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Kevin Costner Opens up about his Christian faith after telling ABC TV special Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas.
during an interview desert newsPublished on Monday, December 8 Costner, 70, said it was “appropriate” for him to narrate the two-hour TV special given his devout faith.
“I’ve been involved in all kinds of stories, but given my history with the church, being able to tell the story of the birth of Christ seemed right to me,” Costner said. “I grew up in the church. I may not have proclaimed it to the world, but anyone who knows me knows it. It’s been a part of my life — the religion has spread around the world.”
The outlet said Costner’s “first performance” was as a four-year-old in his church’s annual nativity play, in which he played a shepherd and uttered the line: “Listen.”
MICHAEL TRAN/AFP Photo: Getty Images Kevin Costner paid tribute to his younger self as he reflected on his 69th birthday. “Today celebrate another year and take a moment to honor this kid who had big dreams,” Costner, 69, wrote on Instagram on Thursday, January 18.
in a trailer In a special airing on ABC on Tuesday, December 9, Costner asked viewers to relive the first Christmas with him. “They say Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s a chance for families to come together and celebrate the amazing story of the newborn King,” Costner tells the camera while sitting in the director’s chair. “Whether you’re a believer or just curious about the tradition, go back with me, Kevin Costner, and learn the story of the first Christmas like you’ve never seen it before.”
expand his faith, yellowstone park The star told the outlet that he believes the story of Jesus Christ is “very special.”
He added, “You choose to believe. I choose to believe — that doesn’t mean I know how to defend it when people attack me from different directions.”
Good and evil coexist. Kevin Costner has won critical acclaim as both an actor and a director, but he’s also faced his fair share of personal difficulties. In July 1995, the “Postman” star opened up about his 1994 divorce from Cindy Silva, which ended 16 years of marriage, in an interview with The Seattle Times. exist(…)
The outlet noted that as Costner learned more about the ancient text through the narrator’s character, he gained “a richer, deeper perspective on the story.”
Costner said, “Imagine (Mary) was unmarried and she got pregnant. There’s a level of shame that comes with that. There’s a boy your age. Now, there’s also this deep-rooted fear because there’s always a promise that this person is going to come and it’s going to change the world, and as a young girl you’re in some way (part of) the whole thing, that must be overwhelming for them.”
He added that Christmas is a time to remember what the holiday means to so many people around the world. “There’s a lot of red and a lot of green in a lot of things and a lot of lights…and sometimes we forget the story a little bit.”
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Costner recently spoke Only arrive US Weekly About the importance of storytelling on a universal level. “I think storytelling can be healing,” he told us November 12th. “It can be very informative. It can remind us of who we want to be.”
He continued at the time, “A lot of times you see great heroism on screen and sometimes even the tiniest bit of heroism. When we see it, we recognize it and we think to ourselves, I need to be like that. We know what the opposite is. But sometimes we see things in movies that we wish we could say we still can.”
