Gayle King Grills Kevin Costner On His Reasons for Leaving Yellowstone

After the announcement that the last batch of the hit Paramount series “Yellowstone” season 5 part two will premiere on November 10, Kevin Costner who played the character John Dutton in all five seasons announced in a video he shared on Instagram that he will not be reprising his role as John Dutton in the upcoming final part.

He told his followers: “Hi everyone. I just want to reach out and let you know that after this long year and a half of working on Horizon and doing all the things that’s required, and thinking about Yellowstone — that beloved series that I love — that I know you love. I just realized that I’m not going to be able to continue Season 5b or into the future.”

He continued, “It was something that really changed me, I loved it, and I know you loved it. And I just wanted to let you know that I won’t be returning. I love the relationship that we’ve been able to develop, and I’ll see you at the movies.”

During an interview with “Extra’s” Billy Bush on June 23, the “Draft Day” actor told his host that he left the series because he felt that “It was just time to move on and as gracefully as you can with something that’s been very important to you.”

Gayle King — Is Costner ‘Playing A Game’ Of Whose Ego Is ‘Bigger?’

Costner recently appeared on “CBS Morning” and host Gayle King, 69, probed the actor to spill the real reason he left the hit series and is currently focusing on his upcoming movie “Horizon: An American Saga.” King began her questions by baiting Costner into revealing whether or not his leaving the show had to do with him and the show’s creator Taylor Sheridan “playing a game of ‘Whose [ego] is bigger?'”

King said, “[People] say because of Horizon, it caused problems for you on Yellowstone,” “People say this about the two of you: both big egos, both very powerful, both at the top of their game, and that right now, maybe you two are playing a game of whose is bigger? Do you see it that way? Whose is bigger, Kevin?”

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The 69-year-old actor apparently saw through King’s query and smartly replied, “I love the show, I loved the show before anybody. It was Taylor and myself. The truth never changes – that love was really strong. The idea of going back – I would do that in a second if I felt that it was… If it was something that I could do, wanted to do, I would make it fit.”

But then, King wouldn’t back down so she probed further, “If it’s not that hard, why can’t the two of you be able to work it out?” To which Costner curtly remarked, “This isn’t therapy, Gayle, I mean we’re not gonna discuss this on the show.” Although King tried to insist that she was a good therapist, Costner wasn’t buying it.

He simply told his host, “There was a moment where that show for me stopped for 14 months… That’s the fact. I could have done a lot of things in that time, but I wasn’t aware that that [hold-up] was going to happen. In the very end, I couldn’t do any more for it than I had already done.”

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