{"id":1655,"date":"2026-02-08T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:11:33","slug":"kevin-costner-loses-bid-to-throw-out-horizon-2-stunt-performers-harassment-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner Loses Bid to Throw Out \u2018Horizon 2\u2019 Stunt Performer\u2019s Harassment Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"64\" data-end=\"589\">Kevin Costner lost a court motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment over an alleged unscripted rape scene during filming of <em data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"220\">Horizon 2<\/em>. Stunt double Devyn LaBella claims she was forced into the scene without warning and without an intimacy coordinator, violating union rules. Costner denied the allegations and tried to dismiss the case under California\u2019s anti-SLAPP law, but the judge ruled the claims have enough merit to proceed. One legal claim was dismissed, but most of the lawsuit remains active.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"959\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Separately, Costner\u2019s career has faced growing turmoil, including conflicts on the set of <em data-start=\"681\" data-end=\"694\">Yellowstone<\/em>, financial struggles with his self-funded <em data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"746\">Horizon<\/em> film series, and declining box office success. Despite legal battles and production setbacks, Costner continues seeking financing to complete his ambitious four-part Western saga, refusing to abandon the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kevin Costner lost a court motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment over an alleged unscripted rape scene during filming of Horizon <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1655\" title=\"Kevin Costner Loses Bid to Throw Out \u2018Horizon 2\u2019 Stunt Performer\u2019s Harassment Suit\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}