Eastwood: “I won’t be vice-president”

I have to agree with Clint Eastwood. Angelina Jolie is beautiful AND talented. I’ve always thought so.

He said as much in an interview with movie journalist Lillian Ross this weekend, at the Director’s Guild of America event. “I’ve always admired her talent. She’s somewhat hampered sometimes by having this gorgeous face, the most gorgeous face on the planet. But she is a great talent, and it would be easy to overlook that, except after seeing this, you realize that she is this great, talented person.”

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He’s talking about Changeling, the dark, true-story drama set in ’20’s Los Angeles about a mother whose son is returned after a kidnapping – only it’s not her son. Eastwood describes it as “a very tough story, it’s sort of an adult horror story. It’s what this woman had been put through by the Establishment.”

The subject of politics also came up in the interview. Eastwood says he won’t be vice-president. Yes, that’s right. He won’t. “I was at a function, and a bunch of political types were there. And John McCain was there. He came up to say hello, I said, ‘Look, don’t even ask it. I will not be your vice president. I have to be on the top of the ticket.’”

He noted that the vice-president doesn’t get much to do, and it’s not a very appealing job. And really, if Clint Eastwood went to Washington, I couldn’t bear it if he wasn’t president. In fact, that sounds like a pretty good idea. I bet he could clean up the world right good.

Image: Clint Eastwood, Changeling, Universal Pictures, 2008

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