Clint Eastwood is one of the actors that marked the history of the Italian western, from the meeting with Sérgio Leão his life changed and on the occasion of the documentary about the director produced by his daughter Raffaella, the actor in an interview with Corriere della Sera spoke about his relationship and how the meeting influenced his future career. He also recalled Ennio Morricone, to whom he presented one of the two Oscars won by the composer: “No one has used music like him, he changes the style, the approach, his melodies seem to add phrases to the scripts, they are sounds that speak”.
The first meeting with Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone saw him on TV and decided that Clint Eastwood was the right man to become the protagonist of his films, their first meeting was in Italy: “At the time I didn’t speak a word of Italian and Sergio didn’t speak a word of English. We understood each other through gestures. We talked about cinema, I met his family. But we were focused on the movie.” A promising start that would have marked the actor’s life forever: “I didn’t know that he would be the man who would influence me the most as a director. It made me love irony and love for landscapes.”
Clint Eastwood’s Career After Leaving Leone
Leone was a revolutionary director, with him the western changed its face: “This news that nothing can happen in a western was a revolutionary thing. These films are part of the history of cinema, they seem to have been made today, they don’t look old, dated”. The partnership with the filmmaker, however, ended with the desire to try new cinematic experiences:
With Sergio we didn’t separate, we took philosophically different paths. Mine are very different sets from hers, I quickly snap a few takes. I don’t even mean action, engine; I say, folks, if you’re ready, go. I turned to more personal stories, he loved the spectacular. From Sérgio I remember the words that made me a better actor: hold the imagination, the imagination of children.
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