Kevin Costner has weighed in on the death of John Dutton. The Oscar winner, 69, broke his silence after his “Yellowstone” character was killed off in the Season 5 Part 2 premiere that aired Sunday night.

Costner admits he had no idea when the episode containing his character's fate was going to air. After months of speculation about how Yellowstone would deal with Kevin Costner's absence, viewers finally got their answer on Sunday night.

Who better to talk about John Dutton’s fate than the man who played the Yellowstone patriarch, Kevin Costner? While speaking with Michael Smerconish on SiriusXM, Costner spoke about his character’s ending on Yellowstone,

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Yellowstone season 5, part 2. In Yellowstone’s explosive first episode of season 5B, fans finally got to see how Kevin Costner’s departure would be handled on the show after watching his real-life tensions with co-creator Taylor Sheridan play out over the summer last year.

This story contains major spoilers from the Yellowstone season 5B premiere.] Kevin Costner is weighing in on John Dutton being killed off in the first moments of the return of Yellowstone. The former star of the Paramount Network hit drama was on The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM when he was asked his reaction to showrunner Taylor Sheridan finishing off the Dutton family patriarch.

John Dutton's death on 'Yellowstone' has some fans furious, and others wondering why the writers decided to axe the show's central character.