Press conferences for Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling,” have brought up questions of Eastwood’s end of the year release, “Gran Torino” (very odd that he’d release “Changeling” in October with Angelina Jolie and then the latter in December, but that still appears to be the plan so far).
Clint didn’t give too much away, but he did dish some more about his character,but he did dish some details.
Eastwood directs the film and stars as a racist Korean War veteran who reluctantly bonds with his Asian immigrant neighbor over his 1972 Gran Torino automobile. He says the film slams both prejudice and political correctness and describes his character as unflattering and controversial. “I’m a weirdo in it. I play a real racist. …It’s a great time in life (to do that) because, you know, what can they do to you once you’re past 70? There’s nothing they can do. But it also has redemption. This Hmong family moves in next door, and he has been in the Korean War, in the infantry, and looks down on Asian people and lumps everybody together. But finally they befriend him in his time of need because he has no relationship with his family.”
