Kevin Costner has respected Sarah Ferguson , the Duchess of York, for decades. Why? Because of what happened when she put him in touch with Princess Diana about starring in a Bodyguard sequel. Ahead, what the “cool” now-64-year-old British royal did that impressed Costner.
Plus, how the Yellowstone alum found himself talking to Prince William about Diana years after her death. Kevin respects Sarah Ferguson because she ‘never inserted herself’ into his ‘Bodyguard’ sequel conversation with Diana In a June 2024 People interview, Costner reflected on The Bodyguard , his hit 1992 movie, discussing what he wanted to do after the original, which starred him and Whitney Houston . The now-69-year-old wanted to cast Diana as the female lead.
There to connect him to the British royal was her sister-in-law. “Sarah was the one that set this up,” Costner said. “Sarah was very cool, the duchess, when she could have been, like, going, ‘Well, I’m a princess, too.
What about me?’” “She didn’t, she didn’t do that at all,” he recalled. “She was going, ‘No, I’m going to make this happen, Kev,’ and she did.” “I always respected her that she never inserted herself, and Diana and I began to talk,” Costner added.
Costner later had a ‘very sweet conversation’ with Prince William about Diana Long after discussing a potential Bodyguard sequel and Diana’s sudden death at the age of 36 in August 1998, Costner found himself in a room with the royal’s .
