Kevin Costner‘s legal team ruthlessly responded to a lawsuit filed by a stunt performer over an alleged unscripted rape scene in his film, Horizon 2.

In a statement to The New York Post, Costner’s attorney, Marty Singer, denied allegations made by Devyn LaBella — the lead stunt double for Ella Hunt’s character, Juliette, in 2024’s Horizon films — in a lawsuit filed on May 27.

Singer claimed that the 70-year-old Hollywood star, who starred in and directed the movie, “always wants to make sure that everyone is comfortable working on his films and takes safety on set very seriously.”

Costner’s lawyer added, “However, this claim by Devyn LaBella has absolutely no merit, and it is completely contradicted by her own actions – and the facts.”

In the lawsuit, per Page Six, LaBella alleged that Costner improvised a scene in which Hunt’s character would be raped by Roger Ivens’ character without proper protocol or advanced warning. When Hunt “refused to do the scene and had walked off the set,” LaBella was brought in as a stand-in without being informed about the scene or Hunt’s reasons for leaving, the docs claimed.

“Moreover, the call sheet did not specify what the revised shot would consist of nor did any instruction issue from the production crew that Ms. LaBella’s involvement in the impromptu shot would go beyond standing in as a standard body-double,” the lawsuit states.

“She was not warned or prepared for Mr. Ivens to perform or engage in any action on top of her and first learned that Ivens would mount her and violently pull her skirt up when he was already on top of her doing so.”

34-year-old LaBella claims that Costner directed Ivens to “repeatedly perform a violent simulated rape” on her “without proper notice, consent, preparation, or appropriate safeguard measures in place, such as the project’s intimacy coordinator being called in.”

“As directed by Costner, this unscripted, unrehearsed scene consisted of Mr. Ivens mounting Ms. LaBella, while miming the unbuttoning of his pants, and using his body and arms forcibly pinning down Ms. LaBella, who was on her back underneath him. Mr. Ivens violently rustled Ms. LaBella’s skirt up as if trying to penetrate her against her will,” the court documents state.

The lawsuit alleges that the scene violated SAG-AFTRA protocols, which require actors to consent and be notified 48 hours in advance for any scenes involving nudity or simulated sex.

In his response to the claims, Costner’s lawyer said, “Ms. LaBella is a serial accuser of people in the entertainment industry and has worked with the same lawyer on past claims. But those shakedown tactics won’t work in this case.”

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