Clint Eastwood’s theory as to why Westerns rejected him to start very funny

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Clint Eastwood started his career playing bit parts in monster movies, at least two of them for director Jack Arnold. Played a funny laboratory technician in the sequel “creature from the Black Lagoon” “Revenge of the Creature” in 1955And it was a pilot hidden in Arnold’s “Tarantula” the same year. He was in comedy films, war photos, and the adventures of a globe trotting, establishing his career and experiencing his versatility. He also worked, very short, for general TV, and had bit parts in a few popular shows from the mid -50s.

It would not until 1959, when he landed the role of Rowdy Yates in the popular series “Rawhide,” that he would become associated with Westerns. While “Rawhide” was in his penultifty last season in 1965, Eastwood was thrown by Leone’s Sergio His Italian Western “and Fistful of Dollars,” who would go on to become one of Eastwood’s best films. The actor’s tactical performance left a deep mark on his career, and has been associated with the genre ever since. (At least as an actor – as a director, he has proved more versatile.)

In those early years, however, Eastwood still had to create identity, and, perhaps amazingly, it was considered something of a beautiful boy. In fact, back in 2015, Talk to The Hollywood Reporter. To provide a timeline, Eastwood’s general contract ended in October 1955, just shortly after his “Revenge of the Creature” gig. Biographer Patrick McGilligan, in his book “Clint: The Life and Legend,” Distracts that Eastwood is often criticized for being something of amateur, and for talking through gravel teeth too often.

Eastwood also remembered that he could not have any parts in the day’s commandments because, perhaps surprisingly, the casting directors thought he looked excessively as Gary Cooper. And if one Gary Cooper was already out in the world, Universal did not require cheap side effect on Universal.