He had been acting in movies for six years when he made it big, at the age of 32, in 1987. And, finally - the vital statistic - the first weekend gross in the US: $21m. Number of people with confidence in Kevin Reynolds, Costner's choice of director: 0 (including Costner). Years of happy Costner marriage hitherto: 16. Number of marriages broken up by the shoot: "at least" eight (including Costner's own). Distance under the sea, after it sank: 160ft. Number of welders, carpenters and mechanics working on the main set: 300. Cost of Costner's villa per night: $2,200. Overall cost: $172m (pounds 107.8m, a record).
The media are not interested in the facts. It has turned gold into crap.Īlready Waterworld has become a movie-making myth. The movie itself, though, has pulled off a still more remarkable chemistry experiment - a kind of reverse alchemy. Pipes and filters turn the liquid into water. Costner urinates into a Heath Robinson-style contraption. The movie starts with a sequence as insalubrious as the publicity that has surrounded the film. Costner's hugely expensive new film, Waterworld, is like both nightmares combined: the sinking of a cherished project, followed by a cavalry charge of criticism. "One was that I was on the Titanic, the other was that I was at Custer's Last Stand - I know that's strange, but it's true." Not so strange now: more like pres-cient. "I'VE had two recurrent nightmares in my life," Kevin Costner revealed in 1991.
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