Could Kevin Costner and Reba McEntire soon be sharing the big small screen?

Reba’s latest TV project, Happy’s Place, is different from beloved show from the 2000’s (in which she played a fictitious version of herself), but it still does share some similarities. The biggest similarity is that Happy’s Place features a reunion of former Reba co-stars in McEntire and Melissa Peterman. The incomparable “Barbra Jean” could not have been played by anyone else on the classic 2000’s TV show, and now Peterman bring her patented energy to “needy and dramatic” character named Gabby.

She’s basically “Barbra Jean 2.0.”

Reba plays a character named Bobbie who inherits a family restaurant and finds out she has a much younger half-sister, Isabella, who is played by actress Belissa Escobedo. Reba’s fiancé, Rex Linn, also plays a role in the sitcom that explores the complicated dynamic of running a family business with a family member you didn’t even know existed.

Reba McEntire raved to Us Weekly about how close the cast of the show has gotten through two seasons, and also expressed the willingness and desire to have guest stars join the show from time to time:

“It is a great place to be. We know our audience, we know each other better and we’ve gelled. We didn’t have that big of a break between the first season ending and second season beginning so we just fell right back into it. We’re bonding a lot more. All six of us are very confident and very comfortable with each other — to a point that when we do have a guest cast, we feel very comfortable sharing the stage.”

Happy’s Place has already had plenty of guest stars in it’s tenure, most notable bringing back Reba co-stars Steve Howey, Christopher Rich and JoAnna Garcia Swisher for small roles in the show. But from the sounds of it, they are looking to land some bigger fish from Hollywood… and one name in particular has come up a lot to play the father of Bobbie (McEntire) and Isabella (Escobedo) in flashbacks.

Actor Pablo Castelblanco, who plays the restaurant’s accountant Steve, says that the cast has talked a lot about trying to lure in a former Yellowstone star for the strange role:

“We have a dream of seeing flashbacks to Happy. Belissa really wants Kevin Costner.”

Obviously, the name of the restaurant that Reba’s character runs is named after her later father in the show, Happy. The show actually began with McEntire’s Bobbie surprisingly inheriting the restaurant after Happy’s passing, and also finding out that she had a half-sister in Isabella.

So it would make sense to explore Happy himself, and Melissa Peterman thinks that Kevin Costner would be perfect for the role that would give some context and history to Happy’s Place:

“I also would love a flashback scene, specifically a flashback of the day showing each and everyone’s job interview. That could be really fun. Do we ever really want to see Happy? I would love to.”

Only time will tell if Costner ever joins onto the cast of the NBC series. The good news is that he’s not extremely busy at the moment, with his own western passion projects flopping and him reportedly being blackballed from Hollywood because of the news story that revealed he got into an altercation with a costar on the set of Yellowstone.

The cast of Happy’s Place doesn’t seem to mind, and would presumably welcome Costner with open arms. Considering his other options aren’t looking so good… he just might take it. And I’d love to see him and Reba McEntire interact on screen, even if it’s in a feel-good sitcom like this one.

The second season of Happy’s Place is set to premiere on NBC on November 7 at 8 PM EST.