You’re Welcome, Kevin Costner

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | June 28, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | June 28, 2024 |

Critically acclaimed feminist and ladies’ man Kevin Costner went on the Happy Sad Confused podcast to talk about his upcoming four-movie series, Horizon: An American Saga, and how they’re different from typical Westerns because the female characters “drive the story in every plot line.” He said he “couldn’t conceive of a scene that didn’t involve a woman” while co-writing the films with Jon Baird. Chivalry isn’t dead after all, ladies!

The series, which “chronicles the journey of several characters during and after the Civil War as they settle the American West” (Variety) stars Costner alongside actresses such as Sienna Miller, Jena Malone, Isabelle Fuhrman, Abbey Lee, and Ella Hunt. (See? Women!)

“I make movies for men. That’s what I do,” Costner admitted, “But I won’t make a movie unless I have strong women characters,” (Read: characters played by hot females, which what makes them “movies for men.”) “That’s how I’ve conducted my career. I think that’s why I have a good following. I thank you women for dragging your men here. It was a Western, after all. I just can’t conceive of a movie without having [strong women],” and there he demonstrated why he’s been divorced two times.

You think women are dragging their “men” to a Western movie? Please, the women I know who have men at home are begging them to go to a movie and leave them alone for two hours. Better yet, they’re leaving the men at home and watching the Westerns by themselves. So, yeah, looks like you’ve built your career on our backs, Kevin. You’re welcome.

This isn’t the first time Costner has promised he’s got ladies in his movies. He said on The Kelly Clarkson Show earlier this month: “This has a tremendous amount of women in it,” when referring to Horizon, adding:

“They play such a big part of the West and what happened. They were often taken out there against their will and with their children on the idea that there was something great out there. There was nothing out there except a group of people who lived there for thousands of years. Women were drug into the most terrible of circumstances and made it work. And somehow they don’t find themselves in Westerns and in ‘Horizon’ they dominate.”

You heard it here first, folks: they might be damsels, but they sure ain’t in distress! Well … not for long, anyway.

The first Horizon movie opens in theaters today, so go get your man and get him to the movies!