The casting that would save Clint Eastwood’s career was a “fluke”
Beginnings.
Sergio Leone
The iconic role Henry Fonda almost turned down: “I am your boy”
He would later call the director one of the greats.
What film stock was ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ shot on?
This unique film stock helped give the ‘Dollars Trilogy’ its distinct visual style.
The one movie Clint Eastwood wishes he could delete from history: “I was crazy enough to try anything”
“That was not as pleasant an experience as I was used to.”
Quentin Tarantino names his three favourite westerns of all time: “The single greatest storyteller”
Three classics of the genre.
Quentin Tarantino names cinema’s only perfect trilogy
The films of Sergio Leone have greatly influenced Tarantino’s work.
How was Clint Eastwood cast as the ‘Man with No Name’ in Sergio Leone’s ‘Dollars’ trilogy?
He wasn’t first choice for the role.
How Sergio Leone almost pissed away his chance to work with Robert De Niro
“It was kind of a sloppy thing.”
