In 2021, Clint Easwood told the Los Angeles Times he had no plans to retire. The 92-year-old actor – best known for A Fistful Of Dollars and Dirty Harry as well as the more recent The Mule – will be working with Warner Bros.
Discussing Film broke the news last month that the artist has chosen his 40th film, a thriller called Juror #2. The new film centers around a murder case. The movie allegedly will ‘follow a member of the jury of a murder trial who suspects he may have had some part in the victim’s death and is caught in a moral conundrum of whether to use his secret to sway the jury away and protect himself or turn himself in to the justice system he is participating in,’ the site claims.
He has had a total of 11 Oscar nominations. The first film he directed was the 1971 thriller Play Misty For Me, set in Carmel, California. Next he worked on Dirty Harry (also 1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Pale Rider (1985), Bird (1988), Unforgiven (1992), The Bridges Of Madison County (1995), Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil (1997), Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Gran Torino (2008), American Sniper (2014), The Mule (2018), and, more recently Cry Macho (2021), to name a few.
As an actor he stood out in A Fistful Of Dollars (1964), The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966), Where Eagles Dare (1968), and after that, several of the movies he directed himself in.
In 2010 he said he wanted to work until he was 100.
Eastwood said: ‘I’m always sort of shocked [that directors retire].
‘I knew Frank Capra and Billy Wilder a bit… and I always thought, “Why aren’t these guys still working?”
He added, ‘I figure your best years should be at a point when you’ve got a lot of so-called knowledge.
‘Now, maybe [Capra and Wilder] didn’t keep up with the times, or they picked story material that didn’t work and had a few pictures that didn’t do so well.
‘People are very fickle. Hollywood is very fickle.
‘But there’s a Portuguese director [Manoel de Oliveira] who’s still making films, and he’s over 100 years old. I plan to do the same.’