Kevin Costner Discloses That It Wasn't Whitney Houston In The Famous Bodyguard Poster

Jun 25, 2019

There is one image that comes to mind when thinking about the 1992 film “The Bodyguard.” It’s a blurry black and white photo of Kevin Costner’s bodyguard character carrying his charge Rachel Marron (played by Whitney Houston in an iconic role) to safety.

But the famous image doesn’t include Whitney Houston at all. Kevin Costner divulged that in fact, one of Whitney’s body doubles stood in for that photo.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Costner dropped the bomb that Houston wasn’t even in the picture. He told the interviewer, “She had gone home, and that was her double, and her head was buried into my shoulder, which was appropriate anyway. She was frightened.”

He went on to explain that he was also part of the process in picking the photo since it was taken by a friend of his, Ben Glass. Costner called it “evocative” because there was no “special photography.” He believed in the image so much that he fought for it when the executives pushed back, saying that they couldn’t use it because Whitney’s face wasn’t in it. They even tried to photoshop her in at one point.

Audiences all over the world are glad that the picture stayed the way it did for the poster. The urgency felt in the image echos that of the dialogue on screen and the high action sequences of Costner the bodyguard fighting off attackers.

“The Bodyguard” poster remains one of the most iconic movie posters in cinema history, and the same goes for the soundtrack. But while she was replaceable in the photograph, Whitney’s voice could not be matched by any other.

Listen to her voice in “The Bodyguard” trailer below:

Are your dreams dashed now that you know it wasn’t Whitney? What do you think about “The Bodyguard?” Let us know in the comments.