Kevin Costner’s relationship with Princess Diana has come below new scrutiny in latest months.
The world not too long ago realized that within the last 12 months of Diana’s life, she was in preliminary talks to star with Costner in a sequel to his 1992 hit The Bodyguard.
Today, Costner is on a whirlwind promotional tour in help of his new movie Horizon: An American Saga.
And he’s sharing new details about his relationship with Diana and the tough response it elicited from the royals.
Kevin Costner Says He Spoke With Princess Diana About Movie Function
In a brand new interview with Howard Stern, Costner revealed that he first reached out to Diana by means of Prince Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.
“What had happened was, I started talking to her through Sarah, and I said, ‘Look, I’m gonna do ‘Bodyguard 2′ and I think I can build this around you. Would you be interested?’” the Oscar winner recalled (by way of Web page Six).
“She goes, ‘Yes. My life’s about to change.’ I didn’t really go into depth with it, but I thought I understood what she was saying,” he continued.
“She was very candy. The second time we talked, she mentioned, ‘Is there going to be a kissing scene?’ I mentioned, ‘Do you want there to be one?’ She mentioned, ‘Yeah,’ and I mentioned, ‘Then we’ll do this.’
“I wasn’t going to make the full romance about her. But there was going to be a moment that we did. And she was so sweet about this.”
The venture by no means materialized, partly as a result of Diana was killed in a automotive accident shortly thereafter.
Now, Costner claims that the royal household antagonized him within the aftermath of Diana’s demise.
Costner’s Conflict With the Royal Household
“When Diana passed, about a year later it had leaked out that I was prepping ‘Bodyguard 2’ with her. And what happened was, the royal family kind of turned on me a little bit,” Costner revealed to Stern.
“Like, ‘No, that’s not true.’ And it got actually kind of ugly,” the actor continued.
“And I let it go for a while. It just got uglier and uglier.”
Costner recollects that he then took issues into his personal fingers and reached out to Fergie for assist.
“Finally, I called up Sarah, and said, ‘Sarah, you need to tell me who is leading the charge there on this thing,” he instructed Stern this week.
“She goes, ‘No, no, no, Kev, you don’t need to discuss to them.’ I mentioned, ‘Yes I do.’ I known as them up, and I mentioned:
“‘I’m telling you something, you need to stop because it is true. And if you don’t stop, I’m gonna start. Because it was.’”
The friendship between Kevin Costner and Princess Diana might have been transient, nevertheless it sounds just like the royals felt greater than a bit of threatened by it.
Sadly, Diana by no means bought to discover her curiosity in movie appearing.
There have been rumors that Costner is contemplating making the Bodyguard 2 with Meghan Markle, however that appears unlikely.
And the royals are most likely enormously relieved that the sequel will virtually definitely by no means materialize.
