![]() After a minor role in “The Big Chill” (1983) was left on the editing-room floor, Costner embarked on a highly successful film career. Few actors can claim a better run over five years than Costner from 1987-1991: Eliot Ness in “The Untouchables” (1987), Crash Davis in “Bull Durham” (1988), Ray Kinsella in “Field of Dreams” (1989), Lt. I was gonna do what I what I wanted to do.” ![]() I had been married a year, I was going down the road of an everyday job, and I knew that acting was in my blood. I decided, ‘This is what I’m gonna do!’ … I knew I had to be a provider and I would figure out how to do that, but I wanted everybody off my back. “The biggest important day in my life - a lot of people will think of the Oscars, they’ll think of a lot of different things - but if I think about one of the most important days of my life was when I decided what I would do, and I didn’t really care what other people thought,” he said. During his final year at college, he took an acting class and told his new bride Cindy Silva that acting was going to be the focus of his pursuits. in marketing and finance from California State University Fullerton in 1978. Music was starting to really come alive, and I remember absorbing all of it.”īouncing around California with his electrician father and welfare-worker mother, Costner ultimately graduated from Villa Park High School in 1973, before getting his B.A. “I remember one of the first records I bought was The Youngbloods’, you know, ‘Smile on your brother, everybody get together, time to love one another.’ That whole vibe really started to speak to me. “It was in the ’60s and there was so much music coming out of the ’60s,” Costner recalled. “I was one of the shepherds I usually had one line in the whole thing like, “‘Hark! There it is.'”Īs he entered adolescence, he began to branch out into other musical influences. “My mind wandered and usually that thing on my head was too big and it fell over my eyes,” Costner joked. To this day, Costner can’t remember which gift he carried. ![]() I was in musicals, so music was always a part of our life in our house.” ![]() So I grew up with the music of the church I was trained classically on the piano, and I used to write poetry. “If you’re a Baptist, you always do the manger scene every Christmas and I was a wise guy, I was a wise man. “I was raised a Baptist my grandmother was the piano player, my mom and her sister were in the choir,” Costner said. When I do something I love, it always has a way of working out.”īorn in Lynwood, California, in 1955, Young Kevin experienced music from an early age. “The band was formed just to play music wherever I happened to be making a movie. I didn’t have a grand plan for touring or making a record, but that evolved and it’s pretty emblematic of my career. “All the songs that people will hear were written during the making of movies that hopefully a lot of people saw,” Costner said. So, just like the seemingly illogical dream of building a baseball diamond out of fertile farmland, Costner is plowing the corn of his Hollywood legacy to build a music career with his country-rock group Modern West, which hits The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, next Wednesday, Aug. Just go do what you wanna do! And by the time people catch up to you, you’ve already done it.” Sometimes if you tell people what you want to do, there’s gonna be everybody around you to say, ‘Well, I don’t think you can do that.’ … The truth is, the people that love you the most are also the people that can have a tendency to hold you back. “I’m not any different from anybody listening,” Costner told WTOP. So begins the magical realism of “Field of Dreams” (1989), which remains as much a metaphor for Kevin Costner’s life as it is a five-hanky father-son allegory and baseball classic for the rest of us. Amid so many ears of corn, a farmer’s ear catches the ghostly command of a heavenly voice, whispering a leap-of-faith calling across the wind: “If you build it, he will come.” WASHINGTON - The summer sun sets over an Iowa cornfield.
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