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What is it like to be directed by 94-year-oldClint Eastwood?
He works fast and minimally, wrapping scenes in the fewest takes possible.
And then you hear this light crunch sound.
It was actually Clint, whos eating Cheez-Its and making the noise.
Anyone else doing that on set would have been a bit … iffy.
But, hey, its his movie.
And hes a big Cheez-Its guy.
The studio did not respond to a request for comment from Vulture.
But conventional wisdom around Hollywood posits thatDavid Zaslav, chief executive of its parent company, Warner Bros. His bean counters know that Clints movies dont bring in money anymore.
And Clint is content to make them and likely shove them onto Max or PVOD.
[Zaslav] is not an emotional person.
Hes a transactional fuck.
Almost all of them, in some way or another, related to his age.
The hiatus eventually extended to four months, leading Eastwoods collaborators to wonder among themselves.
There was a lot of talk of Is this production actually coming back?
Does Clint have any grandfatherly power to keep his production running and get finished?
Because hes at an age where its like,Will he make it to the end of this movie?
Which prompted Zaslav to reportedly quote theJerry Maguireasshole aphorism: Its not show friends its show business.
Nolan, of course, jumped studios to makeOppenheimerat Universal.
And talentwise since then, things at Warner Bros. have hardly improved.
He skippedJurors premiere at Los AngelessAFI Feston October 27 and to date has not done any press for it.
I was very effusive on the phone, the actor remembered.
I said, I love the script!
I love the script!
I love the script!
Maybe well get people saying, That movie was really good.
How come it was just a limited release?
And that creates a little bit more publicity for it.
Then maybe the studios will be like, Oh, sorry.
like, we didnt know it was going to be received this well.
