Kevin Costner took his family to the Los Angeles premiere of his new movie, Horizon: An American Saga on Monday, when he made the rare move of posing up for photos with five of his seven children.
The 69-year-old Yellowstone veteran looked like a proud papa as he stood walked the red carpet with five of his kids, whom he had with two different wives.
They were all gussied up for the splashy event as they posed away on the red carpet with their Oscar-winning dad.
The Hollywood actor was joined by daughter Annie, 40, and son Joe, 36, whom he shares with ex-wife Cindy Silva. But Lily, 37, was not.
His youngest kids, Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 13, were also there. Their mother is ex-wife Christine Baumgartner.
Kevin Costner and his kids: from left, Joe, Hayes, Cayden, Grace, Kevin, Annie at the LA premiere of Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 at Regency Village Theatre in LA on Monday
Costner and Bridget Rooney's son, Liam, 26, was also absent from the red carpet event.
A year ago Baumgartner filed for divorce from Costner after almost 20 years of marriage.
She has since moved on with Josh Connor. And Kevin appears to now be dating rock folk singer Jewel but they have yet to go public with their romance.
Ahead of Horizon's Cannes premiere on Sunday, the two-part saga already been acquired by Metropolitan FilmExport, according to Variety.
It stars Sienna Miller, Luke Wilson, Sam Worthington and Jena Malone.
The movie series follows a family that discovers the lure of the Old West as the Civil War divides the country. Horizon: An American Saga makes its world premiere Sunday at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
On Monday his interview with GQ came out where he talked about his son working on the movie.
'I felt time slipping…he's now 15,' he said of his boy.
Annie, 40, is seen left, and Grace, 13, is right
Joe, 36, is left. Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, are right
'I thought the window was closing on me being able to be an effective part in that movie. And so I basically burned my ships.
'Like Cortés, we're f***ing here. I'm going to make this. And I mortgaged property. Now do you get it?'
He also said he has put $38M of his own money into the films.
'I guess I could buy apartments and I could buy McDonald's and I could buy a bunch of things and just grow, grow, grow, grow…'
'That's the message I want my kids to understand about who I am: that I do what I believe in. I have fear like everybody else. I don't want to be humiliated.'
They were also seen with dad at the Palais des Festivals earlier in the day
The actor was joined by daughters Annie, 40, and Lily, 37, whom he shares with ex-wife Cindy Silva. Costner's son Joe, 36 — also from his first marriage to Silva — was not present. His youngest kids, Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 13, were also present. Their mother is ex-wife Christine Baumgartner
Here Costner is seen left with Cindy in 1993 and right with Christine in 2022
Costner and his children Joe (now 36 and not at Cannes), Annie and Lily at the Cineplex Odeon in Century City, California in 1999
And he touched on his marriage from Christine falling apart.
'Very serious stuff. And those things are very important. I have to deal with them,' he told GQ.
'And I have to deal with them on a daily basis, emotionally, historically almost. And then there’s the immediate needs of children. I’m not going to list the things—I’m going to stop right there with them. That is my job, looking at that, and dealing with that.'
He added: 'I’ve taken big bites out of life, life’s taken big ones out of me, right? I’m not going to lose myself because I’ve been bruised. I have been, but I’m not going to lose myself. And what I’m going to do is—because we are now after the white whale, okay?
'So I can’t let go of this rope no matter how much my heart’s on the ground, no matter how broken I may be on a daily basis, I can’t let go of this rope because if I do, this thing called Horizon will stop.
Kevin with a friend, center, and, far left, Jewel; Kevin and Jewel are reportedly dating
Christine has gone public with beau Josh Connor
'And Horizon’s not more important than the other things in my life, but I do have a level of responsibility to those guys that invested with me, to the people that believe in me, to the people that want to work all four of these, and are willing to postpone other jobs on the hint that I might work.
'And so it doesn’t matter how much water’s hitting me in the face, I can’t let go of the rope that is this thing.
'Pull. Don’t just f***ing hold on. Pull the f***ing rope too.'
Kevin also talked Yellowstone to GQ.
Yellowstone has not ended yet.
It is only halfway through its fifth season and there are no solid plans to finish the ranch life saga.
Costner - who plays patriarch John Dutton on TV's number one show - shared some insights to GQ.
The Oscar-winning star maintained that he told creator Taylor Sheridan he would help end the series, but no scripts have ever come his way.
He co-wrote and directed Horizon, in which he stars with Sienna Miller, Luke Wilson, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone
And Costner also said that he and Taylor have a 'private' reason for not going forward, hinting they have disagreements over how the show should end.
But the star, who is promoting his movie Horizon, said that he wants to help end the Dutton saga for the sake of the 'audience.'
Just hours after Kevin's interview surface, Paramount Network announced that Yellowstone had already started production on the end of season five and was currently filming in Montana.
The series is slated to return on November 10, 2024.
The Oscar-winning star maintained that he told creator Taylor Sheridan he would help end the series, but no scripts have ever come his way; last week he said he would not film any more on Yellowstone
Yellowstone premiered in 2018 and has since attracted as many as 10 million viewers.
On the show, Costner plays John Dutton III, who fights to save his ranch; he has been compared to a Godfather character because he uses murder to keep his business and family together.
The show needs an ending, but there has been talk that Kevin was too busy or wanted too much money or wanted too much say to get it done.
He said last week he would not do any more filming on Yellowstone.
