Kevin Costner is looking back at his emotional eulogy to his beloved “Bodyguard” co-star Whitney Houston 12 years later.
Appearing on the “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard” podcast, the 69-year-old recalled the pressure of properly paying tribute to Houston at her funeral days after her death on Feb. 11, 2012. “I eulogized her and I didn’t want to,” Costner explained. “When she passed away, there was a steady drumbeat to hear. You know, she was such a big personality that everybody was going on the air talking. And that was not my first instinct.
” While sitting in a row waiting his turn, Costner said someone approached him requesting that he shorten his speech, which turned out to be 17 minutes long. “Somebody said, ‘CNN’s here,’” he began, recalling their conversation. “‘They wouldn’t mind if your remarks were kept shorter because they’re going to have commercials.’ And I said, ‘They can get over that. They can play the commercial while I’m talking, I don’t care.’” TODAY.
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