Scott Eastwood is reflecting on what it was like to grow up with a super famous parent.
During a recent interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the 40-year-old actor shared how his father, Clint Eastwood, protected him and his siblings from fame, and how his experiences visiting his dad on set shaped how he views the industry today.
“I’ve seen some behavior in this business that is shocking. That would not go in other industries,” he said, with Rogan adding that since they are the star of the project, some actors feel they can treat others however they want.
Scott then added that his father never acted that way, and that his philosophy was always “put your boots on [and], go to work, man.”
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“I think I was lucky in some ways because I got to see it growing up and got to see like how it’s bulls—,” he said of certain behaviors on modern movie sets.
While Eastwood said he got a peek at bad behavior on set when he was younger and visiting his iconic dad on set, the “Wrath of Man” star said his father “did a really good job of protecting” him and his siblings from the pitfalls that come with child stardom.
He brought it up after he and Rogan began talking about child stars who found fame at a really young age, saying, “you get stunted in your growth” when you get famous too young.
“I mean, kudos to my dad, cause he did a really good job of protecting us from that and very private,” he said. “We didn’t live in LA, we we lived in Carmel. It was a very…as normal as it could be, in the sense that he was like, ‘No, you just you need to be a normal child and learn how the world works.'”
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While his father didn’t want his kids to pursue an acting career as children, Scott went on to become a successful actor as an adult, starring in films such as “Regretting You,” “Fury,” “Suicide Squad” and others.
When discussing his acting process, Scott shared that he and his dad are both not into method acting, saying he treats acting “as a job” and that he isn’t “one of these crazy psychos” that stay in character during the duration of filming the project.
“My dad was never like that,” he said. “He was like, it’s a job. Like go to work, do the best you can, put in the reps, make sure you know your s— and you come prepared, and you have something interesting, but leave it at the door.”
In his new movie, “Lucky Strike,” Scott portrays a soldier who finds himself trapped behind enemy lines following the Battle of the Bulge fought between the United States and Germany during World War II.
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He then must walk through 20 miles of German-occupied territory to get to safety, with just his backpack and a radio.
“You know, it’s the only war that, you know, everybody knew there was a common enemy to the world,” he told NPR in June about WWII. “There was, you know, evil being done, and it was a fight for justice. You know, other wars, I think there’s a lot of ambiguity. There’s a lot of, ‘were we supposed to be there,’ [and] ‘why are we doing this?’ But that war, I think, resonates with most because it’s so clear, right and wrong.”
