On my recent trip to Hawaii, I got in a heated discussion with my host–and loyal MOWC reader–Brendan Higgins on the virtues and flaws of Kevin Costner. It’s popular to think of Costner as a cheesy assball; after all, he directed and starred in two of the biggest bombs of the last 20 years, Waterworld and The Postman; some of his biggest successes, like The Bodyguard and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, have been terrible; and everybody resents him for winning all those Oscars for Dances With Wolves (especially because it beat out GoodFellas, which is the far more beloved and watched movie 15 years later). In the documentary Truth or Dare, Madonna–no stranger to accusations of phoniness and bad acting–memorably complained that one of the pitfalls of fame was having to be nice to losers like Kevin Costner. That was 15 years ago. His reputation hasn’t gotten any better since.
All that being said, there’s a reason that Costner has been playing lead roles in American movies for more than two decades, since soon after he got in show business. The man is a star.
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