Kevin Costner was at odds with the British royal family members in the 1990s.
Through his interview on “The Howard Stern Show” on Tuesday, the Oscar winner, 69, confirmed that a sequel to his strike 1992 movie “The Bodyguard” with Whitney Houston was in the is effective with Princess Diana as his prepared co-star.
Nevertheless, Diana’s demise in summer time 1997 prompted the job to be canceled — and Costner subsequently faced the wrath of the royals, who did not believe that the princess was prepared to do a Hollywood movie.
“When Diana handed, about a 12 months afterwards it experienced leaked out that I was prepping ‘Bodyguard 2’ with her. And what occurred was, the royal household form of turned on me a small little bit,” he recalled.
“Like, ‘No, that’s not real.’ And it obtained essentially type of ugly,” Costner ongoing. “And I let it go for a whilst. It just acquired uglier and uglier.”
The “Yellowstone” star stated that he ended up achieving out to Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, who originally related Costner with Diana, and requested for her assistance.
“Finally I identified as up Sarah, and stated, ‘Sarah, you will need to convey to me who is leading the demand there on this issue. She goes, ‘No, no, no, Kev, you really do not want to converse to them.’ I claimed, ‘Yes I do.’ I referred to as them up and I said, ‘I’m telling you something, you will need to halt due to the fact it is real. And if you never quit, I’m gonna get started. For the reason that it was.’”
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At the time that Costner was making an attempt to make “The Bodyguard 2,” Diana was separated from her previous partner Prince Charles (now King Charles) and was on the outs with the royal relatives ruled by the now-late Queen Elizabeth II.
Costner spelled out how he got Diana to concur to do the movie.
“What experienced occurred was, I started off chatting to her through Sarah, and I stated, ‘Look, I’m gonna do ‘Bodyguard 2′ and I consider I can construct this all around you. Would you be interested?’ ” he recalled. “And she goes, ‘Yes. My life’s about to modify.’ I didn’t definitely go into depth with it, but I thought I understood what she was expressing.”
He included, “She was extremely sweet and we talked. The 2nd time we talked she mentioned, ‘Is there heading to be a kissing scene?’ I claimed, ‘Do you want there to be a single?’ She said, ‘Yeah,’ and I mentioned, ‘Then we’ll do that.’ I was not going to make the total romance about her. But there was going to be a moment that we did. And she was so sweet about this.”
Diana died in a car or truck crash in Paris in August 1997 at the age of 36, and Costner made a decision not to move ahead with “The Bodyguard” sequel. “I could not substitute Princess Di,” he mentioned.
Costner also disclosed that several years following Diana’s passing, he read from her eldest son Prince William, who required to meet up with with the actor in Scotland.
“We meet in a space. There is no person in the area. I sat across from him and he seemed at me and he said, ‘My mom fancied you,” he recalled. “It was the sweetest, gentlest matter. He thought the story, and consider it or not immediately after the speak with the royal spouse and children, about two a long time later on the butler came out and reported, ‘Yeah, that was the true what Kevin was declaring, that she [Diana] was gonna do it.’”
Costner to start with spoke about the strategies for “The Bodyguard” in 2012, describing that the plot was likely to examine Diana’s challenging romance with the paparazzi. He reported at the time that a script for the movie arrived on his desk the working day in advance of Diana’s loss of life.
Ironically, Diana died seeking to flee paparazzi, who had been chasing her via the streets of Paris that evening.
