Kevin Costner Reveals Why He's Leaving 'Yellowstone'

If you're going to leave the most popular show on cable television the same year that the very same role wins you a Golden Globe? You better have a good reason. For Kevin Costner, it's an epic western film titled Horizon—which he hopes will rival the success of his other epic western franchise, Yellowstone. How did Costner land here? For one, there's reportedly been an ongoing battle of egos behind the scenes between Costner and Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan. Costner had also allegedly promised Sheridan just a week of his time to finish filming the rest of Season Five. The actor was splitting his professional duties between Yellowstone and Horizon, which may have affected his personal life. But Costner has only doubled down. [View in Browser]( [Esquire]( [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( [Kevin Costner Is Leaving Yellowstone For Another Western Epic]( [Kevin Costner Is Leaving Yellowstone For Another Western Epic]( If you're going to leave the most popular show on cable television the same year that the very same role wins you a Golden Globe? You better have a good reason. For Kevin Costner, it's an epic western film titled Horizon—which he hopes will rival the success of his other epic western franchise, Yellowstone. How did Costner land here? For one, there's reportedly been an ongoing battle of egos behind the scenes between Costner and Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan. Costner had also allegedly promised Sheridan just a week of his time to finish filming the rest of Season Five. The actor was splitting his professional duties between Yellowstone and Horizon, which may have affected his personal life. But Costner has only doubled down. [Read More](   [Officially, the 13 Best Pens of All Time]( [Officially, the 13 Best Pens of All Time]( Tried and tested. This is serious. [Read More]( [The Improbable Story of How the Savannah Bananas Changed Baseball]( [The Improbable Story of How the Savannah Bananas Changed Baseball]( How did a group of journeymen become the most viral team in sports? By inventing a new game. (Literally.) [Read More](     [The Rock Is Back in Fast and Furious. It's Been a Long Time Coming.]( [The Rock Is Back in Fast and Furious. It's Been a Long Time Coming.]( “I’ll see you soon.” That memorable goodbye from Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) to Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) at the end of Fast Five might as well have also served as the final words of Fast X—considering Johnson’s shocking appearance in the mid-credits tag. The bad blood publicly began in 2016, when Johnson called out some of his “candy ass” Fast male costars, a reference that was confirmed to be about Diesel. Johnson then led his own spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw, and subsequently sat out 2021’s F9. With the end of the franchise looming, Diesel posted a plea to Johnson on social media. Johnson soon responded by saying there was “no chance” he’d come back, accusing Diesel of “manipulation.” And yet, at the end of the day, Johnson looked himself in the mirror—and maybe flexed out of an arm cast—and said, “Daddy’s gotta go to work!” [Read More](   [The Dark and Stormy Has the Best—and Most Controversial—Name in Cocktails]( [The Dark and Stormy Has the Best—and Most Controversial—Name in Cocktails]( Technically, there's only one legal way to make one. Chris Moore, Head of Bars at the Ned, shows you how. [Read More]( [23 Golf Shoes for Sneakerheads, Traditionalists, and Everything In Between]( [23 Golf Shoes for Sneakerheads, Traditionalists, and Everything In Between]( Walkers, riders, shoe dogs and spike-lovers—we've got you. [Read More](     [Inside Daniel: The Most Influential Kitchen in NYC]( [Inside Daniel: The Most Influential Kitchen in NYC]( Daniel, chef Daniel Boulud’s flagship restaurant on the Upper East Side, is turning thirty years old this month and I wanted to write something nice about it. Thirty is a big number, especially for a restaurant. After three decades, a restaurant is definitely not new—hell, a two year old restaurant is quasi-geriatric—but it’s not old enough, like Peter Luger (1887) or Russ & Daughters (1914), that its age has an enduring momentum of its own. Most restaurants are like lowland tapirs: they begin to peter out at around thirty. This is not the case for Daniel, either the restaurant or the man. Both are in fine fettle. One sporting a year-round tan; the other a newly refreshed dining room. “The joke is,” says Lior Lev Sercaz, the spice impresario who worked with Daniel from 2002 to 2007, “is that everyone has worked for Daniel, even if you think you’ve never worked for Daniel.” [Read More](   [Win a 6-Night Luxury Getaway to Costa Rica ($4,500 Value)!]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection]( esquire.com ©2023 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019