Kevin Costner nearly didn't play Ray Kinsella in 'Field of Dreams,' as Robin Williams almost received the role in the American baseball fantasy drama.
Kevin Costner almost lost out on the opportunity to play one of his most important roles to date. The Oscar winner recently revealed Robin Williams was also in the running to star as Ray Kinsella in the classic sports fantasy flick, 'Field of Dreams.' 'A good story requires a good script for it to somehow leap off the page and become a movie,' Costner told GQ magazine in a sit-down chat.
The Academy Award-nominated film was released in 1989, and followed Ray, a farmer in Iowa, who hears voices and sees a vision to build a baseball field in his cornfield. Ghosts of baseball legends visit the field throughout the film. 'There was an interesting thing because Robin Williams, bless his heart, there was a moment when I asked the director, I said, ’You know, Robin Williams is a big star, as big as you ever wanna get,'' Costner recalled early in filming.
At the time, Williams had recently starred in 'Dead Poets Society' and was already rising through the ranks as a serious actor, thanks to starring roles on TV's 'Mork & Mindy' and in the film 'Good Morning, Vietnam.' Costner added, 'So when he picked me to do it, kind of over Robin Williams, because it seems like a natural for Robin Williams, and he said, ’I'm pretty sure that Robin Williams hears voices in the corn.
They might have said ‘voice,’ and I'm like pulling a piece of corn, I forget what happened, but it's like, gee, I had to act like I heard a voice, right? So, I did,' Costner said. Williams, a prolific comedian and voice actor, died by suicide on Aug. 11, 2014. He was 63. Costner decided to take the 'Field of Dreams' role after being 'moved personally' by the script.
When I read ‘Field of Dreams’ on a couch by myself, the first page was sweet. Somebody's talking to him in the corn,' the 'Yellowstone' star said. 'Okay, let's keep going, and it wound its way not to a gunfight or to a car chase or to a big fight. Its journey took you to a place where you look, and you saw your father, and it's Biblical for things that go unsaid between father and son, between mother and daughter, things we wish we would've said.
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