1 week Ago By Lauren DuBois
Kevin Costner has officially broken his silence on the way Yellowstone handled the fate of his character, John Dutton, after he didn’t come back for the final portion of the show’s last season. The actor’s presence was previously reported to be something that was hard to be without as the show filmed its final episodes, but that didn’t stop the shocking reveal in the opening moment of the season five part two premiere–that John Dutton was dead. Fans weren’t impressed by the reveal either .
Yellowstone fans fume over 'disappointing' season 5, part 2 return Yellowstone Season 5 finally unveils tragic fate of Kevin Costner's character However, Costner had yet to speak about the dramatic reveal that his character has died after committing suicide by gunshot. He has since addressed it in The Michael Smerconish Program on Sirius XM, admitting he wasn’t in a rush to watch the final episodes. “Well, I’m going to be perfectly honest.
I didn’t know it was actually airing last night,” he admitted. “..
.I’m not in this season. But I didn’t realize yesterday was the thing.
Somebody said, ‘It played last night?’ And I said, ‘Hmm, okay.’ So no, I found out about it this morning actually.” “I didn’t see it.
I heard it’s a suicide, so that does’t make m want to rush to go see it,” he added. “I heard what it was, but no, they’re smart people. Whatever they’re doing, they’ll figure it out,” he continued.
“But yeah, I had come up with two possible endings back when it wasn’t going to go as long as it did go.” His reaction came as many expressed horror in the opening moments of the episode, as a suicide seemed out of character. It was revealed later that his death actually came via a murder that was set up to look like a suicide.
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“It was something that really changed me. I loved it. And I know you loved it.
And I just wanted to let you know that I won’t be returning and I love the relationship we’ve been able to develop and I’ll see you at the movies.”.
