Scott Eastwood Talks About His Dad, Clint Eastwood

the experience jurgen my dad eats a lot of salmon he loves salmon yes, but your dad is like a hundred years old he does very well 91 91 yesterday yes yes yes how tough he is he was born on memorial day bad I know, I know, you know, he almost Oh my God, this is a crazy story, I don't know if you know the story, but he was two seconds away from being sent to the Korean War and he was in a plane crash off San Francisco when he was 21 years old. Wow! he was in the military and he was doing a flight somewhere, he had done something like a training flight or something, they said oh you know, get on this thing and he said, okay, cool, last minute I'll go To do it, I was on a plane.

The accident landed in San Francisco, on the outskirts of San Francisco Bay, and since it ended up there, I think one person died and the pilot or co-pilot, I don't remember, had to swim to shore like at night, more than two miles. I want to say something crazy and you know there are tons of sharks, tons of sharks out there in San Francisco and this was, you know, 1950, so at that time my grandmother, uh, they had told my grandmother that they had sunk in a plane crash. She thought he thought she thought he was dead and there were no cell phones, there was no social media, there was nothing.

It took him a week when he came back and went back to the thing to be able to call her after I don't make you go to the hospital, I can't remember it so he could call his mom and say hey, I'm alive, wow, and that's what They kept him from going to the Korean War because he was supposed to be deployed but because he was in his plane crash he had to stay and testify and do all this and they had just been deployed without him. Wow, it's not so crazy how one moment in time can change the entire course of someone's life, yeah, and a moment that's completely out of your control, there are these strange paths you come to at the gates of life. and you go left and you're fine, you go right and the journey is over, the journey is over, yeah my dad was born in 1930. that's great before world war 2 that's crazy which is crazy what it's like to talk to him first of all what it's like to be Clint Eastwood's son and also be a movie star that must be weird okay look I'm stumbling through this like anyone else in life, you know, you're just trying, taking the information you have, trying to make the best decisions in the moment, talking to my dad, it's like there's a wealth of knowledge. and the fork bangs and you're trying to get little splinters out when you talk to him because he just casually says things like yeah and everyone closes their mouth like at a dinner party, you know, you know, eventually you'll know he's about to say something and then he'll say yeah, well, that was, you know, in the '60s, I was with Frank Sinatra in that place at the time and, oh yeah, we did it, we met her and that thing, and wait, what did you just do?

Say you were with Frank Sinatra like wait, wait, let's stop, stop, like more and more, give us more and then he'll move on to something else and you know you can't get it out of him, but it's like it's him. I just lived this amazing, amazing life, so you know, I'm trying right now. I'm trying to absorb every bit of knowledge I can from him, listen to him, sit with him as much as possible so I know no. He's going to be there forever and that's scary, you know, thinking about it, but it's like, oh man, this is it, I have to spend every moment he can.

Do you exercise? Yes, he is super active. Obviously he's 91 years old, so how old are you? 35, so he. He had you very late in life, but he had three children after me, whoa, which one is the youngest? The youngest is 220. 20. he has had some younger and younger wives. He has a 20-year-old boy, yes. 23. Holy yes, shooting live rounds very, very, very, very deep. the 60's machine gun rounds wow, that's crazy, yeah, that was the news anchor, right, it was her, it was, yeah, yeah, she's cool, actually, she was cool, but yeah, yeah, yeah you know he had some younger women around it's a throwback yeah.

He really is, you know, and what's interesting is what people think of him, they think they see this larger than life character, but he's much more complex than what you see and the movies he appears in, There are many nuances, it is like humans. I know it's like I'm sure every human would think of you just for whatever and say, well, he's just this thing that they don't know about your personal life, they don't know what you're like with your kids. how you are, you know how you think you know esoterically about things and you know when you talk to your wife like he's very different than that, he's very nuanced and he's very, I think he's middle of the road. of things, he looks at the problems and says well, this is that and it's that and maybe there's a middle ground and I don't know, you know it well, there's always this need to dismiss people, any people, you have this reductionist perspective.

Whose person is that? It's and it's hard to just be curious and it's just to say uh, abandon all your preconceived notions and say uh, imagine, imagine being that guy, like imagine being Clint Eastwood, yeah, imagine that many lives have been lived, they've been lived like many. lives. He lived many lives. Did he ever talk to you about what it was like to be the mayor of Carmel? He was the mayor when I was a little boy. He was a few years old. I think he had. he was sick of politics, that was it because they asked him they were like, well, you know, you've been mayor now, why not, you know, you're going to be governor, you know? and he said: no, this is not for me, come on. just try it yeah, it was, you know, I think it was good, it was that he did what he did, but you know you can never please everyone, everyone, there's always someone angry, there's always some conflicting point of view, always talk to him about it.

