Legendary actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood is officially retiring from Hollywood.
Eastwood’s son, Kyle, revealed the surprising news in a newly surfaced interview with French broadcaster France 3, according to Euronews.
Clint Eastwood has retired from filmmaking, his son Kyle Eastwood revealed in a newly surfaced interview, closing the book on a Hollywood career that spanned more than seven decades. https://t.co/rje8AwKcTk
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“I have a lot of good memories of working with him. Now he’s retired, he’s 95 years old,” Kyle Eastwood said in the interview, which was conducted before his father turned 96 on Sunday.
“But I’ve been very lucky to be able to work with him on a lot of films. It was a great experience for me.”
Eastwood’s career began in the mid-1950s, and he has more than 70 screen credits and directed 40 feature films throughout his legendary career.
Eastwood is one of the most successful actors-turned-directors, helping craft multiple movie genres, in including westerns, thrillers, biopics, romances, war films and musicals.
Eastwood earned four Academy Awards during his career, including Best Director for both “Unforgiven” (1992) and “Million Dollar Baby” (2004), each of which also won Best Picture.
He also directed five actors to Oscar wins across those two films: Gene Hackman, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.
Eastwood’s most memorable mark as an actor came in Sergio Leone’s so-called “Dollars Trilogy” — “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “For a Few Dollars More” (1965) and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966), before later starring in the five-film “Dirty Harry” franchise and “Escape from Alcatraz.”
His directorial work ranged from the jazz biography “Bird” to the war epic “American Sniper” and the fact-based drama “Sully.”
Some of his very best films include “Unforgiven,” “Mystic River,” “Gran Torino,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” “Pale Rider,” “High Plains Drifter,” “A Perfect World,” and “Million Dollar Baby.”
Eastwood’s final directorial effort appears to be the 2024 courtroom thriller “Juror No. 2,” starring Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette.
His last on-screen acting role was the 2021 drama “Cry Macho,” in which he also directed.
The late Richard Harris, who worked with Eastwood on “Unforgiven”, said that he had never starred in such a well-organized movie, calling the actor-director’s preparation “astonishing.”