Kevin Costner On Working With Rene Russo, Jennifer Aniston & ‘Timelessly Hot’ Susan Sarandon

Kevin Costner has shared the screen with a bevy of Hollywood’s A-list beauties during his four decades as an actor.

Access Hollywood caught up with the star at the Napa Valley Film Festival (where he was presented with the BVisionary Award), where he opened up about his past female co-stars, starting with Susan Sarandon.

“She’s a woman and she is every inch that,” Kevin told Access’ Billy Bush of his “Bull Durham” leading lady. “And she is graceful about it… she’s got it, man… She’s timelessly hot and she’s special. Sue is special.”

Kevin said he doesn’t talk to Susan often, but has no doubt that she’d lend a listening ear and give sage advice if he ever needed it.

“I don’t call Sue, but if I really thought I needed something fixed or something felt broken or I was confused about something, I have no doubt that she would take that call and number two that she would have a real answer for it,” he said. “She’s very smart and she’s timeless to me.”

Here’s what Kevin had to say about more of his co-stars:

Rene Russo (“Tin Cup”)

“Everybody liked to teach her how to golf, right? You know, ‘You’re doing this wrong, so let’s do it again and again and again and again and again.’

“Rene is, she’s just a – I’m going to say a word and now all the sudden the Twitter’s gonna fly –but she’s like this, it’s a term of endearment, but she’s like a great broad. She’s so easy around men and around women. She’s a really unthreatening person. She makes guys feel, she makes every guy feel like they have a chance, and nobody does… She’s very, she was a good screen partner.”

Jennifer Aniston (“Rumor Has It”)

“Jennifer has had such a journey, I mean a successful journey — the architecture of her career that she’s been able to amass. I mean, people wanted to discount her early on. Or people just didn’t get it about who she was. She continues to emerge, she continues to succeed. Those that could be the most jealous of her just haven’t been proven right. She just keeps succeeding.”

Sean Young (“No Way Out”)

“Sean was one of the most beautiful women. She really reminded me of someone from the ’40s or ’50s. I’d seen Sean because I was the guy that tested against every girl that went up for ‘Flashdance’ in the town. That means every girl that tried out for ‘Flashdance,’ I did a bedroom scene with them. But I also ended up getting slapped, they slapped the sht *out of me in the scene… I saw Sean Young there, and then of course later on… three or four years later I’m hiring people and so I went to Sean and she just had that look. She disappears in that movie after page 25, 30, but it was an indelible role that she played.”

Whitney Houston (“The Bodyguard”)

“Well, we lost Whitney, butI’ll always have that moment with her, that kind of moment when she’d not been in a movie and she said ‘I’m not sure what to do.’ I said, ‘Just look to me and I’ll tell you.’ And she was so street smart that she understood that. And it was my obligation, it was my job to protect her. And I wasn’t the only one, butwe had a moment in film, and people have connected that moment and have not let the two of us go when they think about that.”

Jennifer Garner (“Draft Day”) & Mary McDonnell (“Dances With Wolves”)

“I know these interviews get cut down but if I didn’t say their names, didn’t say how important Jennifer was in ‘Draft Day,’ I would be remiss. And Mary McDonnell came out of nowhere… and see how her career has shaped up. So women are important in my movies, they always have been. I always heard the rap that ‘Oh, there’s not enough good women parts,’ but I feel really good about the movies I’ve done and the place that women have in them.”

Erin O’Sullivan

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