversation with kevin costner. starting this monday, may 28, you can catch his latest project, a three-night, six- hour miniseries for the history channel. it is called "hatfields & mccoys." before we jump back into our conversation, here now another scene from "hatfields & mccoys." chanl. since there are so many actors, a-list actors in fact, who are finding comfortable spaces on television to tell stories now, what is it about this particular miniseries that you think works well in this format that might not have worked so well as a movie? >> well, you can tell right awayit is not just the hatfields and mccoys. it is my uncles, it is my aunts, you know, it is my children. tavis: right. >> so we were able to create a real community to try to understand how this thing actually happened. what most people do not know, west virginia and kentucky were ready to go to war over these two families. tavis: the governors got involved. that is how serious it is, yes. >> the hatfields were in west virginia and said you cannot

our conversation with kevin costner. starting this monday, may 28, you can catch his latest project, a three-night, six- hour miniseries for the history channel. it is called "hatfields & mccoys." before we jump back into our conversation, here now another scene from "hatfields & mccoys." >> witness on the old bill of sale. 59. somehow, he got himself buried in 1957. do you recall that? >> it may be a victim of a fraud. this obviously changes things, mr. hatfield. we renounce claims to the timberlands on your lands and apologize for putting forward an invalid claims. you deserve to be compensated, and you shall be. $22 a year. what do you want, mr. hatfield? >> you went to have all that is mine, so i must be entitled to have all that is yours, at least would you inherited from your daddy. >> that is 5,000 acres. >> do not hardly much what the land, just the timber rights. tavis: this is like a reunion for a few of you guys from the "wyatt earp" movie. >> that is right. occasionally, you get to bump up against, you know,

tavis: kevin costner's band, for those who do not know -- i know kevin costner and modern west.how did you come up with that one, modern west? >> that was the worst part of this whole musical thing for me coming back into music. there's one moment where we're playing and they wanted to pay us a little money to play -- quite a bit of money actually. finally, they said, "well, you need a name." i thought, "a what?" "you need a name." tavis: a band has to have a name, man. [laughs] >> there i was as an adult with my friends trying to think of a name for this band. it was probably one of the low there was a big long list of names. it was like we finally came up with modern west. i actually do not even like it, but that is what they call it. so i came up with modern west and the band came up with kevin costner and modern west. they said, "please, it is got to be kevin costner and modern west." i said, "man, i feel like my head is so far out there to be chopped off." all right. so there it is. that was not a pleasant experience, coming up with a tavis: since we are talking about it, w

tavis: please welcome kevin costner t this program. the oscar winner is one of hollywood's most recognizable artists and the past two decades. a string of memorable project. he is a small sample of some of his outstanding work. >> i should have been here, i wanted to be. >> i understand, i do. just tell me, are you being careful? are you making progress? >> i think your husband just became the man that got out capone. >> lieutenant dunbar? >> yes, sir? actually, i am here at my own request. i always wanted to see the frontier. >> if you go there, he will come. -- build it. >> you don't look like a body guard. >> what did you expect? >> i dunno, maybe a tough guy. >> and this is my disguise. ♪ tavis: the thankfully, your career is nowhere near being over, but if the hatfields and mccoys was the last project on top of the awesome body of work, would you be happy with your porpoise? >> i would. i was surprised how happy i was with hatfields and mccoys. playing this quintessential american role, guns and vengeane american fabric of how we

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craig: you're like the opposite of kevin costner in that movie. >> that's who i am now.kill guy. that's not real. he's not real. craig: he's real. >> no, this wood isn't rell. i'm starting to question your existence. craig: you may have a point. listen. you're a comedian. don't do that. are you desperately sad when you're not performing? >> i don't know if desperately sad. i would say a little bit anxious. a bit angry. i'm not sad. it is good to get on stage and do some jokes and sort of pretend like people like you, but i don't know if sad is the right word. sometimes when i'm at home and i'm not doing anything, i'll just be sitting there and i'll say something like this is ridiculous and there is no one else around and then i'll realize wow, that was pretty -- craig: that is pretty sad. >> do you ever consider that like a lot of times you're freaking out about something that is completely in your head? have you ever had that moment where you're like it is over. my life is over. everything is horrible. craig: it is like you're in my head right now, man. get out of my he

the question is is it more like the kevin costner version or romneyhood men in tights?game against canada as the neighbors from the north refuse to back down forcing extra time. it's "way too early" for this. >>> hi, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. this is "way too early," the show that is much more fun when i'm watching from my sofa at home. glad you're watching us. let us know why you're awake. or tweet us. or you can do what alex morgan do and text the word "awake" followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. that was a go usa yell. before we get to the news, willie geist is in london to give us a preview of what to expect. willie, good morning. >> i couldn't agree more. the show looks so much better from a distance. especially five hours ahead. >> when i'm on my sofa watching you, it's a great show. >> not as great standing there at 5:30 being on tv. i have great olympic action. an incredible game. they are calling it one of the best soccer games ever. canada leads the loss to the u.s. one player saying the referee should have

