Legends of the Old West - Change Agents with Andy Stumpf: Kevin Costner

Episode Date: June 21, 2024

On Change Agents, find out what it takes to solve some of the world's seemingly impossible problems. In each episode, SEAL Team 6 veteran and "Cleared Hot" podcast host Andy Stumpf interviews a new "agent of change" who is enacting real change to understand the scope of their work, how it can be replicated, and the unimaginable stakes of their everyday lives.  Today’s guest is Academy Award winning filmmaker, Kevin Costner.  Costner co-wrote, directed, and stars in the new film Horizon: An American Saga. In this special episode of Change Agents, he and Andy Stumpf discuss why he invested so much personally into the project, his career, his philosophy on storytelling and more.  HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA CHAPTER ONE hits theaters June 28th, and CHAPTER TWO in theaters August 16th.  Join the Frontier Pass at http://Fandango.com for exclusive content, and grab tickets for both Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 now. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Legends family, I want to introduce you to a podcast with a new episode that I know you're going to be interested in. The show is called Change Agents, and in this preview, you'll hear a slice of an interview with the one and only Kevin Costner about his epic new Western film, Horizon, an American saga. On Change Agents, find out what it takes to solve some of the world's seemingly impossible problems. In each episode, SEAL Team 6 veteran and cleared-hot podcast host Andy Stumpf interviews a new agent of change to understand the scope of their work, how it can be replicated, and the unimaginable stakes of their everyday lives. The latest episode, which is out right now, features Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Costner. Costner co-wrote, directed, and stars in the new film Horizon and American Saga.

In this special episode of Change Agents, he and Andy Stumpf discuss why he invested so much personally in the project, his career, his philosophy on storytelling, and more. Follow Change Agents on your favorite podcast player. There were some dark moments. Holy shit. I thought I was a relatively tough individual until that. We ought to probably have dinner sometime.

But if you ask me what I'm most proud of is that I got control of my own life, that I would decide my fate. And there comes a moment which is quintessential to the West. He's not gonna get out of it. There is no law. There's no sheriff to stop this. There's nobody to step in. He's gonna have to negotiate this moment by himself. And I'm telling you in the architecture of movies, that's the place to work an audience too. It exceeds any difficulty and pain that I ever experienced professionally. I know what it's like to have to do something in a tough situation.

I don't have to make something important, but what I have to try to do is make something you'll never forget.