In the late ’80s, Kevin Costner made what seemed like a reckless career decision. He turned down the lead role of Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October—and “more money than I had ever seen,” as he put it to GQ—to direct and star in Dances With Wolves, an ambitious Western that most studios did not want to make. Though it was Costner’s directorial debut, it proved to be a staggering success.
” This isn’t his first bet since Dances With Wolves. Costner also put some of his own money into 1997’s The Postman, his second directorial effort—a postapocalyptic adventure film that earned about a quarter of its budget at the box office and a handful of Razzies, including for worst picture. When he directed again, returning to the Western genre in 2003’s Open Range, Costner did it, he says, without taking a salary.
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