Clint Eastwood has been keeping an extremely low profile in recent months, and friends and family are affording him the space he wants while still hoping he’ll be back to his old self in due course – but only when he’s good and ready.
“Clint has slowed everything down in 2024 and totally stayed home for the limited rollout of his most recent movie Juror No. 2, which turned out better than anybody expected,” a longtime friend of the Hollywood icon exclusively explains to Closer.
Clint, at 94 years young, has been an industry powerhouse for decades and has directed an astonishing 16 movies in the last 20 years, not to mention writing, producing and starring in even more.
“I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that,” the Western legend said of his break-neck pace. His ethic completely aligns with how the Gran Torino star views the world, as he once told Esquire in 2008 that the “smaller details are less important,” allowing him to write, film, edit and release almost a movie per year. The actor insists: “Let’s get on with the important stuff.”
With his latest directorial endeavor, Juror No. 2, Clint seems to have hit it out of the park. The Observer’s Rex Reed said the nonagenarian director “delivers relentless tension and moral complexity in a film that could mark a spectacular swan song.”
While the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis says, “if this one proves, as rumors have it, that it’s his last as a director, he is going out with a bang.”
The insider couldn’t agree more, telling, “if it is indeed his final movie, he’d be going out on a high point,” but is wary of giving Clint the final 10 count just yet. “That’s the thing,” the pal continues, “even though the media has consistently declared this movie as Clint’s ‘farewell,’ Clint doesn’t have a terminal disease and isn’t ‘dying’ per se. He’s just very old and made the conscious decision to slow everything down this year and step away from the promotional and marketing work around this movie.”
Maintaining the work schedule he’s been able to build over the past few decades had required the screen legend to spend the lion’s share of his time in L.A., but the source says that recently he’s been spending more and more of his time hanging out with his family at his Hawaii vacation home, definitely signaling a change of pace.
Still, the insider emphasizes, “Clint is NOT personally saying he’s done with the business or even that he’s retired,” adding, “He’s taken breaks and time-outs from his career before.” However, Clint’s friend does say that “this time feels different, even if Clint himself refuses to admit it.”
Without a formal farewell, hope is high Clint will ultimately continue his career into the future.
“Nothing would make the people who love Clint in Hollywood happier than if he suddenly re-emerged with a new film or acting project,” the source continues, “especially after people were so impressed with Juror No. 2.”
Clint Eastwood has been keeping an extremely low profile in recent months, and friends and family are affording him the space he wants while still hoping he’ll be back to his old self in due course – but only when he’s good and ready.
“Clint has slowed everything down in 2024 and totally stayed home for the limited rollout of his most recent movie Juror No. 2, which turned out better than anybody expected,” a longtime friend of the Hollywood icon exclusively explains to Closer.
Clint, at 94 years young, has been an industry powerhouse for decades and has directed an astonishing 16 movies in the last 20 years, not to mention writing, producing and starring in even more.
“I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that,” the Western legend said of his break-neck pace. His ethic completely aligns with how the Gran Torino star views the world, as he once told Esquire in 2008 that the “smaller details are less important,” allowing him to write, film, edit and release almost a movie per year. The actor insists: “Let’s get on with the important stuff.”
With his latest directorial endeavor, Juror No. 2, Clint seems to have hit it out of the park. The Observer’s Rex Reed said the nonagenarian director “delivers relentless tension and moral complexity in a film that could mark a spectacular swan song.”
While the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis says, “if this one proves, as rumors have it, that it’s his last as a director, he is going out with a bang.”
The insider couldn’t agree more, telling, “if it is indeed his final movie, he’d be going out on a high point,” but is wary of giving Clint the final 10 count just yet. “That’s the thing,” the pal continues, “even though the media has consistently declared this movie as Clint’s ‘farewell,’ Clint doesn’t have a terminal disease and isn’t ‘dying’ per se. He’s just very old and made the conscious decision to slow everything down this year and step away from the promotional and marketing work around this movie.”
Maintaining the work schedule he’s been able to build over the past few decades had required the screen legend to spend the lion’s share of his time in L.A., but the source says that recently he’s been spending more and more of his time hanging out with his family at his Hawaii vacation home, definitely signaling a change of pace.
Still, the insider emphasizes, “Clint is NOT personally saying he’s done with the business or even that he’s retired,” adding, “He’s taken breaks and time-outs from his career before.” However, Clint’s friend does say that “this time feels different, even if Clint himself refuses to admit it.”
Without a formal farewell, hope is high Clint will ultimately continue his career into the future.
“Nothing would make the people who love Clint in Hollywood happier than if he suddenly re-emerged with a new film or acting project,” the source continues, “especially after people were so impressed with Juror No. 2.”