In a somewhat less-than-expected turn of events after Independence Day, actor Kevin Costner appeared for an interview with Fox News Digital and honored this great country when he shared with Fox News a powerful, patriotic message that revealed his love for America and how he sees the Fourth of July as such a special day for him.
As background, Costner is generally out of the news other than with his highly publicized divorce case and with stories relating to his projects, namely Yellowstone and his well-liked and generally non-woke Western that recently came out, Horizon: An American Saga. He did, however, alienate some fans by supporting Trump-hating Republican Liz Cheney in her lost reelection race, and, in 2020, now-Transportation Secretary “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg.
In any case, he had a welcome and stirringly patriotic message to share with Fox News Digital. He said, speaking about Independence Day, “It is an opportunity to look back at the journey of America, and before America was America.” Continuing, he explained, “There is something to protect here. There is something to celebrate.”
He then spoke about the presidency, saying that the race should be about what the public wants and not about the egos of those involved. He said, “That is a public service. [It] should be about the public, to begin with. Not about someone’s next four years. It can’t be.” He continued, “It has to be first and foremost about what’s broken here, and there’s always gonna be something to be done. How we fit in the world? What is our place?”
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Previously, speaking with Entertainment Weekly about his Horizons: An American Saga project, he explained how the movie is meant to portray the hardships our ancestors underwent while settling the West, saying, “There’s real drama in how people crossed this country. There’s always this tendency to think it was a simpler time. It was infinitely more difficult. You were dealing with unknowns. You didn’t know where you were going. You had to arbitrate your own problems…”
He continued, explaining the high stakes the settlers faced and how much harder that was than modern life. He said, “When you were confronted with issues, you had to make up your mind very quickly in very tough situations. Sometimes, life and death situations. Try that on a daily basis and see if you don’t want to live with your computer and s—.”
Then, speaking about how the story is meant to connect people with that real-life hardship rather than be a Disney-like story, he said, “If you search for stories, you find incredible drama and realize that it’s not a land in Disneyland. It’s not Frontierland. It was real stakes. And it was a 200 or 300-year struggle to cross this country.”
He also noted that he tried telling the story truthfully, saying, “I don’t want to be the person who’s setting the record straight or ‘Oh, here comes the history lesson.’ That’s not me. But women are dominant in my film. I want to highlight what their contributions were. Without women, the West dies. It never happens. This country doesn’t happen. They have a place in these stories.”
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