Actor Kevin Costner recently revealed that he refused to allow his 17-minute eulogy at the televised funeral of beloved singer Whitney Houston to be shortened to fit CNN commercial breaks.
Yellowstone stars Dax Shepard Armchair Expert On the podcast, he said he wrote a 17-minute eulogy in honor of Whitney Houston for her funeral in 2012 (the two had been friends since working together on the 1992 hit “I Am Your Lover”). body guard) but was advised that it should be cut for television.
“I was working on this speech… and trying to put together everything I wanted to do, and finally I came up with this speech,” Costner said. “Someone said, ‘CNN is here. They’re going to run commercials, so it doesn’t matter if you’re short.’ And I said, ‘They don’t care. They can just run commercials while I’m talking. I don’t care.'”
Costner said he wrote the eulogy with encouragement from Dionne Warwick. variety.
“I felt her weight and now it’s shifted to me,” Costner said. “What can I say about this little girl? [I] We got back to the church in Newark and it was packed. It was exciting. There were two bands playing and the church was buzzing. It was like BOOM!”
Houston died of accidental drowning in 2012 at the age of 48.
2022, Costner He spoke about his experience Shooting body guardIn “The Great Gatsby,” he played a U.S. Secret Service agent hired to protect Houston from a mysterious stalker. The film was a huge hit, grossing $411 million worldwide, thanks in part to Houston’s hit single “I’ll Always Love You.”
“We’ll never forget when that song was born. [Houston] “She sang the opening line a cappella and musically the world was never the same as it was before. We’ll never forget that moment she was in that movie. I think that’s what happens when a movie is at its best,” he said at the time.
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