Kevin Costner reveals what it would take to get him back on Yellowstone after abrupt exit

Kevin Costner might be making a “Yellowstone” comeback.The 69-year-old actor told “CBS Sunday Morning” on June 16 that he’s willing to return to the hit Paramount series, which recently started production on the second half of its fifth and final season.“If I like the story, where it was going, I would go back,” he said.Costner played rancher John Dutton for four and a half seasons on “Yellowstone,” before he exited the series and started working on his western movie “Horizon: An American Saga.”However, Costner told CBS that his reason for leaving “Yellowstone” had nothing to do with his new multi-film big screen project.“I did everything that I was contracted to do with ‘Yellowstone,’ ” said Costner.In May 2023, news broke that Costner would not return to “Yellowstone” after Season 5.

(This was before Paramount said that Season 5 would be the show’s last.) That same month, it was announced that the show would end with Season 5, leading to speculation that the show was ending in part because Costner was leaving.There were also reports that Costner refused to be on set filming for more than one week for the second half of Season 5, which Costner’s attorney denied.The Golden Globe winner finally broke his silence about the feud rumors with creator Taylor Sheridan last month.“I have taken a beating from those f–king guys, and I know a lot of times where it’s coming from.I just elected not to get into that.

But if you know me well enough, I made ‘Yellowstone’ the first priority, and to insinuate anything else would be wrong.I did not initiate any of those things.

They did,” Costner told Deadline.Sheridan, for his part, made it seem like Costner wanted to leave “Yellowstone” to make “Horizon.”“He and the network were arguing about when he could be done with ‘Yellowstone.’ I said, ‘We can certainly work a schedule toward [his preferred exit date],’ which we did,” Sheridan, 54, told the Holl...