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Costner, 69, shares plot details of canceled sequel The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday, June 18, confirming that a script featuring Diana was written around the time of the royal family’s death in August 1997. (The actor both starred in and produced the original 1992 film Whitney Houston,
Costner said the sequel would feature his former Secret Service agent Frank Farmer moving to Hong Kong to care for a prized race horse, where he comes under Diana’s influence.
“She’s on the plane, Princess Di is sitting in the front, everyone has to get off the plane,” he explained. “Di gets off the plane first, she goes to Hong Kong, because she’s going here [horse] And the race too.”
“Princess Di, I met her the next day at a party and I was looking at her like everybody else. And finally she came up to me and said, ‘I know who you are!’ And I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ She said, ‘I know you’re here to take care of me.’ And I said, ‘No, I’m not really doing that. I’m taking care of a horse,'” Costner continued. “In the story, she had broken away from the royal family.”
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Cindy Ord/Getty ImagesCostner said he was introduced to Diana by his former sister-in-law. sarah fergusonDuchess of York, 1990s onwards Bodyguard Diana’s husband had divorced her and they were separated. King Charles III,
“I said, ‘I’m going to do this bodyguard 2 And I think I can build it around you. Would you be interested?'” Costner said. “She says, ‘Yeah … my life is about to change.’ I thought I understood what she was saying: ‘I want to open up my life … I think I want to do this.'”
According to Costner, Diana had also planned to film a kissing scene between them.
“The second time we talked she said, ‘Will there be a kissing scene?’ I said, ‘Do you want there to be?’ She said, ‘Yeah,’ and I said, ‘Then we’ll do that,’” Costner explained, though he also added that Diana was not his main love interest in the film.
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After Diana’s death, Costner felt the film was no longer viable. He said, “I can’t replace Princess Di.” “Something like, if I couldn’t do it Bodyguard With Whitney, I don’t think I’d be able to do that with anybody.”
Costner also revealed how he clashed with the royal family when news leaked that he was working on the film a year after Diana’s death.
“The royal family got a little bit angry at me,” he said. “It was like, ‘No, this is not true.’ It got really ugly. I left it for a while. It just got uglier,” he said. “I called them up and said, ‘Stop. You need to stop because this is true.'”
In an interview People In the article published on Tuesday, June 18, Koestner said that Prince William Once found out Diana had a crush on him.
Costner said she had a “very sweet conversation with Prince William”, who said, “‘You know my mother was very fond of you?'”
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