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Kevin Costner Finally Realizes Taylor Sheridan Wasn’t Bluffing

Costner was never coming back to ‘Yellowstone,’ not after his absurd demands for the final season, and Sheridan was perfectly happy to write him out. So why did Costner go public about the breakup now?

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Despite Costner’s team making several overtures during last summer’s strikes, the actor and Sheridan haven’t talked in months. Photo: Presley Ann/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
June 24, 2024

The head-scratcher of the week definitely comes from Kevin Costner, who took to Instagram on Thursday to “announce” that he would not be returning for the final tranche of Yellowstone episodes. Huh? This despite me and others reporting for over a year that creator Taylor Sheridan was writing Costner out of Season 5B due to his insane demands and conflicts with filming the various installments of Horizon: An American Saga.