Kevin Costner accuses that a double in his last film is trying to destroy his reputation with a “dumb lie”

Kevin Costner unequivocally rejected the accusations made in a process filed by a stunt in his film “Horizon: An American Saga-Chapter 2, who claims to have been forced to play a” violent “scene of unwritten rape, without the necessary notification and without consent, reports The Guardian and Deadline.

In a legal statement filed on Monday at the Los Angeles Tribunal, Costner named the process for violating the contract, filed in more by the Cascader Devyn Labella, a “tired lie”. He accuses that the process is meant, “by using false statements and a sensationalist language”, to destroy his reputation.

The lawyers 'lawyers' lawyers have asked the judge to reject or modify the language used in the complaint against it by anti-Slapp laws, measures designed to protect against intimidation processes.

Labella, the double of the main actress Ella Hunt, claims that on May 2, 2023 Costner improvised a scene in which her character Juliette is raped, one day after Hunt and Labella had filmed a written scene in which another character rape Juliette.

Hunt refused to play the scene, and Labella was called on the set without knowing that Hunt had refused and had left.

What accusations are made to Kevin Costner in the Los Angeles trial

According to his complaint, Labella was not warned that a new, male actor was going to climb over her, immobilize her and raise her skirt violently. She claims that Costner told her to “stretch” before asking the actor “repeatedly interprets a violently simulated rape”, while Costner “tried different variants of rape”.

Labella argues that the scene has violated the contractual provisions negotiated by the SAG-AFTRA actors' union, which provide for the interpreters to receive a 48-hour notification and to consent to any scene involving nudity or simulated sex.

The sting also states that a Coordinator of intimacy was not present on the plateau, as provided by Hunt's contract, which also applies as a double.

It requires unspecified damages for the interruption of the career and “the permanent trauma that will have to deal with years”.

Costner is the financier of the film for which he was sued

Also, Labella wants the court to have a intimacy coordinator to be present on the plateau at all the future films of Costner and that the defendants will attend courses to prevent sexual harassment or sexual violence, organized by “a reputed institution”.

Costner has left an extremely well -paid role in the successful series Yellowstone to film Horizona soul project designed as an epic film in four parts.

He invested $ 38 million from his own money in the estimated budget at 100 million for the first two films, westerns placed in the late 1800s, directed and co-written by Costner with Jon Baird.

Chapter 1 It was launched in June 2024, but failed at Box Office, obtaining revenues of only $ 38.7 million. Chapter 2 He premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2024, but the general launch date in theaters has not yet been announced.