Kevin Costner looked out for his Horizon: An American Saga costar Abbey Lee ahead of their intimate scene.
“Kevin was very sensitive about that,” Lee, 37, told People in an interview published on Sunday, June 30. “He made sure that I was really comfortable and we had a long talk about it beforehand.”
Lee recalled Costner, 69, informing her of how the scene “would be shot, that there wouldn’t be any nudity, that there would be nothing graphic.”
“You have to talk about the details of it so you understand what’s going on so everyone feels safe and comfortable,” she told the outlet. “And we obviously had those conversations.”
While Costner and Lee felt safe with one another, she noted that they also had to feel “comfortable with the crew that needs to be in the room and the ones who don’t, aren’t there.”
“But yes, there’s always an element of discomfort [with sex scenes],” she said. “They’re always a bit weird, but as long as you can trust the people around you … it’s just weird because there’s people standing in a room while you’re doing this fake, intimate thing. It’s just strange.”
In Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1, which hit theaters on Friday, June 28, Lee portrays Marigold, a love interest of Hayes Ellison (Costner).
Per the film’s synopsis, Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 “explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won — and lost — through the blood, sweat and tears of many.”
Costner directed, produced and stars in the film. Aside from Costner and Lee, the star-studded cast of Horizon also includes Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Michael Rooker, Jamie Campbell Bower, Ella Hunt, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jena Malone, Jamie Campbell Bower and Luke Wilson. Costner’s son Hayes, whom he shares with ex-wife Christine Baumgartner, also has a minor role.
“I have not shoved my children into the business,” Costner said during an appearance on Today earlier this month. “I realize there’s so many young actors that would just kill to be in this movie and I don’t want to take those parts away from them just ’cause I can place my own children in. But in this instance, it was a smaller part. I selfishly wanted him with me for the week, two weeks he was with me.”
Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 is in theaters now. Chapter 2 will be released on August 16.