The time he pretended Obama was sitting next to him was weird, it was like improvised, you know, like he was just improvising, yeah, yeah, he's doing something crazy to get it right on live TV, I mean, you do the same. Kind of like yeah, but I do it in comedy clubs, but what's the difference? It's like you go out, you practice the material, you're working the material, it's like you know you're standing in front of people doing something. it's like we call it different because it's like, oh, that was that, but I guarantee you Obama wouldn't have said the things that he thought Obama would have said.

Obama probably would have had some pretty nuanced perspectives, I'm sure you know, again, same thing. kind of things that people wanted to do to him or do to other people, like they were doing it to Obama. Look, he maybe he didn't work out his stuff. You know, no, I'm sure he didn't do it, but that's how it was. It was a bold choice. I thought, Wow, what a badass Clint Eastwood is and Richard Pryor did that too. If you go back and listen to old Richard Pryor cassettes, there are some that are available at the Red Fox Comedy Club and you can find them.

I bought them online, but one day I bought them at a gas station, in the '90s, these cassette tapes and they were all like him at the Red Fox comedy club and it was just him, like you could hear the jingling of the drinks, you could hear things in the background and Ice and you could hear people talking and it was like a small crowd where he was around and that's where a lot of his brighter, more interesting parts came from, so it's similar to what he was doing your dad, but different. Hey, look, I don't mean to speak for him, that's what you know, listening, he can do whatever he wants.

This is Clint Eastwood. You know and you know which of the things I love your father did without forgiveness because he came back and did something like that. I mean, obviously he made all those fantastic spaghetti westerns, all those amazing ones and they call them spaghetti westerns for people who don't know because they were made in Italy, just yeah, so he made all these American westerns, but they were all made in Italy. and everyone said that people didn't think they were going to be very successful at the time, yeah, he came from a show called rawhide if you remember that, yeah, and he was actually sick of doing westerns at the time because he had been known for seven years old and he got an offer to do this spaghetti western it was like in Italy he was like I don't know, you know what I should do, the guy I want to go to Italy has never been there Okay, pretty good, he goes out and works with Sergio Leone and Crazy Story, come back.

In fact, I think he could have done all three or he came back and did one and he came back and people started talking about this movie, but it was the movie he had done, he knew it was Italian, so it was like you knew and then he I was like people were like, you know, this is a great movie, you know, a handful of dollars, whatever it was and uh, he's like, oh, that's great, I want to go see it no no no no no no no he didn't even know that he didn't know that he didn't know that it was his movie that was catching fire in America and then he says, oh, I have to see this movie and he realizes that it's his. movie that caught fire and was an overnight sensation, um and then yeah, he just, I don't know, he started making those movies, he made some of them, um and then he made his own and then he started directing and making their own westerns. but going back to Unforgiven, what I really think is the most interesting thing about that movie is that it's a fusion or it's the whole history of the westerns of him, but to really look back at what it would be like to be an older man and regret having done it. . things that he did wrong, you know, looking back and then it's like using the story that he had created and talking about it, you know what it's like to look back on life and you know one last journey to do different things for his family, so there's like a lot in that movie, you know what I mean, yeah, well it was a much more sober and realistic portrayal of a killer in the west, yeah, you know, William was paid money, yeah , you know, it's probably not that much money, but hey.

We need this person to die, yes, and you are the man who needs to do it and there is also a much more realistic depiction of the way some people react to the idea that they are about to be killed, yes, or that they are I'm going to have to kill someone. They are going to be in a shootout where they could die. It's a great movie. It was almost like he wanted in me the way I felt it was like he had all these amazing westerns. he did it, but then there was this one that's like yeah, you know, let me do a real one, like let me go back and do this thing where it was in that script for 10, almost 10 years, wow, before he did it, yeah, he was like This is awesome I don't think I'm old enough yet oh wisdom wow yeah wow you know what else I love High Plains Drifter?

Yeah, I watched that one every two years. It's good, it's great. I like outlaw Josie whales. oh my god, yes, I loved it, I loved that movie, it's great, yes it's great, but there's something about High Plains Drifter that's like a ghost movie, you don't realize, you don't realize there's a supernatural element in it, yes. What's going on here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, about that one, it's one of my favorites, yeah, your dad made some damn classics and then he made some comedies too, you know in every way, but loose, I mean, what a crazy career, I think They should remake it. haha, with whom and you?

Maybe you would. It would be strange. Why not? Can you imagine it? You know, yeah, big orangutan. I don't want to hang around orangutans, bro, you just piss him off for the wrong reason. He rips your hand away. he puts it up your ass they're dangerous they're so dangerous catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch the catalog of jre videos on spotify, including clips easily switch between the video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre on background by using other apps and you can download episodes to save on data costs, all for free.

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