Oscar-winning star Clint Eastwood loves neither birthdays nor retirement … In recent years, he has chained the trifle of nine films! In November, he was still walking the red carpets for his biopic The Richard Jewell Case, variously received by critics, who have drawn particular criticism for having portrayed an unscrupulous journalist exchanging sexual favors for information.
Born May 31, 1930, Eastwood has more than fifty films to his credit. A long career started in the 1950s, with small roles.
Oscar-winning films, but also flops
In the 1960s, the trilogy of Sergio Leone’s westerns made him world famous. Even if he is criticized for his gratuitous violence. A few years later, he was accused of fascism for his role as a police-vigilante in Inspector Harry, then go to war for American sniper (2014).
If his career is not free from flops, sometimes massacred by critics, Eastwood has not harvested only blows: Oscars of the best director and the best film for Ruthless (1993), he reissues the double for Million Dollar Baby (2005).
Polite but reputed not very inclined to confidences or to socialite, Clint Eastwood expressed his desire to work as long as he finds interesting projects. He assured the British channel ITV that he continued to flourish in his profession. “I like being in movies, I like making movies. I started making it because one day I thought I was going to see myself on the screen and say, “That’s enough Eastwood, you should do something else. »»
The actor-director had announced that he was retiring from an actor after his role in Gran Torino (2008). However, he reappeared on camera four years later to A new chance then again for The mule (2018).
Former mayor of the small town of Carmel, California, Clint Eastwood remains politically engaged. He supported billionaire Michael Bloomberg, unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 US presidential election.
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