Kevin Costner is looking back at the emotional moment he shared with five of his kids at the Cannes Film Festival last month. In a new interview on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman's Armchair Expert podcast , the 69-year-old actor opened up about his kids -- Annie, 40, and Lily, 37, whom he shares with his first wife, Cindy Silva, as well as Cayden, 17, Grace, 13, and Hayes, 15, whom he shares with his recent ex-wife, Christine Baumgartner -- seeing him get emotional inside the screening of his film, Horizon: An American Saga . Hayes was in attendance as he stars in the film alongside his father.
Missing from the affair were the star's other children, Joe, 36, (whom he shares with Silva) and Liam, 26 (whom he shares with Bridget Rooney). "I got emotional and my children were there," Costner says. "I had five of my children, two of my boys were in tuxes and my three little girls were there all dressed up and they were watching too.
And they got a little startled by it, my son had not ever seen me be that emotional." Costner, who is the writer, director and producer of the film, was greeted with an 11-minute standing ovation inside of the screening. The Bodyguard star recalls his eyes being "filled" as the 2,500 people in the audience celebrated the film that has been in the works for three decades.
"There was a hesitation," he tells Shepard about embracing his emotions. "I was holding back because here's the camera and I could see this 100-foot screen behind him and that's me and.