‘Field of Dreams’ star Gaby Hoffmann shades on-screen dad Kevin Costner
If you build it, he will come.
“Field of Dreams” star Gaby Hoffmann, 42, who was a child actress when the 1989 modern classic sports flick came out, didn’t have kind words about her on-screen dad, Kevin Costner, 69.
In an interview with Business Insider published Thursday, Hoffmann, who’s also known for “Transparent,” said there was a lot of “paternal energy” on that set, but, she noted, “I didn’t feel paternal energy from Kevin Costner. We’ll leave it at that.”
The movie was based on the 1982 novel “Shoeless Joe” by W. P. Kinsella. The late Ray Liotta starred as Shoeless Joe Jackson. Costner co-starred as farmer Ray Kinsella, who builds a baseball field that attracts ghosts who play baseball.
Hoffmann played Ray’s daughter. She was 6 at the time.
Unlike Costner, Hoffmann had a lot of praise for Liotta, who died at 67 in 2022 of pulmonary edema and acute heart failure.
“I just absolutely loved Ray. I was convinced he was in love with me, too, which, of course, he wasn’t, but he was just such a sweetheart,” she said. “I didn’t have a dad growing up, and there were just so many wonderful men on that set.”
She continued, “Ray Liotta and, actually, all the baseball players, I would sit around and play cards with them and play catch with them,” Hoffman continued. “I sort of jokingly said I had a big crush on him, but I think I was really drawn to a kind of fatherly, protective energy that he had in spades. What a beautiful actor he was, too.”
Although Hoffmann declared Costner lacked “paternal energy,” he has seven kids.
He has Annie, 40, Lily, 37, and Joe, 36, with ex-wife Cindy Silva. He has a son, Liam, 26, with Bridget Rooney. And his three youngest children — Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 13 — are with ex-wife Christine Baumgartner, whom he divorced in February after a messy split.
On-screen, Costner is also “paternal” in his most recent role, as patriarch John Dutton on the hit ranch drama “Yellowstone.” John is the father to adult children, Kayce (Luke Grimes), Jamie (Wes Bentley) and Beth (Kelly Reilly), plus his son-in-law and Beth’s husband, Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser).
Costner, whose epic Western movie “Horizon” has gotten slammed by critics, has started speaking out about the behind-the-scenes drama on “Yellowstone.”
The “Waterworld” star told GQ about the show’s filming schedule, “We very rarely started when we said we would and we didn’t finish when we said we would.
“And I was OK with that. I really was. I was OK with it, but it wasn’t a trend that could continue for me.”
He felt like he was missing out on other opportunities to work and said he couldn’t set a schedule for “Horizon,” which he stars in, directed and co-wrote.
The “Dances With Wolves” star and director said he was still willing to work with “Yellowstone” to find solutions, but “the scripts never came. They still haven’t shot it. As far as I know. The scripts never came. And so then at one point they said to me that we don’t have an ending or anything.”