Hollywood film legend Clint Eastwood is one of those rare openly conservative celebrities. He’s also not a fan of political correctness. He made the point quite clearly in a recent appearance.
The Hollywood Reporter has the story:
Clint Eastwood Decries P.C. Culture in Cannes: “We’ve Lost Our Sense of Humor”
The director took part in a master class as he visited the fest for a 25th anniversary screening of ‘Unforgiven.’
As far as Clint Eastwood is concerned, society’s current obsession with political correctness began with his 1971 movie Dirty Harry.
Coming in the wake of his three Sergio Leone Westerns that began with 1964’s A Fistful of Dollars, the violent San Francisco-set cop story consolidated Eastwood’s growing stardom, and he makes no apologies for it.
“It was far-out at that time, so I brought it to [director] Don [Siegel], and he liked it,” Eastwood recalled Sunday during a visit to the Cannes Film Festival. “A lot of people thought it was politically incorrect. That was at the beginning of the era that we’re in now with political correctness. We are killing ourselves, we’ve lost our sense of humor. But I thought it was interesting and it was daring.”
That was about as political as Eastwood got as he discussed his films in a master class, answering questions posed by Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan.
He’s right. Lots of professional comedians won’t even play college campuses anymore due to the problem.
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