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professor movie series directed patch adams starring robert william or robyn williams dragon-fly with kevin costner you were an executive producer at the a.b.c. t.v. series eight simple rules for dating my teenage daughter what have you learned from the breath of experience. well i've learned how important storytelling is in the human experience you know madeleine l'engle is a famous author she wrote a wrinkle in time and she said jesus was not a theologian he was god amongst us who told stories and i think storytelling is as old as the human species i think we used to sit around a fire and we used to talk about the day and and it's how we learned to be human how we learned to walk. more empathetically more productively and so i've learned about the power of storytelling and you know i've just toured america with the film i am and you would think that some of my later films would be the ones that have really are the films that are more memorable from bruce almighty to patch adams but i tell you it's the simplicity of making a human being laugh ace ventura no matter where i go old and young that's t

. >> you picked yesterday, in case people didn't see it -- kevin costner. >> who should play it in themovie wall street, gordon gekko, sexy in charge michael douglas. >> hoda looks like them that. you wrote in with your ideas. a lot of people, a lot of women thought ryan gosling. >> yeah. >> he's an awfully good actor, too. he's cute on the eyes, but a great actor. a lot of people i think because of "magicing mi inin ining mike channing tatum. >> no, matt bomer first. he is totally hot. >> and channing tatum. he is the sweetest guy. he was here last week for "magic mike." he's from alabama. these southern boys, they've been raised with manners. >> i agree. >> i didn't mind being called ma'am. . >> no. i like southern boys, too. have you ever had a funyun? seriously, have a funyun. get involved. funyuns are so good. >> christian bale aa lot of you thought, which is interesting because he's not anywhere near 27. >> bite into it. tell me how bad your breath is right now. >> oh, my god. >> they are awesome. you have to sit alone and tear through a bag of these, funyuns. >> they remind me o

and do the best movie i ever did in my life, and harvey weinstein is out there some place and kevin costneroever they are. and i'll find one of them. and i'll go out the way i want to go out. and that's not living some kind of half -- [ bleep ] life that old actors live. that's the name of that tune. where were we? >> i was going to bring you to the events of 2001 that obviously dramatically changed your life. before the night that your wife died, tell me about your relationship with bonny lee leading up to that night. >> it's funny, when push comes to shove, whether i'm in a motorcycle joint or a barbershop or wherever, sooner or later, and take this with love, not sharpness, everybody wants to put me on the stand. because i didn't take the stand. okay, i promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. my real name is michael james. i was born in 1933 in nutley, new jersey. now, what would you like to hear? >> what your relationship was like with her before she died. >> my relationship with her was not bad. i felt sorry for her sometimes because god never gave her tha

let's not bring in another bad kevin costner movie. >> a movie is "cool hand luke" and saying what were is a failure to communicate. and what we have here, apparently in the romney campaign, is a real failure to communicate. >> well, you know, the biggest problem is that mitt romney either doesn't know who he is or he doesn't want americans to know who he is. again, we go back to the two great presidents of the 20th century. fdr and ronald reagan. they knew who they were before they raised their hand and took the oath of office and, frankly, they couldn't give a damn if people didn't like the direction they were going. they didn't -- they were agitated by their critics but they just didn't listen. look at mitt romney. what are the three defining things of mitt romney's personal and political life? they're actually three ms and i just thought about this while my mind was wondering and brian sullivan talking about the sock puppet fetish, the first "m" is mormonism. he's proud to be a mormon and can't embrace it too closely for a lot of different reasons. the second "m" is money. he is a

. >> you picked kevin costner. >> in "no way out."in with your ideas. a lot of people, a lot of women thought ryan gosling. >> yeah. >> he's an awfully good actor, too. he's cute on the eyes, but a great actor. a lot of people because of "magic mike" thought of channing tatum. >> no, matt bomer first. he is totally hot. >> and channing tatum. he is the sweetest guy. he was here last week for "magic mike." he's from alabama. these southern boys, they've been raised with manners. >> i agree. >> i didn't mind being called ma'am. >> i like southern boys, too. have you ever had a funion? get involved. these are so good. >> christian ball, a lot of you thought. he is not anywhere near 27. >> bite into it. tell me how bad your breath is right now. >> oh, my god. >> they are awesome. you have to sit alone and tear through a bag of these, fununs. >> they fit right on it. it's unbelievable. boy, do i need a pedicure. >> here is the question. if your friend's husband hit on you, what would you do? if your friend's husband hit on you, what would