Clint Eastwood and the fake Frankenstein interview

The Austrian newspaper Courrier has published an interview with Clint Eastwood to celebrate the actor and director's 95th birthday. There's just one problem: the filmmaker denies having given it. freelance established in the United States. According to her testimony, throughout her career as a journalist she met with Eastwood up to eighteen times, and the text she handed over—passing it off as a fresh interview—was actually a rehash of clippings and excerpts. Courrier He has apologized because the reader has been led to believe something that was not true.

Beyond the anecdote, the matter illuminates a painful truth: we talk about the magic of cinema, but the magic of film journalism is even more magical. Because too often there's a catch. One of the common problems is that A-list celebrities make so-called "magic tricks." junkets, which are joint interviews with a handful of journalists. As it tends to be a heterogeneous group, the questions are also heterogeneous, and the time is too limited for an organic and orderly conversation to emerge. There's an unwritten rule that anyone can use any answer (even if it's asked by another reporter), but professionals work tirelessly to craft an interview that has a minimum common thread and isn't a collection of disconnected patches. The journalist contributing to the Courrier has gone a step further and has reused material from his personal fridge, as a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. This defunct association He was accused of setting up the Golden Globes as a way to attract great actors to the gala with the intention of taking the selfie. and, apparently, extract two sentences from them that its members could regurgitate years later in the form of an interview. It is normal that Eastwood makes a grunt that not even his character in Gran Torino.