Before becoming an a-list actor, Kevin Costner played a dead person in which movie – Big Chill.
Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
On The Big Chill, Kevin Costner played a character who died by suicide and filmed various flashback scenes for the film.
When the movie hit theatres, however, Costner was noticeably missing from The Big Chill, featured only as a corpse with just seconds of screen time.
Reports say this is why Kevin Costner was cut from Big Chill – there was only one flashback scene filmed featuring Costner’s suicidal character Alex, which was cut as were other scenes, because it slowed down the pacing, & because speaking of the character without actually showing him, added an air of mystery & emotional power to the film.
There was a single flashback scene, which featured Costner, and Kasdan decided that the film worked better without it. It may have been for pacing reasons, or he may have felt the flashback took the audience out of the moment, or it’s possible he didn’t like the way the actors looked dressed as their ‘younger’ selves.
Before becoming an a-list actor, Kevin Costner played a dead person in which movie?
Kevin Costner was cast as Alex in Big Chill, but all scenes showing his face were cut. Big Chill was filmed in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Costner was a 28 year old unknown actor at the time when he got the role of Alex Marshall in The Big Chills whose suicide brings about the reunion of his college friends.
Alex, the suicide victim whose death reunites eight college friends (Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams).
Director Lawrence Kasdan, however, cut all of Costner’s scenes from the film.
The Big Chill was called The Big Chill, according to writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, because The Big Chill refers to the experience of cold adult reality after leaving the ‘warm embrace’ of true friendship during college.