Kevin Costner & Diane Lane Starred in 3 Movies Together, Including This Hidden Netflix Gem
The actors in fact starred together in a 2020 neo-Western thriller, but there are two more movies where you could see them sharing the screen. We’re breaking down Kevin Costner and Diane Lane’s numerous collaborations throughout the years.
Having risen to stardom back in the 1980s, the cinema and TV industry’s favorite Western lover Kevin Costner might have had his paths crossed with pretty much everyone famous out there.
The actor-director is currently developing his own Western franchise titled Horizon: An American Saga, but just several years back he worked on another filmmaker’s Western thriller which reunited Costner with Diane Lane, his co-star from other two movies.
Both Kevin Costner and Diane Lane Starred in 2020’s ‘Let Him Go’
- On Rotten Tomatoes, Let Him Go holds scores of 85% and 76% from critics and viewers
- On IMDb, the movie rates 6.7/10
Directed by Thomas Bezucha, Let Him Go stars Costner and Lane as a married couple of Margaret and George Blackledge whose past of a sheriff, well, doesn’t quite let him go when Margaret and George’s young grandson gets into the hands of clutches of a dangerous family that lives off the grid in the Dakotas.
As a result, the two have to leave their beloved Montana ranch to rescue their grandson while still reeling from their son’s untimely death.
Despite the movie itself getting less praise from the audiences, Costner and Lane’s unmatched chemistry on screen still got a mention.
“Loved this movie. Just finished it as I type this. The performances were amazing. The writing was excellent. I love how it feels like a western. How both Kevin Costner and Diane Lane played off each other was great, real chemistry. Didn't know Jeffrey Donovan was in it and that just makes it better. Definitely one of the best movies I have seen in the last year”, Redditor kirinmay commented in a thread.
Before ‘Let Him Go’, Costner and Lane Portrayed a Couple in Two More Movies
Several years prior to landing a leading role in Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone, Kevin Costner also had an attempt to prove his versatile acting talent in superhero movies like 2013’s Man of Steel and 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
There, the actor portrayed Jonathan Kent, Clark Kent aka Superman’s adoptive father; coincidentally, Diane Lane got to play Jonathan’s wife and Clark’s mother Martha.
“I think the thing you realize when you look at Diane and Kevin, in our decision to cast them so far, you sort of get a sense of how tonally we're looking at the movie, and what you realize is that those guys are serious actors, and we're taking this movie very seriously in terms of the tone of having those guys. You're talking about having a situation where whatever the action is or whatever the drama of the movie is, our first priority is to make sure it's rendered in the most realistic way we can get at”, the movies’ director Zack Snyder explained his casting choices in an interview with Gizmodo back then.
