“Everyone begged me not to do it”

The well-known actor has never stood out for making risky decisions, but when he did, he got it right.

If you think of actors characterized by accepting roles of rude and serious menit is very likely that the name of Clint Eastwood. However, like most actors, Eastwood has also sometimes gone out of his way. default, giving a chance to different characters in films far from the western genre.

Clint Eastwood is one of the most recognized actors in history

Some movies like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Dirty Harry (1971) or Gran Torino (2008), brought the actor to success, boxing him into a specific style of character, which made him one of the first options to play the character of Rambo. Nevertheless, In his filmography we can also find some films that, despite being something striking, became a triumph. One of them, and probably the most notable, is Hard to Peel (1978).

The well-known actor has never stood out for making risky decisions, but when he did, he got it right.

In Hard to Peeldirected by James Fargowe see Clint Eastwood starring in a comedy in which plays Philo Beddoea truck driver that He is dedicated to street fights and He is always accompanied by his partner Clyde, an orangutan. With this film, the actor was able to show his versatility by acting in scenes full of humor in which his main interlocutor is a monkey.

Clint Eastwood in Hardcore

However, When he received the proposal, no one advised him to accept it.a, if not quite the opposite. During an interview in The Guardianthe controversial Eastwood He confessed that his surroundings were not convinced with the film, but he wanted to do something different and surprise. This is what the actor said:

I’ve made some strange decisions over the years. My agent, and everyone, begged me not to do that movie. It was after Dirty Harry and I had done a lot of action movies. For me, it was about reaching a younger generation, making a movie that kids could watch, a little less foul-mouthed

The orangutan Manis played Clyde in Hardcore

The truth is that ended up being a successso hard to peel It became Clint Eastwood’s first film to surpass $100 million in earnings. collected on the big screen. A couple of years later, The actor decided to make a sequel that It also performed well at the box office, but had worse review.

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