Kevin Costner’s lawyer has already called the sexual harassment trial of Horizon II The interpreter of stuntman Devyn Labella as “Shakedown” and now, seeking to have the case reject, the winner of the Oscar himself apparently goes further.
In a statement filed on Monday at the Superior Court of the Superior, Costner insists that the allegations deposited in May of Labella suffering from a rape scene on the still unprecedented Western suite are a “daring lie”.
In fact, the first Yellowstone Star, who put a lot of his own fortune in the Horizon Series, says that the costume is intended for the attack on him personally.
“I believe that Devyn’s claims have been designed, thanks to the use of false declarations and sensational language, to harm my reputation,” said Costner in a dense and rich declaration (see above, below and the document itself) which is an attachment to a motion to the August 18 strike.
ActionWise, Costner and its lawyers from Lavely & Singer are looking for a September 18 audience in DTLA so that the case has chopped or at least obtained most of the anti-Slapp status.
A “double lead double for the series” the main actor Ella Hunt “, Labella filed his initial file against Costner and production on May 27, 2025 in LASC.
After a file at the end of 2024 with the California civil rights department, the member of SAG-AFTRA and pro-seasoned pro complaints in his LASC graphic complaint according to which “on May 2 (sic) 2, 2023, the claimant Devyn Labella, an interpreter of stuntman, was the victim of a violent uncriple and non-sealed and the scene of Kevin,” Light guild on the protocols on the set, the file of sexual harassment, sex discrimination and labella reprisals add: “The impact of this request for impromptu work on Ms. Labella was deep, not only by upsetting a career that Mrs. Labella spent years building, but leaving her with a permanent trauma that she will have to approach for years.”
In addition to unpertified damages, Labella wants the court to order that a intimacy coordinator is on the set of Costner’s “future” films. She also wants defendants, including Costner, “submit to anti-sexual harassment and training on anti-sexual violence provided by a renowned organization”.
It might note that the Celeste Chaney intimacy coordinator, on whom worked Horizon, Supported Labella and called the incident as a “unexpected and unforeseen violent rape scene” which “was unexpected on the actors and the professionals of the cascaders”.
In an exhibition included with the modified complaint of Labella of June 18, Chaney said that at the problem of not having a intimacy coordinator present for the scene, other problems were that he should have been a red flag that Hunt would have refused to participate and that Labella “is a professional of the Foundation, not a double body”. Chaney added that Labella “did not consent to the action which was directed once in place”; And “she did not have appropriate modesty clothes to ensure adequate coverage, security or protection.”
Costner and his team pay little Chaney’s POV in their deposits this week.
The opening with a gushing gratitude of Labella’s text to “his supervisor” just over a week after the filming of the alleged rape scene of May 23, 2023, a long memorandum accompanying the Monday request for strike goes directly for the male. “The reality, as supported by the testimony under the oath of a dozen veteran crew members respected with personal knowledge of the facts in question in this dispute, of the photographs in real time of the photo in question, and the own words of Labella at the time, is that the labella and the salar trial is just as fictitious as the film of the singer of Marty.
Costner’s declaration does not leave much to imagination either.
“Devyn’s claims against me are absolutely false, and it is deeply disappointing for me that a woman who worked on our production says that I or any other member of my production team would make one of our own uncomfortable, and even less from the” nightmare “that she invented,” said Costner.
“These allegations are so obviously false that I can only assume that the goal was to use this sensationalist language to embarrass me and damage me and the Horizon films on a continuous basis in order to obtain a massive and unjustified salary ”, the WME Jkf Alum adds. “Just as bad, having to read and respond to the allegations that I know how to be false involving the words” rape “and” aggression “was an absolute nightmare. The truth is important. This is why, even at the high cost of this trial (financial and personal), I will always speak to defend myself and my team against the false allegations. ”
Horizon: an American saga – Chapter 1The first film in the planned series of Costner was presented at first at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival but failed after its release last summer by Warner Bros. With only $ 38.7 million at the world box office.
Horizon He made his debut at the Venice Film Festival last year. However, a release date in August 2024 has been canceled and the film has not yet been released. According to this week’s Costner’s declaration, “we did not start the main photography on Horizon III.“”
Kevin Costner on horizon: an American saga – Chapter 1
Warner Bros. / courtesy Everett collection
