All About Kevin Costner’s Youngest Son Hayes Costner

Fifteen-year-old Hayes Costner is getting a style of the highlight, following within the footsteps of his award-winning actor father, Kevin Costner. 

Hayes lately made his appearing debut working alongside his dad within the movie Horizon: An American Saga. Working together with his father and seasoned actors like Sienna Miller and Sam Worthington, Hayes’ expertise marks a memorable second in his new profession and relationship together with his Oscar-winning dad. 

“It felt like the best method that we might bond over one thing we each love and to create lasting recollections collectively,” Hayes advised PEOPLE in June 2024. “Working with my dad was an unforgettable second in time.”

The film, the primary in a four-part Western epic, is ready in pre- and post-Civil Struggle United States, specializing in the growth of the American West. Costner performs a personality named Hayes, his son’s namesake, whereas Hayes portrays Nathaniel Kittredge, son of Frances Kittredge, performed by Miller.

Horizon has been years within the making, with Costner directing, co-writing, producing and investing $38 million of his personal funds into the challenge. Hayes famous how significant it was to see all of it come collectively. 

“Seeing my dad’s emotional response, listening to and feeling the viewers applaud him, the standing ovation, taking all of it in … it was heartwarming to see everybody recognize the time and love he put into the movie,” he advised PEOPLE in June 2024 of witnessing the very heat reception his dad and the movie received on the Cannes Movie Pageant.

Right here’s every thing to find out about Kevin Costner’s son and costar, Hayes Costner.

Hayes is Costner’s youngest son

Hayes is the second of three kids Costner had together with his ex-wife Christine Baumgartner: Cayden and Grace. Costner additionally has three grownup kids together with his ex-wife Cindy Silva (Annie, Lily and Joe) and a son Liam with former actress Bridget Rooney.  

5 of Costner’s seven kids attended the premiere of Horizon in June 2024 — at which Costner shared his gratitude for the help. 

“For a studio [distributor Warner Bros.] to line up behind it to create this setting for us, to rejoice this film we labored so exhausting for and one I’ve dreamed about so lengthy, it is fairly gratifying to perceive my kids are someplace watching over me, which they at all times do — you may think about that feeling,” he stated. 

He was concerned in sports activities from a younger age 

From a younger age, Hayes was out on the sector together with his siblings, with Costner saying in an look on At this time in 2016 that he and then-wife Baumgartner have been within the automobile “continually” going to Little League video games. 

“We’re making an attempt to get the children on the identical workforce so we can’t need to go to 3 completely different practices,” Costner stated. “So poor little Hayes, who’s within the center, is having to play with 8 and 9-year-olds and he is like [7], and he can hack it. So there’s gonna be this level the place he is gonna go ‘Why was I at all times pressured into leagues?’ ”

As a excessive schooler, Hayes performs on the volleyball workforce and likes to surf and fish.

His title was impressed by the function Costner went on to play

It’s no coincidence that Hayes shares a reputation together with his father’s character in Horizon, Hayes Ellison. 

Born on Feb. 12, 2009, Costner revealed that the title of his youngest son was impressed by a cowboy character in a Western movie Costner was engaged on, on the time calling Hayes a “nice Western title.” 

Over a decade later, Costner divulged the importance of the namesake. 

“I began [Horizon] in 1988 and I couldn’t make it however I couldn’t fall out of affection with it,” Costner advised the Related Press in Might 2024. “And so at a sure level in my life, 15 years in the past, I simply named my son Hayes as a result of I simply couldn’t let go of it. After which hastily I put him within the film.”

Costner could possibly be “exhausting” on Hayes at occasions whereas filming Horizon

Costner did not at all times go simple on his son Hayes whereas directing him in Horizon: An American Saga. In an interview with PEOPLE in June 2024, Costner talked about how Miller as soon as remarked that he was “sort of exhausting on Hayes.”

“And I stated, ‘I do know. I want him to be actually good, and he is inexperienced and I’ll assist him all through,’ ” Costner advised PEOPLE. 

Nonetheless, Hayes stated his father was “at all times light” when giving suggestions and at all times defaulted again to “dad mode” on the finish of the day.  

Regardless of being new to appearing, Costner praised his son for his efficiency and remarked how he created some “magical” moments on the display screen of his personal. 

“I am actually pleased with his efficiency,” Costner added.

Horizon wasn’t Hayes’ first film premiere

In 2015, at simply 6 years outdated, Hayes joined his mom and siblings Grace and Cayden alongside Costner on the premiere of Disney’s McFarland USA.

Additionally, in 2019, 5 of the seven children joined Costner on the premiere of The Artwork of Racing within the Rain.

This time round, Hayes’ look in his dad’s movie ignited sentimentality from each the brand new actor and Costner. 

When requested on the purple carpet about working together with his father, Hayes underscored his enthusiasm for the challenge. 

“I beloved it,” Hayes advised Entry Hollywood on the premiere. “He simply taught me every thing and he was there directing by my facet and it was simply superb to observe him,” prompting his father to get visibly emotional, holding again tears and Costner saying, “it feels good.”