An Unmerited Clint Eastwood Taunting:
Besides his role as trainer Frankie Dunn, Clint Eastwood also wished to play the character of female boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby. However, he was told “no” by the studio because his breasts were too big.
Clint Eastwood’s academy award winning movie Million Dollar Baby didn’t always focus on boxing. In fact, the original script was turned down by Warner Bros. as it was a detailed account of a week-long period in 1996 when Mr. Eastwood attempted to sell his newborn baby for a million dollars.
In 1978’s non-academy award winning movie Every Which Way But Loose, Clint Eastwood plays the caretaker of a fist fighting orangutan. The two divorced in 1980.
A little known bit of Eastwood trivia is that the first two raisins were created by Dole Foods at the behest of Paramount studios. The reason? Mr. Eastwood was bashful about showing his craggy, old, and shrivelled balls during a scheduled nude scene and the studio needed something that would look just like them on film.
Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of “Carmel-by-the-Sea” in California. However, Mr. Eastwood immediately absconded when he arrived to take office and discovered that it was not in fact a town but a gay water park.
Clint Eastwood’s favorite drink is from the oldest bottle of scotch known to man: a Glenfiddich Rare Collection from 1937 (a 71 year old Scotch!). The bottle is forty-three years younger than he is.
Numerous shots of Clint Eastwood astride horses in his films have misled viewers into thinking that the actor himself is an avid rider. Rather it was just a ploy many of his producers used to cover up his bow-legged gait after long nights spent “jammin’ with the extras.”
Clint Eastwood is an enormous fan of golf…because he is truly, truly old.
In a recent interview, Clint Eastwood was asked of which of his award winning films he was most proud. Mr. Eastwood responded, “the smash hit, Reindeer Games.” When the interviewer reminded Mr. Eastwood that he did not direct Reindeer Games, Mr. Eastwood mumbled, “carrots” and pooped his pants.
Fellow film director Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood were involved in a feud over the lack of African American soldiers in Mr. Eastwood’s WWII epic, Flags of Our Fathers. Mr. Eastwood has told Mr. Lee to “shut his face” and Lee has accused Eastwood of reliving his “Dirty Harry days.” The spat seemed to end abruptly when Mr. Eastwood said, “I don’t see how anyone could vote for this character over John McCain.”