When your dad is Clint Eastwood, being a Nepo baby can only take you so far, apparently. Scott Eastwood may have made his on-screen debut in his father’s film “Flags of Our Fathers,” but the actor hasn’t worked with the prolific elder Eastwood in years. In interviews, Scott Eastwood has repeatedly admitted to auditioning for bigger roles in his father’s films, but he has also admitted that he never got the roles.
“I was 18 when I called him up and wanted to audition for ‘Flags of Our Fathers,'” the young Eastwood told The Independent In 2015. “I was a young actor trying to make something of myself, working two jobs and working hard and he said: ‘Okay, we’ll see. I’ll give you a chance to audition.’ “Although he didn’t do that.” While not revealing which role he tried out for, Scott Eastwood said he “auditioned for one of the bigger roles” in the 2006 film about the Battle of Iwo Jima. “Obviously that didn’t happen,” he told the outlet, but he was hired “to do a few lines in the movie.”
Although I’m sure it’s hard for the young Eastwood to be rejected by his father on a professional level, it’s also a Little It’s a little ridiculous to imagine Clint Eastwood, famously a tough, no-nonsense guy, refusing to conform to the long-standing Hollywood tradition of giving your kid the job they probably deserve Are not. “That’s how he approaches every project,” Scott Eastwood told The Independent. “I’ve auditioned for many big roles in his movies and never got them.” In the same article, he admitted that Eastwood had also turned him down for the 2014 war film “American Sniper” starring Bradley Cooper.
Clint Eastwood has rejected his son for many roles
Scott Eastwood said at the time that this rejection may have been a blessing in disguise, as it allowed him to make the Nicholas Sparks adaptation “The Longest Ride”, which saw him step into the role of the romantic lead. actor too spoke to variety In 2015, about working with his father, he said, “I have auditioned for almost every film of my father.” That outlet reported that he failed to get a role in the Leonardo DiCaprio-led Clint Eastwood biopic “J. Edgar” directed in 2011 Scott Eastwood said he doesn’t always hear back after losing out on roles in his father’s films Are. , “You don’t get any calls,” he told Variety. “It’s nothing personal.”
To date, the young Eastwood has appeared in only three major films, playing a side character in “Gran Torino”, a football player in “Invictus” and a US Marine in “Flags of Our Fathers”. , He also appeared in the Clint Eastwood-produced film “Trouble with the Curve”, which starred his father. In addition to the family filmography, Scott Eastwood has played roles in such franchise films as “Fast X,” “Pacific Rim: Uprising.” ” and “Suicide Squad,” as well as the films David Ayer’s “Fury” and Oliver Stone’s “Snowden.” Swifties also know the actor as Taylor Swift’s boyfriend in her “Wildest Dreams” music video. Are the two Whether or not the Eastwoods will work together again remains to be seen (“Juror #2” may apparently be Clint Eastwood’s final film as a director), but we wouldn’t blame Scott Eastwood if he kept his word after all that rejection. Stopped auditioning for the father’s character – or lack thereof.
