{"id":516779,"date":"2026-06-03T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/516779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:45:14","slug":"clint-eastwoods-son-confirms-emotional-life-change-for-dad-at-96-a-lot-of-good-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/516779\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood’s son confirms emotional life change for dad at 96: ‘A lot of good memories’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to say goodbye! Clint Eastwood<\/a> is officially retiring from movie making at the grand age of 96.<\/p>\n

His son, Kyle Eastwood, confirmed the news to France Info\u00a0<\/a>when he said: “I’ve been very lucky to be able to work with him on a lot of films. It was a great experience for me.”<\/p>\n

Before adding: “I have a lot of good memories of working with him. Now he’s retired.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Clint<\/p>\n

Clint with his sons Scott and Kyle (WireImage via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Kyle is a successful musician and has contributed scores to several of his father’s movies, including Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gran Torino\u00a0and Invictus.<\/p>\n

The news about Clint \u2014 who turned 96 on May 31\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 may surprise many of his fans who thought he’d never hang up his movie-making hat.<\/p>\n

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    In his own words, Clint once said:\u00a0“I love what I do, why should I stop? I’ll say goodbye without saying goodbye.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Now, his son as said it for him.<\/p>\n

    Last movie?\"clint<\/p>\n

    Clint’s son confirmed the news (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

    Clint was last seen behind the camera creating the 2024 movie Juror #2.<\/p>\n

    It was widely speculated to be his final film at the time, but as promised, Clint did not confirm this, but simply slipped out of the spotlight.<\/p>\n

    Quiet life\"Portrait<\/p>\n

    Clint has always loved his life in Carmel (Getty)<\/p>\n

    Clint resides away from the bright lights of Hollywood, despite his entertainment career.<\/p>\n

    His home is the Californian town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Clint raised many of his eight children<\/a> on his ranch in Carmel where he was elected as mayor in 1986 and held the political position for two years.<\/p>\n

    What he’s said about aging\"Split<\/p>\n

    Clint is proud to be getting older (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

    Clint has always seen aging as a privilege. In 1997, he told CBS News<\/a>:\u00a0“I think you have to enjoy getting older.\u00a0That’s the most important factor. If you sit around and think, ‘Well, at 21, I was doing this,’ or ‘at 31′ or what have you.’<\/p>\n

    “A lot of people maybe do their best work when they’re 40 and then tail off. But I think that’s a mental attitude.”<\/p>\n

    His career highlights\"Clint<\/p>\n

    Clint in A Fistful of Dollars (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

    Clint began acting in 1950 and reached worldwide fame thanks to Sergio Leone’s westerns, especially the trilogy consisting of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    He carved out success not only as the star of movies, but as a brilliant director.<\/p>\n

    Amongst the Dirty Harry legend’s many accolades; Clint won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture for Unforgiven\u00a0and repeated the feat with Million Dollar Baby.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s time to say goodbye! Clint Eastwood is officially retiring from movie making at the grand age of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[223640,18,117,2445,19,17,223641,327],"class_list":["post-516779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-clint","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-getty-images","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kyle-eastwood","tag-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116687191296988691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}