Kevin Costnerreacts to Yellowstone outrage over John Duttons death

Kevin Costner isn’t shaking in his boots about the backlash over his “Yellowstone” character being killed off.The 69-year-old actor played John Dutton on the Paramount Network show, last appearing in Part 1 of Season 5 in 2022.

Costner announced he would not return to “Yellowstone” in June amid rumors of a feud with creator Taylor Sheridan.The ranch drama returned earlier this month for the second half of the season and killed off his character, much to the dismay of fans.A hit man fatally shot John, and it was made to look like a suicide.Fans later find out that the girlfriend of his son Jamie (Wes Bentley) orchestrated his murder plot.Costner addressed the outrage surrounding Dutton’s death at the 2024 Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Nov.

17 after fans slammed Sheridan while claiming the character deserved a better send-off.“Fans have a voice in things,” the Oscar winner told E! News, “and they choose to follow stuff.”Costner shared that it was up to the producers to decide what to do with Dutton after the star revealed he wouldn’t be back for part two of the series due to scheduling issues with his four-part movie anthology “Horizon: An American Saga.”“I suggested a while back how to do it,” Costner told the outlet regarding his character’s departure; however, he wouldn’t share what those ideas were.“Who am I? They do what they want.

That’s fine with me,” the star joked.Coster weighed in on Dutton’s death on Nov.

11, just hours after the episode aired.Appearing on SiriusXM’s “The Michael Smerconish Program,” he shared that he “didn’t know it was actually airing last night.”“That’s a swear-to-God moment.I swear to God,” he explained.

“I mean, I’ve been seeing ads with my face all over the place and I’m thinking, ‘Gee, I’m not in that one.’ I’m not in this season.But I didn’t realize yesterday was the thing.

Somebody said, ‘It played last night?’ And I said, ‘Hmm, okay.’...