{"id":139083,"date":"2022-11-25T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kevin-costner-on-whitney-houston\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:04:18","slug":"kevin-costner-on-whitney-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kevin-costner-on-whitney-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner on Whitney Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whitney Houston was said to be \u201cdeclining in terms of her popularity\u201d when her name came up as a possible co-star\/romantic partner for Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard<\/em>, the hit drama that opened 30 years ago today, on Nov. 25, 1992.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn’t her ‘in’ moment,\u201d Costner told Yahoo Entertainment about the late pop icon during a 2014 Role Recall<\/em> interview (watch clip above). \u201cThat didn’t really matter to me. I just thought she was the perfect choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker also revealed that race was a factor that was dissuading parties involved from casting the pop star in the role of Rachel Marron, a music superstar who becomes romantically involved with her bodyguard (Costner’s Frank Farmer) while facing threats from a stalker.<\/p>\n

“Everybody alerted me to the fact that she was Black, which I knew,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It might have been easier two years earlier at her peak. But after that movie, she became, I think, one of the biggest stars in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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