Kevin Costner on Fatherhood and Elevating HIs 7 Kids

Kevin Costner is an actor, Oscar-winning director and musician, however when he is at residence together with his household, he is simply Dad.

The Yellowstone star, 67, and his spouse of 18 years, Christine, 48, have three youngsters collectively, sons Cayden, 15, and Hayes, 13, plus daughter Grace, 12. Costner additionally has 4 older youngsters from earlier relationships, daughters Annie and Lily, and sons Joe and Liam.

Costner, who explores the historical past and wildlife of Yellowstone Nationwide Park in honor of its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary in his new Fox Nation docuseries Yellowstone One-Fifty, streaming now on Fox Nation, says that fatherhood is one among his best joys.

“You have to get down on the bottom and play with them,” he says within the newest subject of PEOPLE. “And also you educate them to be impartial — and the unhappy half about that’s they change into that. I am like every other dad or mum: I am attempting to determine it out.”

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Costner provides that his teenage son Hayes has a small half in his upcoming four-part western epic Horizon.

“He is excellent,” says Costner. “However I form of did it on goal, so he might be hanging out with me. And the identical factor for Cayden, identical factor for Grace. ‘That is actually neat. You need to come be with me.'”

When Costner is not working, he says his days off are all about household.

“I work as a supplier. I am a father and I am a husband, however the world does not revolve round me,” he says. “After I’m not making a film, I am dwelling and on the freeway with my spouse, getting the youngsters to their stuff or I am ready for them to come back out of a celebration. I am simply twiddling my thumbs. Folks have a unsuitable thought about how my life works.”

For extra on Costner, decide up the most recent subject of PEOPLE on newsstands Friday.