{"id":16,"date":"2026-01-30T23:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:54:48","slug":"kevin-costner-and-morgan-freeman-reunite-for-new-civil-war-series-the-gray-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman Reunite for New Civil War Series ‘The Gray House."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Costner<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Morgan Freeman<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0attended a screening of their new series,\u00a0The Gray House<\/em>, 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\u00a0Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves<\/em>, made 35 years ago. Costner and Freeman reminisced with\u00a0ET Online<\/a><\/em>\u00a0about what they remember\u2014and don’t remember\u2014about making\u00a0Robin Hood<\/em>\u00a0in 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<\/em>, 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

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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<\/em>\u00a0stars\u00a0Daisy Head<\/strong>,\u00a0Paul Anderson<\/strong>,\u00a0Amethyst Davis<\/strong>, and\u00a0Mary-Louise Parker<\/strong>, and is based on real-life events. Head plays\u00a0Elizabeth Van Lew<\/strong>, who, according to\u00a0Encyclopedia Virginia<\/a><\/em>, 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\u00a0family<\/a>‘s slaves or make sure they were paid for labor. Davis plays\u00a0Mary Jane Richards<\/strong><\/a>, a former slave of the Van Lew family, who also allegedly worked as a spy under Elizabeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Costner\u00a0and\u00a0Morgan Freeman\u00a0attended a screening of their new series,\u00a0The Gray House, on Jan. 22. The two are serving as executive producers of the eighth-episode Civil War drama. The series, which premieres on Amazon’s Prime...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}