An Interesting Relationship
Before beginning work on Dances with Wolves, Costner tried to persuade Blake to work with a variety of studios. Blake made the entire process tough by disagreeing with the reps, according to Costner in an interview. He claims, “I started to lose patience with him.” Blake eventually moved to Arizona to write his book while washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant, and their relationship deteriorated from there. When Costner finally agreed to read it, he said, “It was the clearest idea for a movie that I’d ever read.”
An Interesting Relationship
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