‘Devastated’ Kevin Costner Honors Ray Liotta With Perfect ‘Field Of Dreams’ Tale

Film icon Kevin Costner paid tribute to “Field Of Dreams” costar Ray Liotta, who died on Thursday at the age of 67.

As it turns out, one memorable moment in the beloved baseball film wasn’t planned. It just happened, and Costner’s reaction was genuine:

According to the film’s trivia page on IMDb, Liotta had no experience playing baseball and trained for the role with legendary USC baseball coach Rod Dedeaux, developing the swing that led to that surprising on-camera moment.

Liotta did have one regret about his performance: Jackson hit lefty while Liotta himself was a righty. Although he tried to learn to hit left-handed, it just didn’t work out and he had to move back to his natural side.

“To this day I regret it because I’m a bug, making sure things are accurate,” Liotta said in the DVD extras, per the New York Post. “There used to be Monday Night Baseball and they were talking about the movie and how wonderful the movie was and some announcer who shall remain nameless said, ‘Yeah, but Shoeless Joe was batting the wrong way.’ Well, he didn’t come down from heaven either, so... ”

Liotta died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming a movie called “Dangerous Waters.”

No cause of death has been given and no foul play is suspected.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.