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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Was Kevin Costner Fired from His First Big Movie Before He Was Famous? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: There's a movie that made a massive cultural splash in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three. The Big Chill is the name.
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  Speaker 1: It's an all time classic with a stacked cast of icons,
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Close, Kevin Klein, William Hurt, Jeff Goldbloom, just to
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  Speaker 1: name a few.
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  Speaker 3: And it turns out that there was also supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be a name included Kevin Costner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Kevin actually played a pivotal role in the
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  Speaker 2: original cut. The movie is about the funeral of the
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  Speaker 2: glue guy in a close knit group of college friends,
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  Speaker 2: and Kevin played that character in a series of flashbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, writer director Laurence Cosden decided during the edit that
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  Speaker 1: it worked better without the flashback sequences, and he just
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  Speaker 1: opened up to Deadline about it, basically saying, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: had to cut the Kevin Costner from my film.
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  Speaker 2: Though Kevin was not yet the legendies today, he'd only
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  Speaker 2: done a movie or two, and Lawrence called him personally
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  Speaker 2: and was crushed to tell him the bad news.
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  Speaker 3: But Kevin's answer might have been what paved the road
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  Speaker 3: for his superstardom.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin told him for four weeks to rehearsals he got
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  Speaker 2: to hang around with his uber talented cast as a
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  Speaker 2: total newbie, like the best acting school in the world.
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  Speaker 2: He called it still the greatest experience of his life.
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  Speaker 3: Anne Lawrence was so moved that he promised he'd write
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  Speaker 3: a role for him in his next movie.
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  Speaker 2: Which was Silverado, which launched Kevin in a superstardom that's
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  Speaker 3: Direct from Hollywood.