Clint Eastwood Says Viral Interview Is Fake, and He’s Mad About It

An interview with 95-year-old film legend Clint Eastwood recently blew up online after he sent some shots at Hollywood’s sequel and franchise film obsession. The problem, it appears, is that he never actually said what has been attributed to him. In fact, according to a statement he gave to Deadline (I mean…we’re pretty sure he actually gave this one, right?), he said that the entire interview that produced his viral shellacking of the film industry is “phony.” Let’s take a step back real quick. On May 30, an Austrian outlet called Kurier, which The Guardian reports has a circulation of about 100,000 readers, published an interview with Clint Eastwood, supposedly given right before his 95th birthday. In that interview, which frankly comes off as a pretty generic press tour conversation, Eastwood supposedly gave the following take when asked how the business has changed in recent years: I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like ‘Casablanca’ in small bungalows o ... Read full article.