He was talking about Whitney Houston's funeral Kevin Costner In a new podcast. The actor was asked to shorten his eulogy, but ultimately farted based on the request, and how well it worked.
Kevin Costner was asked to shorten his eulogy at Whitney Houston's funeral
Costner and Houston became good friends on the set of More Than a Bodyguard. When the singer died unexpectedly in 2012, the actor was also asked to deliver a eulogy at her funeral, which ended up being his poignant 17-minute farewell script.
For Dax Shepard, that is The Armchair Expert Podcast He suggested to his host that he had asked him to shorten his eulogy.
– I've already been working on my speech, trying to gather everything I need and finally create my script. Then someone came up and said, “CNN is here, and they won't mind if your speech is shorter because they'll be showing commercials.”
Costner didn't want to hear about anything being cut from his speech because of CNN commercials.
– I said, “They can solve this problem. They can play the commercial while I talk, I don't care.”
It is not known how the issue was finally resolved at CNN, but his 17-minute eulogy is still available online today.
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