Kevin Costner has reacted to John Mulaney’s Field of Dreams Oscars bit.
Per Deadline, Costner reacted to Mulaney’s summary of Field of Dreams on the X account for his band, Kevin Costner & Modern West. Retweeting a clip of the bit, Costner said, “Not a bad summary” with the crying laughing emoji.
What did John Mulaney say about Field of Dreams?
While presenting the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Sound at the Oscars on March 10, 2024, Mulaney humorously described the plot of Field of Dreams, the 1989 baseball movie directed by Phil Alden Robinson that starred Costner.
“What about that moment in Field of Dreams when we hear, ‘If you build it, he will come,’ and then Costner does it, he builds a baseball field. Or, I guess he doesn’t build it, he mows down corn and then there is a field and he’s like, ‘I’m going to watch ghosts play baseball.’ And the bank is like, ‘Do you want to pay your mortgage?’ And he’s like, ‘Nah, I’m going to watch ghosts play baseball.’
“And then he finds James Earl Jones, who wrote The Boat Rocker, which I thought was a real book deep into my 20s. And he’s like, ‘People will come, Ray.’ He’s the only one with a financial plan.
“But what’s weird is Timothy Busfield pushes little Gaby Hoffmann off the bleachers, and she falls down and she’s unconscious. Then Burt Lancaster is Moonlight Graham, and he comes up, pats her on the back a couple of times, and he’s like, ‘Hot dog, stuck in the throat.’ And then he can’t go back in the game because I guess there’s a rule in ghost baseball that, if you leave the field at any point to become an elderly ghost and do the Heimlich maneuver, you can’t return to the field.
“I love Field of Dreams, that should win Best Picture, though they’ll probably go with one of this year’s [movies].”
