Is Kevin Costner A Pilot

Before Kevin Costner became one of the biggest movie stars in the globe, he wasn't even sure he wanted to exist an actor. Then, by risk, he talked to one of the biggest film stars in the world.

When he was simply 22-years-old, Costner and his new bride, Cindy, were returning from their honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta. On the same plane, sitting all by himself in an empty row, sat seven-time Oscar nominee Richard Burton.

Costner had been working in marketing, while dabbling in community theater. Though he felt that interim and storytelling might exist his truthful calling, his conservative, blue collar upbringing (his dad was literally a ditch digger) prevented Costner from fully embracing the dream.

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The at present world-famous actor was filled with internal conflict when he saw Burton on that aeroplane. After Costner approached the lauded actor, Burton convinced him to do more than dabble.

"He was famously volatile, he was incredibly talented, and he could take hands said, 'Please go sit back in your seat, that'due south why I bought all these seats around me, so no one would talk to me.' Merely he didn't do that, and he hands could have," Costner told us over the telephone yesterday while discussing his latest role, playing Thomas Harper, young Jack Ryan's (Chris Pine) CIA handler in this weekend'south "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit."

"[Burton had] a gentleness with me. I was really unsure what I wanted to do with my life, and I saw him there, and I intruded on his," said Costner. "I had never been in a play, well, that's not true I had done some community theater, but I was really thinking I could make this a living and I desperately wanted to talk to him. The chat never actually expanded other than there was a gentleness and a kindness, and looking at me saying, 'I retrieve you should try this.'"

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Afterward the conversation ended and the aeroplane landed, Costner and his married woman realized they'd forgotten about airdrome taxes, and they didn't accept enough coin to get habitation to Orangish County, CA. While sitting on their suitcases, trying to figure out a manner home, a limousine stopped in front of the couple. The window rolled down, and Burton wished the Costners good luck.

If Burton got a chance to meet Costner'due south piece of work, nosotros'll never know for sure, but the odds aren't good. Burton died in 1984; Costner's big pause didn't happen until Lawrence Kasdan'south "Silverado" in 1985. However, Burton may very well have seen his young protégé's scarred wrist in Kasdan'southward "The Big Chill," which Costner was famously cutting out of in 1983. Either way, Costner and Burton's airplane conversation was their beginning and last.

"The crime was that we never spoke again. I was probably 22-years-one-time. I didn't make my kickoff check till I was probably 27, 28, and he might accept been gone past then, or not. At showtime I didn't desire to circle back, it's just non how I operate. Only that would accept been a overnice conversation for me."

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Indeed, it would have been an interesting story. Regardless, we're just glad Burton and Costner met at all. Because in some pocket-sized fashion information technology allowed Costner to find the strength to tell so many more than interesting stories.

You can see Costner help tell another one when "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" opens wide this Fri.

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