Kevin Costner Asks Decide To Dismiss ‘Horizon’ Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Kevin Costner is combating again towards a sexual harassment lawsuit and has requested the decide to dismiss the case.

The lawsuit was filed by stunt performer Devyn LaBella, who alleges she was subjected to an unscripted and violent simulated rape scene on the set of “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2” with out correct consent, discover, or the presence of a compulsory intimacy coordinator.

Kevin Costner referred to as LaBella’s claims “completely false,” including that he discovered it to be “deeply disappointing” {that a} colleague would attempt to embarrass him and harm his popularity.

Costner is seeking to have a sexual harassment lawsuit filed towards him by a stunt performer on his Western film dismissed.

Devyn LaBella carried out as a stunt double for lead actress Ella Hunt however claimed in a authorized doc that she was made to carry out an unscripted rape scene with out discover on the set of the second installment again in Could 2023.

Nevertheless, Costner denied her claims as “completely false,” explaining in a brand new court docket doc obtained by TMZ that she was comfortable throughout the shoot and even despatched a textual content to a supervisor expressing her pleasure after wrapping up work on set.

“Thanks for these fantastic weeks! I so admire you! I realized a lot, and thanks once more. I am actually comfortable it labored out the way in which it did, too. Have a terrific remainder of the shoot, and sure, speak quickly!” LaBella purportedly wrote within the textual content.

In accordance with the grievance, LaBella’s contract, ruled by SAG-AFTRA, required 48 hours’ discover for any scenes involving simulated intercourse or nudity, and remains to be topic to the performer’s approval.

The paperwork said that Hunt’s contract required a “coordinator for all intimacy scenes,” however weeks into filming, and “with out incident,” LaBella was advised to face in for the actress throughout a “scripted, aggressive and intimate rape scene” on account of its “bodily nature.”

She claims the scene was an impromptu addition by Costner after the movie’s lead actress allegedly refused to carry out it, and that the occasion left her traumatized and experiencing “reminders of disgrace, humiliation, and full lack of management.”

Nevertheless, Costner, by way of his attorneys Marty Singer and T. Wayne Harman, has denied the allegations, disputing LaBella’s account of occasions, stating, “There was no anger or resentment, solely enthusiasm and gratitude” after the filming of the film.

The “Yellowstone” actor, in a declaration, insisted that there was no violent rape scene on his set as he went additional to share his model of occasions.

Costner claims that on the day in query, LaBella was capturing a scene with actor Roger Ivens in a lined wagon and that she was totally clothed in an ankle-length costume with bike shorts beneath as they lay subsequent to one another.

Ivens then pulled up the hem of her costume and swung his legs over her physique, which led to a state of affairs the place he totally lined her, however that was reportedly all that occurred. There was no nudity, rape, simulated intercourse, or bodily contact between LaBella and Ivens.

The actor went additional to say that whereas LaBella’s costume could have been pulled as much as her knees, the robe was at all times under her waist, and the pantaloons and petticoats have been by no means touched.

LaBella claimed that the incident tremendously affected her profession, and it left her with “everlasting trauma that she can be required to handle for years to return.”

In accordance with Individuals Journal, she started remedy in June 2023 to handle “signs” of her alleged expertise, comparable to “sleep disturbance, fears of intimacy,” and “anxiousness.”