{"id":435765,"date":"2026-01-25T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435765\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:38:08","slug":"kevin-costner-and-morgan-freeman-reunite-for-new-civil-war-series-the-gray-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435765\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman Reunite for New Civil War Series ‘The Gray House’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Costner<\/a> and Morgan Freeman<\/a> attended a screening of their new series, The Gray House, on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n

The two are serving as executive producers of the eighth-episode Civil War drama. The series, which premieres on Amazon’s Prime Video on Feb. 26, marks the pair’s first collaboration since Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, made 35 years ago. Costner and Freeman reminisced with ET Online<\/a> about what they remember\u2014and don’t remember\u2014about making Robin Hood in 1991.<\/p>\n

“He’s a consummate actor, you know,” Costner said of Freeman. “We stepped into this Robin Hood mythology, and he was just immediately available as a man, as an actor. We had these sword fights, and we just, we both looked at each other, it was a very good moment for both of us. We knew, almost like [The] Gray House, we knew we had a very good script. We knew that we had a very good retelling of Robin Hood. And the script, the direction, and all reflected that.”<\/p>\n

Freeman’s memory wasn’t quite as good as his co-star’s, though.<\/p>\n

“I remember having a good time doing it. That’s about it. It’s 35 years, and I don’t remember much,” Freeman said, laughing.<\/p>\n

The Gray House stars Daisy Head, Paul Anderson, Amethyst Davis, and Mary-Louise Parker, and is based on real-life events. Head plays Elizabeth Van Lew, who, according to Encyclopedia Virginia<\/a>, operated a spy ring for the Union from her home in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War. Eventually, she was officially recruited by the US government.<\/p>\n

Parker plays Van Lew’s mother, Eliza Van Lew, who helped her daughter. After Elizabeth’s father died, Eliza set about trying to free the family<\/a>‘s slaves or make sure they were paid for labor. Davis plays Mary Jane Richards<\/a>, a former slave of the Van Lew family, who also allegedly worked as a spy under Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

“We’re still storytellers at our core,” Costner explained the reason he and Freeman decided to get involved. “We didn’t exactly see a part for ourselves, and Morgan was busy with certain things. But we recognized that as a real piece of entertainment, first and foremost, wrapping itself in a true story.”<\/p>\n

Freeman recognized that Costner has made several projects centered on the past. One of his most critically acclaimed films, Dances With Wolves, also took place during the Civil War.<\/p>\n

“Kevin’s been involved in history,” Freeman said. “Yellowstone<\/a> was back then, and then he did his own project, which was back then. American history is kind of cool. It’s got some good stuff going on in there.”<\/p>\n

“This is one that nobody ever even knew about, or thought about,” the Now You See Me actor said. “So stories like that are really worth telling.”<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Jan 24, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman attended a screening of their new series, The Gray House, on Jan. 22.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,24417,227551,227549,227548,134,227547,70589,129615,162800,344,55849,227546,227550],"class_list":["post-435765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-civil-war","tag-daisy-head","tag-eliza-van-lew","tag-elizabeth-van-lew","tag-entertainment","tag-gray-house","tag-kevin-costner","tag-mary-louise-parker","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-movies","tag-robin-hood","tag-the-gray-house","tag-van-lew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}