When your dad is Clint Eastwood, being a nepo child can apparently solely get you thus far. Scott Eastwood could have made his on-screen debut in his father’s movie “Flags of Our Fathers,” however the actor hasn’t labored with the prolific elder Eastwood in various years. In interviews, Scott Eastwood has continuously admitted to auditioning for greater components in his father’s movies, however he is additionally admitted that he by no means tends to get these roles.
“I used to be 18 years previous after I referred to as him and wished to audition for ‘Flags of Our Fathers,'” the youthful Eastwood informed The Unbiased again in 2015. “I used to be a younger actor making an attempt to make one thing of myself, working two jobs and hustling and he stated: ‘Properly, we’ll see. I am going to offer you a shot to audition.'” Although he did not disclose which half he tried out for, Scott Eastwood stated he “auditioned for one of many greater roles” within the 2006 film concerning the Battle of Iwo Jima. “Clearly did not occur,” he informed the outlet, however he did get employed “to do a few traces within the movie.”
Whereas I am positive it is robust on the youthful Eastwood to get rejected by his dad on an expert stage, it is also a little bit humorous to think about Clint Eastwood, famously a tricky, no-nonsense man, refusing to provide into the long-standing Hollywood custom of giving your child a job they may not deserve. “That is the way it rolls with him on each undertaking,” Scott Eastwood informed The Unbiased. “I’ve auditioned for lots of the larger roles in his movies and by no means received them.” In the identical article, he admitted that Eastwood additionally turned him down for “American Sniper,” the polarizing 2014 battle movie starring Bradley Cooper.
Clint Eastwood has rejected his son for a number of roles
That rejection could have been a blessing in disguise, Scott Eastwood stated on the time, as a result of it allowed him to make “The Longest Journey,” a Nicholas Sparks adaptation that noticed him step into the function of romantic lead. The actor additionally spoke to Selection in 2015 about working along with his father, saying, “I’ve auditioned for just about each considered one of my father’s films.” That outlet reported that he didn’t earn a component in “J. Edgar,” the Leonardo DiCaprio-led biopic Clint Eastwood directed in 2011, with Scott Eastwood including that he would not at all times hear again after dropping out on components in his dad’s films. “You aren’t getting a telephone name,” he informed Selection. “It is nothing private.”
So far, the youthful Eastwood has solely made it into three of the elder’s movies, enjoying a aspect character’s date in “Gran Torino,” a soccer participant in “Invictus,” and a non-public within the U.S. marines in “Flags of Our Fathers.” He additionally popped up within the Clint Eastwood-produced film “Bother with the Curve,” which his father starred in. Outdoors of the household filmography, Scott Eastwood has had roles in franchise flicks like “Quick X,” “Pacific Rim: Rebellion,” and “Suicide Squad,” plus films together with David Ayer’s “Fury” and Oliver Stone’s “Snowden.” Swifties additionally know the actor as Taylor Swift’s beau in her “Wildest Goals” music video. Whether or not the 2 Eastwoods will ever work collectively once more stays to be seen (“Juror #2” might apparently be Clint Eastwood’s last movie as a director), however we do not blame Scott Eastwood if he stopped auditioning for his dad in any case these rejection letters — or lack thereof.
