Kevin Costner is defending casting his son Hayes in his movie “Horizon: An American Saga,” as the film gets critically panned.
on Monday. “And I don’t want to take those parts away from them just ’cause I can place my own children in.”“He’s a beautiful boy, and he’s quiet. And I have not shoved my children into the business,” Kevin Costner said about his son Hayes.wrote in their scathing review that a movie “needs to have a plot, a bit of credible characterization, and a structure that preferably includes a beginning, middle and end. ‘Horizon’ doesn’t have any of those.
“a misogynistic, racist . . . mess” and critic Esther Zuckerman wrote, “I’m not sure why Costner didn’t turn this into the television project it so wishes to be. Perhaps he just wanted to one up ‘Yellowstone,’ the wildly popular Taylor Sheridan show, on which he played John Dutton, and whichCostner has previously spoken about how “Horizon” is his passion project.
Hayes is one of Costner’s seven children. The Oscar winner has Annie, 40, Lily, 37, and Joe, 36, with ex-wife Cindy Silva. He has a son, Liam, 26, with Bridget Rooney. And his three youngest children — Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 13 — are with ex-wife Christine Baumgartner, whom he“But, in a sense, it was a smaller part,” he explained. “I selfishly wanted him with me for the week, two weeks, he was with me. And we would drive to the set every day, and he would whisper.