Kevin Costner 'never' thought he’d make it in Hollywood, had to see 'everything that somebody had turned down'
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Kevin Costner was wondering if his acting career would ever take off while working as a stage manager at Raleigh Station when he was in his 20s.
Lori Bashian is an entertainment production assistant for Fox News Digital.
"Once I got through the door, I kind of went pretty fast," he said on the podcast. "It wasn’t Tom Cruise sliding across the floor at 18. It was for me at 27, 28. I was a stage manager at Raleigh, working for $3.25 and Richard Gere and Mel Gibson and Nicolas Cage and Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn. At a certain point, [I thought] maybe I wasn’t going to get the part."
After a while, Costner explained he came to the realization that actors can only make so many movies in a year, and he "need[ed] to see everything that somebody had turned down."