Kevin Costner sued by stuntwoman over unscripted rape scene in ‘Horizon’ film

Kevin Costner He is sued by a cascade who claimed to be made to perform an unwritten rape scene without an appropriate announcement, consent or mandatory presence of intimacy coordinator while working on the actor and director’s upcoming movie “Horizon: American Saga – Chapter 2.”

In the sequel to the movie, Devyn Labella was the main double cascade for actress Ella Hunt, who played one of the main characters of the movie “Horizon”, Juliette Chesney. “Horizon: The American Saga” is a four -part Western film series that has been coaited, produced and directed by Costner, who also plays.

In a complaint with the Superior Court Court of California for Los Angeles, and obtained by Fox News Digital, Labella sued Costner and his production company for sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, creating an enemy environment in the workplace, and retaliation resulting from the alleged incident in May 2023.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Costner’s lawyer, Marty Singer, explicitly denied the allegations made against his client, Saying that Labella’s claim “there is absolutely no credit.”

She claimed in the lawsuit that “May 2, 2023. Prosecutor Devyn Labella, a female performer cascade, was the victim of a violent unwritten, unplanned rape site directed by Kevin Costner.”

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“The impact of this improvised demand for work on Mrs. Labella was deep, not only has she increased her career that Mrs. Labella spent for years by building, but leaving her with a permanent trauma she will have to deal with for years,” the documents added.

Labella sues for indefinite compensation and criminal compensation, and requested a jury trial.

According to the lawsuit, the coordinator of Kascader Wade Allen hired Labella on the Sag-Aftra contract to work as a Hunt’s double dual cascade during the filming of “Horizon 2”, which took place in Utah. According to SAG-Aftra protocols, all scenes involving nudity or simulated gender require 48 hours before, consent and closed set, together with the right to bring the contractor to the intimacy coordinator.

The lawsuit stated that Hunt’s “Horizon 2” contract prescribed that the presence of intimacy coordinator is mandatory for all scenes involving nudity or simulated sex, which is also a request that has also expanded to anyone who acts as actors, including Labella.

According to the lawsuit, Labella started shooting “Horizon 2” In April 2023.

“For the first few weeks, Mrs. Labella has professionally performed her cascades without an incident,” the documents said. “However, this experience has changed dramatically. Because of their physical nature, the defendants informed Mrs. Labella that they would double the majority of the screenplay, aggressive and intimate rape scene” between Julietta and the character of the male actor.

According to the documents, the scene was filmed on May 1, 2023, and Labella and the actors had previously practiced it with Wade and the intimacy coordinator. During the scene, the set was closed and the intimacy coordinator was present.

“Scene” wrapped “and no problems have been observed,” the lawsuit said.

According to the documents, Labella was on the shooting of the “non-fat scene” the next day. In the lawsuit, she claimed that Costner, who was present on the set, improvised additional scenes in which Juliette would rape a different character played by another actor.

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The new scenes demanded that the actor “climb to the top of Mrs. Hunt, violently growing the skirt,” the documents claimed. “Due to the ad hoc and the violent nature of the sudden demand for changing the script, along with the failure to provide the Coordinator for the scene, Mrs. Hunt became visibly upset and started off the set, refusing to make a scene,” documents said.

Labella claimed that Costner asked her to serve as a “stand-up” for Hunt after the actress departure. She claimed that Costner directed the second actor to “repeatedly perform violently simulated rape” on it “without the appropriate announcement, consent, preparation or appropriate protection measures, such as the invited project intimacy coordinator.”

According to the lawsuit, Labella was not aware that Hunt had left the set after allegedly refused to perform the scene.

In addition, Labella claimed that the set was not closed.

“Unlike shots from the previous day, which were limited to only actors involved in the choreographed situation with the DASA coordinator, the coordinator of intimacy and some leading production staff and all the irrelevant production people, May 2, the overall experience was broadcast over the monitors,” the lawsuit claimed.

“Further increase in confusion and stress for Mrs. Labella, the scene on May 2. He did not have a clear direction when the scene began or finished. The defendant Costner failed to announce or consistently announce the” action “at the beginning or” cut “at the end of the shoot,” the documents said.

“Once the action has already begun, there was no time or space to process or reject the direction that is given.”

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Labella also claimed that Allen and intimacy coordinator were not informed that scene It took place.

After completing the scene, Labella “experienced shock, shame and humiliation as she tried to process the situation.”

Labella said she experienced “sudden struggle to cry and turn off” for the next few days, “at one point she broke in a hair trailer.” According to the documents, Labella flew home for several days to spend time with her family before returning to the set.

“However, the situation on the set on her return was very clumsy,” the documents claimed. “The production team was now extremely careful about Mrs. Labella. She was instructed to be left alone in the trailer and was not present on the set, although it resulted in she was dressed in the costume all day long and then was not used.”

“More people apologized to her during the day and justified herself for director Costner, and everything made her feel even more uncomfortable,” the lawsuit added.

After the production of production, Labella claimed she was Therapy began In June 2023, “solving symptoms” of alleged experience, which included “intrusive disturbing memories of a traumatic event, a sleep disorder, a fear of intimacy and anxiety.”

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“That day I stayed exposed, unprotected and deeply released by a system that promised security and professionalism,” Labella said in a Fox News Digital statement.

“What happened to me broke my trust and changed forever as I move through this industry,” she continued. “While I continue to work and take my journey on the coordination of a stroke, I act with a fierce dedication to support the highest standards, creating rallies in which security, communication and consent cannot be negotiated.”

“This experience has fallen into me a lifelong mission to be an advocate I used to, ensuring that no one else ever remains as vulnerable as I was.”

In a statement, Singer told Fox News Digital: “Our client, Kevin Costner, always wants to make sure everyone will be comfortable working on their films and takes it very seriously with certainty. However, this statement Devyn Labella has absolutely no credit, and it is in contrast to their own actions – and facts.”

Singer Labella is marked with “a serial accuser of people in Entertainment industry,“Adding”, but these shaken tactics will not work in this case.

“As a contractor for ‘Horizon 2’, the scene in question was explained to Mrs. Labella, and after performing a rehearsal in Lika with another actor, she gave her supervisor of the Kascader coordinator [Allen] “Thumbs up” and pointed to the willingness to then shoot the scene, if necessary (not), “Singer said.

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“That night, Mrs. Labella had dinner with her supervisor, the coordinator of Kascader, with an auxiliary cascade coordinator, and was in a good mood and did not complain to them,” he continued. “She continued to work on the movie for a few more weeks to the date of the wrapper, and the Coordinator Stosa took her thanks for dinner.”

Singer also pointed to the text Labella allegedly sent to Allen, who was “illustrated with Emojis Happy Heart” and read, “Thank you for these wonderful weeks! I appreciate you so much! I have learned so much and thank you again.

“The facts are clear, and we are outside convinced that Kevin will prevail,” Singer concluded.