On Monday, Kevin Costner shared a rare snap of himself posing with six of his seven children on a beach following the Thanksgiving holiday.
The 69-year-old Yellowstone alum beamed alongside his 38-year-old daughter Lily, 36-year-old son Joe, 14-year-old daughter Grace, 15-year-old son Hayes, 40-year-old daughter Annie, and 17-year-old son Cayden.
‘Hoping you guys had a wonderful Thanksgiving with the people you love most,’ Kevin wrote to his 1.8M Instagram followers.
‘At the top of my “grateful for” list are the many really, really special memories I’ve gotten to make with my kids this year. Here’s to a holiday season dedicated to making more.’
Missing from the family photo was Costner’s elusive 28-year-old son Liam Costner he welcomed in 1996 during a brief relationship with Bridget Rooney.
The two-time Oscar winner welcomed his three eldest children during his 16-year marriage to ex-wife #1 Cindy Costner, which ended in 1994.
Kevin fathered his three youngest children during his 18-year marriage to ex-wife #2 Christine Baumgartner, and she receives $63K/month in child support per their divorce docs finalized February 20.
Sharon Stone – whom Costner ‘canoodled’ at the Governors Awards on November 17 – famously commented ‘My ex [Phil Bronstein] thought the same’ on an Instagram post about his contentious divorce battle last year.
Meanwhile, Yellowstone creators Taylor Sheridan and John Linson arranged for the Emmy winner’s character – Montana Governor John Dutton III – to be murdered by hitman Grant Horton (Matt Gerald) hired by Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) in the November 10th episode.
Kevin could not continue working on the hit Paramount+ western due to scheduling conflicts with his own troubled four-part western, Horizon: An American Saga.
Costner cast his son Hayes as the minor character Nathaniel Kittredge in Chapter 1, which received dismal reviews and only earned $38.2M at the global box office.
The Find Your Way singer is still filming and raising money for chapters three and four of Horizon after the first two chapters had a combined budget of $100M (including $38M of his own money).
Kevin had to mortgage a beachfront property in Santa Barbara in order to help fund his epic, set before and after the Civil War.
Chapter 2 – set to drop next year – will feature Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, Jena Malone, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Thomas Haden Church, and Jamie Campbell Bower.
Costner cast his son Joe in a mystery role in Chapter 3 after previously casting him in small roles in his films Tin Cup (1996) and The Postman (1997).
