''I'm sorry,'' says Reynolds in his softened Texas accent, containing his temper, ''but all good things don't flow from Kevin Costner. If he fought so hard for me, why did he stay in the editing room and jeopardize my DGA screening?''

Costner said there just wasn't time. That was his...

''Rationale?'' says Reynolds.

The director says his next project will be moving to Seattle with his wife and 2-year-old daughter. He's catching a plane later in the day. ''I'm going to take some time off,'' he says, thoughtfully. ''Next year I want to do a really small movie, more personal.''

Starring who?

''Starring nobody.''

At the end of his interview, Costner is still in a gentlemanly good mood when the waiter brings the bill. Costner boards his big white Chevrolet and heads back to work. He idles in traffic on a bridge that spans a small gully. A woman has parked on the side, so her little girl can get out and gaze over the guardrail at the water.

''I keep thinking that woman is going to toss that kid over,'' says Costner. He pulls the great white vehicle forward and thinks on this further. ''I'll have to jump in and save her.'' Now he's smiling again, and he laughs at himself. ''I hope the music's playing when I go.''

Additional reporting by Gregg Kilday, with Pat H. Broeske, Michael Szymanski, and Jeffrey Wells

Originally posted Jul 14, 1995 Published in issue #283 Jul 14, 1995 Order article reprints
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