Kevin Costner Explains His Decision to Leave ‘Yellowstone’ ｜ The Rich Eisen Show.

You and I have spoken about this, um, you know, away from the lights and whatever. But I, I do want to tell you here, like I'm one of those folks who's kind of gutted that you're not going to be in Yellowstone anymore. Yeah. I Kevin, you know, I love making that thing. And I, you know, when it came to me, uh, it wasn't on the radar of anyone. I recognize what I thought was great writing, but what it could be. And, and I believe so much in it that I wanted to take people on that ride. And I went over and sold it overseas. And I think, uh, you know, a belief, you know, stood behind Taylor's good, good writing. And so I think I tried to prop it up that way and didn't one season turned into five. And then, uh, I wanted to work obviously more than once a year. And I, I kept horizon or kept Yellowstone in first position, but it needed to stay on course. It needed to have a, you know, an exact amount of time so that I could go ahead and do other things. And, um, and those things had to be firm in order for me to effectively do something like horizon where I have two or 300 people waiting for me. And I can't allow myself to not live with the contracts that I made to those people. So the idea that I just wanted to do more than one thing a year. And, um, and, and five years later, I realized I just have to stop to make sure that can happen. So I saw the video that you placed out there on social media late last week, essentially, I guess, confirming. It was, no, I just decided that there, cause I was in this midst of doing press for horizon. Yes. What are you going to do? And I'm, you know, I'm saying I like the saying I would like to continue, but because there didn't seem to be anything really in motion, I just thought, well, let's take away the mystery. I mean, so this is not going to happen. And so until something's really clear to me, I just decided for people that have followed the kind of movies I want to be a part of, I was going to let them know, no, I'm not doing this, you know, in this way, it's not going to happen. And so it's, you won't appear at all in the upcoming season. I'm not in any of those. Do you know what's happened to your character? No, I have no idea. I'm not in that mix. You're in the mix of horizon right now. Yeah. That is for, I am like, I'm like, you know, that pool where you can on your tiptoes to get the breath. That's what I'm doing. I'm just figuring out how to make three. I'm going West myself. I'm like, I've got a, I've, I've burned my ships. I'm just there. I, I, I made a promise to myself that I'm going to make these, that I'm making them for an audience. And when I'm done, I'm going to feel like, okay, that was what I was supposed to do. And they live forever, good or bad. They live forever. Well, this is beautiful, man. Again, everyone should see horizon as soon as you can and see it on the big screen as well. Uh, this coming Friday is chapter one. Chapter two is later this summer on August 16th. And then chapter three is currently in principle. I'm making it right now. You're making it right now. It is just an incredible, um, film about so many people and it's, uh, I mean, the number of characters and storylines that you have, it's just, it is, it all starts to push together. It's like that first center page of a novel and all of a sudden you go and then it clicks and then it all, and that's what happens when two and with two, it just, there's no magic pill. The West was hard and it gets harder for these people. Catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku channel, 12 to three Eastern for free.