This immense Hollywood star, crowned with numerous awards and now aged 94, is releasing his latest film, which could be the conclusion of his career.
There are celebrities who have navigated several decades in Hollywood, with a series of successes and sometimes a few failures, building a lasting reputation among spectators. So much so that we often speak of cinema “legends”. This American actor is one of them. He signs his last lap with (very probably) the final film of his career.
Clint Eastwood is a star who needs no introduction. Representative of a golden age of Hollywood, illustrious in numerous classics of the small and big screen, the one who played Inspector Harry and distinguished himself in Sergio Leone’s “trilogy of dollars” was multi -nominated and above all multi-awarded during his career. In total, he has won four Oscars thanks to his productions as a director: he won the statuettes for Best Film and Best Director twice, in 1993 for Ruthless and in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby.
Although Clint Eastwood is now 94 years old and has been an essential figure in the seventh art for nearly seven decades, he has not given up on directing new films. Filming of his 40th feature film took place at the end of 2023, with Nicholas Hoult (Skins, The Great) in the main role opposite Toni Colette, Zoey Deutch or Chris Messina. And the latter is about to be released in the cinema.
Juror #2this is the title of the feature film, already promises to be thrilling: while a man is a juror in a murder trial, he discovers that it is he who is at the origin of the crime. A moral dilemma then presents itself: will he hide his involvement and manipulate the jury to protect himself, or confess and surrender?
For a time, some American media suggested that Juror #2 would be the last film of Clint Eastwood’s career before he retired. This is what the Hollywood Reporter said in April 2023, explaining that the director was looking for his last project before leaving the movie sets, with his head held high. But nothing is completely certain yet, since the American filmmaker was still saying at the time of the release of Cry Macho in 2020 that he was “probably going to continue” cinema.
To the Los Angeles Times, he recently added: “I have nothing against other filmmakers, but perhaps I bring a different vision, and I don’t want to regret and ask myself ‘but why did I entrust this project to this director?'” In any case, the release of such a feature film remains an event for film buffs: it is this Wednesday October 30 that it is possible to see Juror #2 in French cinemas.