Kevin Costner is doing a media blitz for former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete ButtigiegPete ButtigiegScaled-back Pride Month poses challenges for fundraising, outreach Biden hopes to pick VP by Aug. 1 It’s as if a Trump operative infiltrated the Democratic primary process MORE as voting in New Hampshire’s primary gets underway, and he’s defending speaking out politically as a Hollywood star.
“I’m an actor. It’s like, why should you be talking about politics? That’s an easy place to go,” Costner said in an interview Monday with WBZ-TV.
“But I pay taxes. I have children. It matters to me the life, the world that they’re gonna inherit,” the “Field of Dreams” star said. “And I don’t like the direction we’re going.”
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Costner appeared at a campaign rally for Buttigieg on Monday in the Granite State on the eve of the nation’s first presidential primary. It’s not the only campaigning the 65-year-old performer has done for the former mayor — he also took to the stage at a Buttigieg event in Iowa last month.
“Politics is a thing that a lot of us don’t get involved in,” Costner said Tuesday in an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, “and what we realize once in a while is by not getting involved, politics can run right over you.”
“I like to believe his voice will carry through,” Costner, who supported then-Sen. Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaHarris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Five ways America would take a hard left under Joe Biden Valerie Jarrett: ‘Democracy depends upon having law enforcement’ MORE (D-Ill.) in the 2008 presidential election, said of Buttigieg.
Buttigieg brought additional star power to New Hampshire, too. Actor Michael J. Fox was with the White House hopeful during an event over the weekend. “We have a very stable Rhodes scholar,” the “Back to the Future” actor quipped of Buttigieg at Keene State College.
Other entertainers have also headed to the state to offer some high-profile support for their candidates of choice. Former “Sex and the City” actress and onetime New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon spoke at a Monday campaign rally for Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.), and Ashley Judd was in town rooting on Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE’s (D-Mass.) presidential bid.
—Updated at 3 p.m.