It turns out Kevin Costner’s tense relationship with his fictional son on the hit series Yellowstone was inspired by some off-screen drama.

An insider spilled to The Hollywood Reporter that Yellowstone production briefly shut down after the Oscar and Emmy-award-winning actor, 70, clashed with his co-star Wes Bentley, 47, who plays his adoptive son on the show.

Costner, the Dutton family patriarch, was filming a scene with on-screen siblings played by Bentley and Kelly Reilly when tensions reportedly boiled over on the Utah soundstage.

A source told THR that Costner, who was an executive producer on the show on top of being its main star, was pushing Bentley to ditch showrunner Taylor Sheridan’s script and play the scene how he wanted.

Bentley refused, the insider said, arguing that he

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