Yellowstone revealed John Dutton’s fate in Sunday night’s Season 5 Part 2 premiere, but Kevin Costner hasn’t seen the episode yet.
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“I’ll be perfectly honest. I didn’t know it was on last night,” Costner said in an interview with SiriusXM’s ‘The Michael Smerconish Program’ on Monday morning. “It’s a swear-to-God moment. I swear to God. I mean, I’ve seen commercials with my face all over them and I was like, ‘Damn, I’m not in that.’ I’m not in this season.” (SPOILER ALERT FOR THE TV SHOW) Kevin Costner, who left Taylor Sheridan’s Western drama after Season 1 Part 5, which premiered in November 2022, said he found out how his character was let go the morning after the episode aired.
“I haven’t seen it. I heard it was a suicide, so that doesn’t make me want to go see it,” Costner said. When Smerconish said Dutton “never struck me as the suicidal type,” Costner responded, “Well, they’re pretty smart people. Maybe it’s a red herring. Who knows? They’re very good. And they’ll figure it out.” Kevin Costner said there were “a couple of times early in the series where I talked about possible endings for myself,” that didn’t involve suicide. But he added that how the “Yellowstone” writers wrote Dutton out of the story is “their business.”
What Happens in the First Episode of the Second Part of Yellowstone Season 5
As for Dutton’s death, Costner was right that the suicide was a red herring. In the episode, John’s death is caused by Sarah (Dawn Olivieri), the mean fixer who sleeps with Jamie (Wes Bentley), John’s power-hungry son, who organized an assassination attempt on him through a shady but professional organization. Despite his protests that he would never commit suicide, the hitman’s contact says that it’s the easiest way to escape without being discovered, as they can stage a shooting scene and not have toxicologists or other medical examiners dig too deep during the autopsy.
Elsewhere in the interview with Smerconish, Kevin Costner reiterated that he hasn’t left Yellowstone. He insists that the show couldn’t circumvent his contractual agreements for Costner’s Horizon film franchise. “There were contractual agreements that allowed for both, but since both things were contractual, you had to make room for the other thing. There was room, but it was hard for them to meet the deadline. It felt like it was too hard for them to do it,” Costner said, adding, “I didn’t leave. I didn’t quit.”
Costner continued, “I had 300 people waiting for me, and I couldn’t help them anymore. I just couldn’t help them. But I didn’t quit the show… Everybody has to live up to what they say they’re going to do. And it doesn’t matter what industry you’re in.”
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