Kevin Costner ‘furious’ over brutal Hollywood Reporter exposé

A damning cover story in one of Hollywood’s most esteemed publications has sent Kevin Costner off the deep end – literally.

“Furious” over a recent exposé in The Hollywood Reporter, Oscar winner Kevin Costner has gone deep-sea diving in search for sunken treasure — and a hit — a source tells Page Six.

A source told Page Six this week of the Yellowstone star, “Kevin Costner is on a deep-sea diving binge to discover sunken treasure.”

The insider added: “He found gold coins and emeralds recently in the Caribbean. Now he’s shopping a TV series on finding sunken treasure around the world.”

But, “no one has signed on to finance it,” citing the star’s cold streak around town.

The THR piece alleged that Costner has had a “long series of unfortunate incidents” in a career “marked by feuds, walkouts, lawsuits, financing fiascos and a growing reputation for being, as one former colleague put it, ‘impossible.’”

The Hollywod Reporter's recent profile of Kevin Costner had Tinseltown talking.

Costner is now forgetting his career troubles under the sea. Picture: Phillip Faraone/Getty

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Our source said on Tuesday of Costner, “He’s said to be furious over the new Hollywood Reporter story about how he’s lost the plot … He’s very angry about it.”

Costner has allegedly been struggling to finance a series of over-the-top Western movies in his planned four-part “Horizon” franchise, and even mortgaged an unoccupied $60 million oceanfront property in Santa Barbara County to come up with the cash, according to THR.

Perhaps the underwater booty could help pay the bills on the films. (Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 flopped in theatres in 2024, and Horizon 2 has no current release date. Costner has reportedly been seeking funding on parts three and four.)

Costner has a history of exploring the sea: He has previously said he and an underwater archaeologist, Alex Mirabal — who the movie star met while exploring a Portuguese shipwreck in Mozambique — planned to team up and start an exploration business together, according to an online post.

In March the duo visited the Castillo de la Real Fuerza Museum in Havana, Cuba, to tour its nautical archives which include artefacts from shipwrecks at the end of the 19th century, reports said.

Kevin Costner’s time on the hit series Yellowstone was plagued by controversy. Picture: Stan.

The THR story also alleged that Costner, 70, and his Yellowstone co-star Wes Bentley got into a heated physical altercation that left another star, Kelly Reilly, in tears.

Costner, who starred as John Dutton in the Western series, was filming a tense scene with Bentley and Reilly, his on-screen children, on a soundstage in Utah at the time of the alleged altercation.

Sources also told the outlet that certain cast members got fed up with Costner’s “diva-like” demeanour on the show’s set.

Reps for Bentley confirmed the incident but simply called it “a work-related argument during an emotional and physically tough scene,” further saying the matter was “discussed and resolved.” Reps for Costner, whose character was killed off at the beginning of the fifth and last season, declined to comment.

Reps for Costner did not get back to Page Six when we reached out for comment.

Costner starred as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in the 2006 film, The Guardian, and also created the infamous aquatic flop, Waterworld.

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.