I've seen it take eight years I've seen it take ten years. How so? "I have never seen anyone bang their head against the wall for 20 years and then make it. "An interesting thing about Hollywood is, if you let it, if you listen, it will tell you exactly what you're supposed to be doing." "I think stubbornness, a refusal to fail," he replied. He later began to audition, and over the years got parts in shows like "Veronica Mars" and "Sons of Anarchy." But after more than two decades of trying, he never became a leading man.Ĭowan asked, "What kept you going in the acting world?" Taylor Sheridan as Travis Wheatley in "Yellowstone." He couldn't find an actor good enough on a horse to play a horse-trader on "Yellowstone," so Sheridan played the part himself. So, I bought all the horses for the show, and then taught the actors how to ride 'em." They're not very safe, which is one of the reasons you don't see actors on 'em very often. "All the horses, for the most part, in our business are terrible," he said. Sheridan relates to it so well because he lives it – he owns not one, but two ranches in Texas, and actually provides most of the horses for his productions himself. It's like, it's hard to make a Western you can relate to." "They're hard to make, and that's the problem. "Westerns, specifically, they can look really dumb, they can look obvious," Costner said. It's easy to make a bad Western, said Costner making a good one is Sheridan's gift. What you won't find in any of his works are cowboy clichés. "It's fantastically insane." Taylor Sheridan, the writer behind the TV western series "Yellowstone." ![]() "It's ludicrous that I'm working with these people," Sheridan said. It was so popular there's now a sequel to that prequel, the upcoming "1932," starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. He created "1883," the pioneer prequel to "Yellowstone," staring Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. I don't tell people how to act I don't need anyone to tell me how to write."Īnd as writers go, he's been called one of the most important Western storytellers in decades. He said, "I don't run much of a democracy. There's an economy to his language – a directness that he carries to the set, too. "I say about everything I wanna say when I write a story." "My least favorite subject is myself," he noted. He'll talk riding and roping all day long, but much beyond that, he reins it in. If Sheridan looks and sounds the part of a horseman, that's because he is one. "We're, like, a little bit 'Murder, Inc.,' our family – a little bit!" "We're a little violent," Costner said of his TV family. Think "Bonanza" meets "The Godfather." Kevin Costner as Montana rancher John Dutton in "Yellowstone." ![]() The only thing more important is loyalty. Land – that's what Dutton sees as his legacy. John Dutton, a Montana rancher played by Costner, is a man with one boot in the past and one reluctantly in the present. It's a show as sweeping as the family it depicts. "Yellowstone," a production of Paramount (CBS' parent company), was the most-watched scripted series on television last year. Correspondent Lee Cowan with actor Kevin Costner, star of "Yellowstone."įor the last five years, this valley has been his campsite – the backdrop for a modern-day Western that has taken off like a band of wild Mustangs. "This is how you do it – you get it close, you make everything a little convenient!" he told correspondent Lee Cowan. ![]() Not far from Montana's Bitterroot River, a postcard for the American West, Kevin Costner was stoking a fire – pitching logs into a pit several feet away.
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