Go Ahead, Make His Day

Clint Eastwood sat down with the British media and let loose on everything from his feud with Spike Lee to his support of John McCain. A Hollywood Republican! GASP!

Here are some of the sit-down highlights:

In regards to Spike Lee’s gripe that Clint Eastwood failed to tip a hat to the contributions of a small African American unit on Iwo Jima in the war flick Flags of Our Fathers: “Has he (Spike) ever studied the history?” asked Clint. Yes, there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, “but they didn’t raise the flag. The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go, ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.” “A guy like him should shut his face.”

On being labeled a Hollywood Republican Clint says, “I don’t pay attention to either side. I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair. So I believe in that value of smaller government. Give politicians power and all of a sudden they’ll misuse it on ya.”

And what about John McCain? Eastwood tells the Brit reporter, “My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain and she liked him and I kinda liked him. In fact, we sort of supported him when he was running the first time against Bush eight years ago. But we haven’t been active as yet. It’s kind of a zoo out there right now. So I think I’ll kinda let things percolate.”

One thing Eastwood also makes clear is that he will definitely not be making Dirty Harry 6, despite rumours to the contrary. “Some idiot came up with some theory,” he says. The crime flick Gran Torino, which he is due to film at some point, is emphatically not part of the Dirty Harry cycle. “Not at my age,” he stresses. “There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.”

Click here to read the entire interview.

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