How Kevin Costner Became a Leading Man in Hollywood

Costner wasn’t the kid raising his hand with all the answers in school. Instead, he was known as a daydreamer who doodled, wrote poems, and gazed out the window more often than he listened to the teacher.

He didn’t feel connected to academics and often felt like an outsider among more conventional students. Despite his average grades, he possessed a vivid imagination and creative spark that set him apart. Costner later said he didn’t realize it at the time, but all that quiet dreaming was preparing him to become a storyteller