Looks like Juror #2 won’t be Clint Eastwood’s last film after all. The living legend has clearly not said his last word: The 95-year-old director rec
Looks like Juror #2 won’t be Clint Eastwood’s last film after all. The living legend has clearly not said his last word: The 95-year-old director recently told Austrian magazine Kurier that he is already in preproduction on a modern project. And he put it bluntly, saying that he won’t be retiring “for a long time.”
“There’s no reason why a man can’t get better with age,” Eastwood told the publication. “And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I’m not one of them.”
Although Eastwood was circumspect about the content of his next film, he was more open with his thoughts on the current state of cinema. He lamented a landscape dominated by proven IP, saying, “I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea. We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I’ve shot sequels three times, but I haven’t been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home.”
This critique of contemporary cinema seems linked to the way Eastwood was trained in Hollywood’s golden age. “As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year,” Eastwood told the magazine. “And that’s why I’ll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I’m truly senile.”
Original story in VF France.
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