Spring 2024

Eastwood: Make the stories you want to make.There is an audience. Just give it a go. CM: Your advice to anyone? Eastwood: I don’t know that I have any advice to give. I think we all have to figure it out ourselves. I would just say, don’t be afraid to strike out. Just keep on swinging. Reflections on Clint Eastwood From His Children Scott Eastwood Scott Eastwood is well-known for his resem- blance to his father and for playing diverse parts, starting with roles in his father’s movies like “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Gran Torino” and “Invictus.” He’s been in popular films, including “Suicide Squad,” “The Fate of the Furious” and “The Longest Ride.” At press time, Scott was preparing to shoot an action movie with Sylvester Stallone followed by a few days off and then a true story drama with Kate Beckinsale. After filming, he says he plans to come back to Carmel “to visit my pops.” Scott points out that his father has been on top of his game for close to five decades now, and that’s a pretty big deal. “He made a transition from being a movie star to directing movies that had a lot of mean- ing to them,” he says. “I think he transcends the genre of baby boomers who probably grew up watching his movies in the late ’60s and ’70s all the way through the ’90s and then directing movies up until the present day.” Scott says the breadth of his father’s work appeals to a wide variety of people. “He’s made an evolution in his career that’s not one note,” he says. “He also represents a generation that wasn’t soft, coming out of the Great Depression, coming out of World War II. I think he speaks to people that had a lot of “He’s really a ver y chilled out, laid back guy, which is why he’s had such longevity… Men wanted to be him, and women wanted to be with him… It doesn’t hur t that he was ver y good looking and ver y char ismatic , and he still knows how to turn on the charm.” —Alison Eastwood 108 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • S P R I N G 2 0 2 4 Photo: PA Images /Alamy Stock Photo (Above) Eastwood was met at Heathrow Airport in 1967 by Sandra Marshall, Susan Melody and Anita MacGregor. (Below) Eastwood with Barbara Eden in “Rawhide,” 1959. Photo: Album/Alamy Stock Photo