14 DAY TRIAL // Ellen DeGeneres is just joking when she’s telling Clint Eastwood, on her most recent show, that he had such a quiet summer that his name barely made headlines. Below is a video of some of the topics they tackled in that interview.
The actor and director is now promoting a new movie but, because of his recent appearance at the Republican National Convention, he’s also forced to talk politics whether he likes it or not.
Eastwood, as must already be known, caused quite a ruckus with his unscripted speech at the Convention, where he yelled at an empty chair / conversed with an invisible Obama.
Speaking about politics, the Hollywood icon reveals that he’s not on the same page as Presidential candidate Mitt Romney as far as the gay marriage issue is concerned.
As he sees it, there are much more serious issues to focus on right now than fight on whether two people of the same gender have the right to marry or not.
“The condition of society right now, with the high unemployment rates and the tremendous debt we're increasing and the government spending, we'd think there'd be [many more worthy issues] to think about [rather] that worrying about gay marriage,” Eastwood says.
He also believes that the US would function much better if everybody just left everybody else alone and not interfere.
“You're socially liberal, leave everybody alone, but you believe in fiscal responsibility and you believe in government staying out of your life,” he says.
In the same interview, Eastwood talks about his family’s much criticized and ridiculed reality show, “Mrs. Eastwood & Company,” which premiered on E! this year.
He never wanted to be a part of it but he could not prevent his wife and daughters from being a part of a reality series if that’s what they wanted, he explains.
His only condition was to be left out as much as possible, which is precisely what happened.
Sadly, that did not prevent some fans for holding him directly responsible for the trainwreck that the series turned out to be.
