Kevin Costner He appeared on Monday's episode of Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert and talked about his first encounter with cocaine early in his career.
The actor began explaining that this whole experience happened while he was a stage manager at the Lowry Studios in Los Angeles in the 1980s, when he was still hoping for his big break as an actor.
Kevin Costner didn't know what to do with his life
“They came in like rock stars.” Costner “They spent three weeks wiring, then they built the set,” he recalls. “Whenever they needed something, I got it.”
After the job was done, the workers decided to give him a strange reward for his efforts.
“At one point they took me back to the grip room and said, 'Here it is,' and they gave me some cocaine and said, 'Thank you for everything you've done for us,'” he added.
Savings to buy a house
The actor then added that luckily he didn't like the drug.
“So you do it and nothing happens, and then you do it a second time and a third time,” Costner said.
“And finally I said to them, 'Hey, look, how much is this?' And he said, 'It's like $20.' And I said, 'Can I just say something?' And he said, 'Yeah, sure, dude, you know what?'
Instead of continuing to participate, he jokingly requested a more traditional form of payment, joking, “So I said, 'Look, I'm trying to buy my first house,' and I said, 'If you think what I'm doing is cool, I'll give you 20 bucks. I'll take 20 bucks,' and I just walked out of the club.”
“I didn't want to do this and I felt excluded. In a way it was fortunate for me that I didn't like cocaine. There was nothing there for me.”
