Field of Dreams star Gaby Hoffmann’s shady remark about former co-star Kevin Costner: ‘Not paternal’

Gaby Hoffmann starred in one of the most iconic films of the 90s with Costner, but it appears the experience wasn’t as she’d hoped.

Gaby and Kevin starred in Field of Dreams. Picture: Getty.

If you build it, he will come.

Field of Dreams star Gaby Hoffmann, 42, who was a child actress when the 1989 modern classic sports flick came out, didn’t have kind words about her on-screen dad, Kevin Costner, 69.

Kevin Costner wasn’t “paternal” on the set of Field of Dreams, claims his co-star. Photo: Zoulerah NORDDINE / AFP.

In an interview with Business Insider published Thursday, Hoffmann, also known for Transparent, said there was a lot of “paternal energy” on that set, but she noted, “I didn’t feel paternal energy from Kevin Costner. We’ll leave it at that.”

The movie was based on the 1982 novel “Shoeless Joe” by W. P. Kinsella. The late Ray Liotta starred as Shoeless Joe Jackson. Costner co-starred as the farmer Ray Kinsella, who builds a baseball field that attracts ghosts who play baseball. Hoffmann played Ray’s daughter. She was 6 at the time.

Unlike Costner, Hoffmann had a lot of praise for Liotta, who died at 67 in 2022 of pulmonary oedema and acute heart failure.

“I just absolutely loved Ray. I was convinced he was in love with me, too, which, of course, he wasn’t, but he was just such a sweetheart,” she said. “I didn’t have a dad growing up, and there were just so many wonderful men on that set.”

She continued, “Ray Liotta and, actually, all the baseball players, I would sit around and play cards with them and play catch with them,” Hoffman continued. “I sort of jokingly said I had a big crush on him, but I think I was really drawn to a kind of fatherly, protective energy that he had in spades. What a beautiful actor he was, too.”

Hoffmann praised her co-stars, but neglected to give Costner the same kind of praise. Photo: Monica Schipper/Getty Images.

Although Hoffmann deemed Costner to not have “paternal energy,” he has seven kids.

He has three children — Annie, 40, Lily, 37, and Joe, 36 — with ex-wife Cindy Silva. He has a son, Liam, 26, with Bridget Rooney.

He has three younger children — Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 13 — with ex-wife Christine Baumgartner, whom he divorced in February after a messy split.

On-screen, Costner is also “paternal” in his most recent role, as patriarch John Dutton on the hit ranch drama Yellowstone. John is the father to adult children Kayce (Luke Grimes), Jamie (Wes Bentley) and Beth (Kelly Reilly), plus his son-in-law and Beth’s husband, Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser).

Costner, whose epic western movie Horizon has gotten slammed by critics, has started speaking out about the behind-the-scenes drama on Yellowstone.

The “Waterworld” star told GQ about the show’s filming schedule, “We very rarely started when we said we would, and we didn’t finish when we said we would.

“And I was OK with that. I really was. I was OK with it, but it wasn’t a trend that could continue for me.”

He felt like he was missing out on other opportunities to work and said he couldn’t set a schedule for Horizon, which he stars in, directed and co-wrote.

The Dances With Wolves star and director said he was still willing to work with Yellowstone to find solutions, but “the scripts never came. They still haven’t shot it. As far as I know. The scripts never came. And so then at one point they said to me that we don’t have an ending or anything.”

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