News culture The day Clint Eastwood was fired for a really strange reason: it was about his physique
Despite his gigantic career, Clint Eastwood was not always an icon of American cinema, and for good reason: he was already fired because of his body. The studios were even convinced that he had no future in the industry…
Not to the taste of the studios
Did you know that at the beginning of his career Clint Eastwood was fired from his studio? Worse still, he had made no mistake except that of do not have the ideal body type. It says in the documentation “Clint Eastwood, the last legend“ by Clélia Cohen, Burt Reynolds, a great friend of the actor, tells this incredible anecdote.
They fired me the same day they fired Clint Eastwood. They thought his Adam’s apple was too big. It was sticking out. He also had a chipped tooth that he wanted to get fixed. And (to them) he spoke too slowly. Afterward, I wondered what I would hear. They told me, “You just don’t have any talent.” -Burt Reynolds (Clint Eastwood, The Last Legend)
In the same documentation we find a Eastwood BBC Interviewthen return to this difficult time and the other reasons for his dismissal. “Back then, studios wanted doubles of their stars, but I didn’t look like one of their contract actors” he explains. “In the end they sent me away because they thought I wasn’t going anywhere.”
Success
Ultimately, Both players will be successful. Eastwood with the famous films of Sergio Leone (For a few dollars ; and for a few dollars more ; The good, the bad and the ugly) like the ones he will make himself. Burt Reynolds will be best known for various action and/or sports films, such as The Cannonball Team, Run after me, Sheriff or Delivery. The two actors will even both make headlines Raise your weapons! in 1984.
Reynolds and Eastwood also both starred in the series Alfred Hitchcock Presentsthe first in Escape to Sonoita by Stuart Rosenberg from 1960, the other in Human Interest Story by Norman Lloyd from 1959, next to Steve McQueen. A beautiful revenge on life!
