The Hollywood star Kevin Costner is opening up about the major Christmas purchase he made after he first achieved success as an actor. Indeed, this purchase brought his hardworking father to tears.
Costner’s Christmas Purchase
Costner, 70, is currently promoting his upcoming special Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas. During an interview with Fox News, he revealed the first major Christmas purchase that he made after he made it big in Hollywood.
“I got a truck for my father and I didn’t let him know what it was,” Costner recalled. “I gave him some clues. Go to here, go to there. We never really do that… So he was like, ‘Why am I getting these go over to here?'”
Costner went on to say that the whole family was then watching him as he continued to follow instructions. It finally all came together when he read the last clue, which read, “It’s in the garage and the trip will be over.”
Costner added that when his father opened the box with the last clue in it, he “started playing the music from Silverado,” since he had bought him a Silverado truck. Once his dad figured out what was happening, he was completely overcome with emotion.
“He came from out of the Dust Bowl. He watched his parents lose everything in Oklahoma,” Costner explained. “And he was trying to make sense of the music, of the keys that looked like keys to a car that was a Silverado. And then it dawned on him, and he fell out of his seat, and he wept. He wept that he could have a present like that. That his son would buy him a truck. So there’s the moment.”
Costner’s Love For Christmas
Costner also said that when he was a child, he couldn’t wait for Christmas and would “start counting three weeks out every night.” Now that he’s an adult, he sees his children have that same excitement.
These days, Costner sees Christmas as being a giving and “inclusive moment.”
“Live with humility. If you want to look up humility, look it up,” he stated. “You know, live with kindness. I think we know what that means. I think those words are self-evident about how we can purport ourselves. It’s like, you know, if you’re fine, it’s the next person you know, it’s the next person you love. Are they fine at this time of year? Let’s bring them in.”
Costner’s Christmas Special
Costner’s Christmas special airs tomorrow night on ABC. When asked why he made this special, Costner replied that he “wanted to just try to get below the surface” when it comes to the story of the Nativity.
“There’s this tradition that’s strong in us, but where did it come from?” he said. “I think the one area that we really wanted to deal with is that we were talking about a young girl and a young boy and pregnant teenagers. And that kind of informs so much.”
Costner proceeded to argue that “religion is a really easy thing to attack” and the best he could do is “invite everybody in the room, and then you tell the story you want to tell.”
“If you’re a believer, and you have this faith, you can be mauled by somebody that goes, ‘OK, well then explain this, explain that,’” he said. “Religion is a very tough thing. It’s highly personal. So I invited them in to come. It’s a friendly invitation to a really rough story. And then something that just spread over thousands of years. It’s a story that endures.”
“There is a truth to it. And we wanted to get as close to the truth as we could being mortal ourselves,” Costner concluded. “So whenever you take it on, yeah, you have to resist being an authority. But I was comfortable inviting everybody in the room. You can walk away from it, but it has endured.”
We applaud Costner for continuing to use his platform to spread the word of God. If you love Costner as much as we do, be sure to check out Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas on ABC on Tuesday, December 9. You won’t be disappointed!