The political views of Clint Eastwood, who directed Meryl Streep toward an Oscar nomination for her work on the 1995 drama, are apparently rubbing his former leading lady the wrong way – enough that she vowed to “correct” the way the 86-year old views the upcoming presidential race.
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Meryl Streep’s exuberant scream at the beginning of her Democratic National Convention speech was the talk of the Internet two weeks ago but the actress said that at the time, she wasn’t even aware that she’d delivered a viral moment. And you’re going to make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president, and she will be a great president. I’m shocked. I really am. “I’ll have to correct that”.
The 67-year-old Oscar victor said that despite people like Mr. Eastwood, she is confident that the American people will elect Mrs. Clinton in a landslide.
“I think there is a reckoning”, she said.
“I didn’t know that”, Streep said. “I really am. Because he’s more-I would have thought he would be more sensitive than that”.
Streep told Variety that people in large groups, and at Trump rallies in particular, often behave differently than they would in private. “The aggregate of everybody’s emotion, it’s such a powerful thing”.
Eastwood, who once portrayed a racist codger in the 2008 film Gran Torino, told Esquire that people need to “just f***ing get over” the GOP presidential candidate’s racist remarks.
In his get-off-my-lawn Esquire chat, Eastwood, whose bit with an empty chair at the 2012 RNC left many scratching their heads, also seemed to defend Trump’s racist crusade against Judge Gonzalo Curiel, blaming it on the epidemic of “political correctness” in America.
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‘Everybody’s walking on eggshells. “So have all of them”, Eastwood said of Trump and his inflammatory and oft-criticized rhetoric.
