Inside Kevin Costner's Tense Feud With Director Kevin Reynolds

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By 1995, Kevin Costner and Kevin Reynolds had worked together on three projects: "Fandango," "Dances With Wolves," and "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves." They had a great working relationship, and decided to collab on the bleak, dystopian, underwater epic "Waterworld." Set in the future when climate change has caused rising tides to completely flood the world, it's easy to imagine why a movie of this magnitude might be jussssst a bit pricey. Tempers flared on set, and according to the two Kevins, they came to verbal blows.

In a 2008 in-depth interview with The Sunday Times, Reynolds said that he couldn't stand Costner's meddling in the directorial process and overstepping his professional boundaries. So much so, apparently, that Reynolds abandoned the project before it was finished, walking off the set, declaring, "Now Kevin gets to work with his favorite actor and director." Ouch.

"He asserted himself," Reynolds continued. "We had discussions, then arguments, and then a falling out. It's not something I want to go into in detail." Reynolds was still fuming about the confrontation at the "Waterworld" premiere in 1995, telling Entertainment Weekly, "In the future Costner should only appear in pictures he directs himself." Dang. Costner is going to need some aloe for that burn.