Kevin Costner has unveiled Princess Diana when harbored a crush on him.
Costner, 69, reported during an interview with People, printed on Tuesday, June 18, that Prince William spilled the beans to him during a solution meeting about “15 years” right after Costner’s movie, The Bodyguard, was released in 1992.
“I was likely to make a second a person of [The] Bodyguard … Diana and I started to talk,” the Yellowstone actor, who experienced planned to cast Diana in a sequel to the film, informed the outlet.
Costner additional that he “ultimately experienced a quite sweet discussion with Prince William,” who mentioned, ‘You know my mother kind of fancied you?’”
Costner in depth that William, 41, referred to as the meeting when Costner was in England and the pair spoke for about 50 % an hour, with “nobody else” in the room. “I bought this concept that the prince would really like to chat, and I explained, ‘What? ‘… and then I went, ‘OK.’”
When Costner’s lips are sealed above the meeting’s agenda, the memory of their private trade has by no means still left him. “I’ll under no circumstances say what we talked about but it was a really sweet point,” Costner claimed. “I’ve had these fond reminiscences of who he [William] was … and what we talked about.”
Costner, who stars in Horizon: An American Saga, which is set for launch on Friday, June 28, uncovered in 2019 that Diana was intrigued in starring in a sequel to The Bodyguard, which initially showcased Whitney Houston.
In the new job interview, Costner in depth Diana’s short involvement in the task, revealing that it was yet yet another member of the royal spouse and children who set the job on Diana’s radar.
“Sarah [Ferguson] was the a single who established this up,” Costner mentioned. “Sarah was incredibly awesome, when she could’ve been going, ‘Well, I’m a princess, what about me,’ she didn’t. She never ever inserted herself and Diana and I began to discuss.”
Costner advised Leisure Tonight in 2019 that Diana, who died in a automobile incident in Paris in 1997, arrived quite shut to doing the job together with him.
“The studio favored the concept of performing a Bodyguard 2 [with Princess Diana] in the similar form of potential as Whitney,” Costner reported. “I just try to remember her [Diana] remaining amazingly sweet on the cellular phone when she questioned the concerns. She goes, ‘Are we going to have like a kissing scene?’ But she claimed it in a really respectful — she was a minimal anxious due to the fact I imagine her daily life was pretty governed.”
In a 2019 interview with People today, Costner stated he “received the script for the sequel in August 1997,” just one day prior to Diana’s dying.
Costner just lately reported he has fond memories of his unique Bodyguard costar, Houston, who died at the age of 48 in 2012.
“I loved her — it’s not like this big mystery — so I realized that she really should be the just one,” he stated of casting Houston in the lead role throughout the June 3 episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast.