Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Costner shared recently that church and faith have always been a part of his life.
Costner’s comments came during an interview for his upcoming film “Horizon: An American Saga.” The film is scheduled to be released on June 28.
Costner not only stars in the film but also co-wrote the screenplay and directed it. “Horizon: An American Saga” is a four-part film that Costner has been working on since the 1980s. It tells the story of the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West.
While discussing his reasoning for including Scripture throughout the film, Costner told The Christian Post’s Leah MarieAnn Klett that “faith is what guided people out there to the unknown.”
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“They just leaned on it,” he said. “There was this promise but, you know, the promise was not enough. You had to go on faith, and people brought their religion with them [as they headed out] west.”
Costner explained that growing up going to church impacted him deeply. “I grew up a Baptist, and church has always been a part of my life, my grandmother, the whole thing, so I don’t mind it bleeding into a movie,” he said.
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“I don’t force it in,” Costner told Klett.
“But when I think about why people went west, when they said goodbye to people back east—they never saw them again—there was some kind of trust that people needed to lean on,” he continued, “because they were often times in situations where they didn’t even know what they were doing.”
