SPOILER ALERT: This post contains critical plot details of Yellowstone Season 5B. Kevin Costner is reacting to his character John Dutton’s fate following the Yellowstone Season 5B premiere on Paramount Network . The actor and director has been written out of the family saga after he exited the series due to scheduling conflicts with his film Horizon: An American Saga .

Costner’s John Dutton was killed off during the premiere of the second half of Season 5, and in a new interview, he shares his opinion. “I didn’t see it. I heard it’s a suicide, so that doesn’t make me want to rush to go see it,” Costner said on The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM.

When Smerconish noted that John Dutton didn’t seem like a “suicide kind of guy,” Costner said, “Well, they’re pretty smart people. Maybe it’s a red herring. Who knows? They’re very good.

And they’ll figure that out.” During the interview, Costner reiterated that he didn’t quit Yellowstone due to scheduling that didn’t give him time to continue on the series. “I didn’t really have to leave anything behind.

There were the gaps that were there. There was contractual things that would allow for both things to be done, but because both things were contractual, you had to make room for the other thing. There was room, but it was difficult for them to keep their schedule,” Costner said.

“It seemed to be, it was just too difficult for them to do it. There was the time there, what happened, y.