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Kevin Costner Admits He Used “That Word” When Talking About Black People

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Costner%20and%20Steve%20Harvey?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1422545913922The Steve Harvey Show(CHICAGO) — In Kevin Costner’s new film, Black or White, he portrays a wealthy white man who suddenly has to raise his mixed-race granddaughter by himself after his wife dies. Elliot subsequently becomes involved in a somewhat-racially-charged custody battle with the child’s other grandmother, played by fellow Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer.

It’s a racially-charged film, which Costner said he had to finance himself to get made. He said he had to bring this story to the big screen because of how he grew up.

“I was raised around a level of racism, not of people who hated, but people who would use the word callously and not really think that they were — jokes that would start with that,” he admits on Friday’s The Steve Harvey Show, referring to the so-called N-word. “I used that word. I said that word.”

“And there was a point in time when I knew that word wasn’t right, when I finally traveled,” Costner continues. “But the truth is, we hope we get better than our parents. …My children don’t know about it at all.”

Anthony Mackie also stars in Black or White, which hits theaters Friday.


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