The acting icon gives a bit more insight into his accidentally iconic RNC speech, and speaks about the quiet conservatives in show business.
For at least the next few months, Clint Eastwood’s most famous lines of dialogue will have come not while staring down the barrel of a gun, but at the empty seat of a chair.
Luckily, he doesn’t much seem to mind.
The 82-year old acting icon appeared on Fox News’ Hannity on Thursday night, to give his semi-regular take on the presidential election. As if he hasn’t answered enough questions about it, Eastwood was asked about the unusual speech he gave at the Republican National Convention, in which he traded dialogue with a chair, on he pretended President Obama was sitting.
“The chair idea, that just came out of the air. You know, I was sitting there. And the guy behind the stage said, here, you want to sit down. And I said, no, but why don’t you seek that out and sit it next to the podium? He says, oh, you want to sit down? I said, no, no, just put it there,” Eastwood explained. “And that’s where that idea just came — as we were doing it. So it was probably at the time I thought this is — this — that was really stupid. Why did I do that? But then afterwards, I thought, you know, people started coming out and saying, well, that was fun. And maybe a little fun was what I was looking for. I don’t know.”
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