Kevin Costner clearly had a deep, profound love for Whitney Houston when working together on The Bodyguard. The history of their friendship is well documented on Costner's side of things. Now, he gets very sentimental and even a little existential on his 70th birthday.
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Recently, he posted a throwback photo on his Instagram story of himself and Houston on set of The Bodyguard. There, Kevin captions the post, "This photo reminds me of how lucky I am to be getting another birthday. We lost such a light when we lost Whitney."
Kevin Costner Sends Love to Whitney Houston Amidst His 70th Birthday
This is only a drop in the bucket in terms of expressing how much Kevin Costner cared for Whitney Houston. You can tell that she meant a lot to him just by the fact that he delivered a 17-minute eulogy at her funeral. During an episode of the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard, Costner explains how he wouldn't compromise on a single minute of it despite some complaints. "I had been working on this speech... and I tried to compile everything I wanted to do and finally crafted this speech. Somebody said, 'CNN's here, they wouldn't mind if your remarks were kept shorter because they're going to have commercials.' And I said, 'They can get over that. They can play the commercial while I'm talking, I don't care,'" Kevin recalls.
Costner adds that he was initially going to keep quiet out of respect and silently grieve the loss with Whitney's family. However, iconic singer Dionne Warwick insisted that he give his heartfelt words at the event. He admits that the pressure frightened him a little bit. "I could feel the weight on her, now it's shifted to me," Kevin continues. "What am I going to say about this little girl? [I] went back to that church in Newark and it was filled. It was electric. There were two bands playing, the church was alive. It was like, boom!"
