Clint Eastwood was spotted filming Juror No. 2 on Tuesday in Savannah, Georgia, indicating that he is not ready to slow down.
The 93-year-old actor-turned-director was filming a scene for the courtroom drama, starring Nicholas Hoult, 33, and Toni Collette, 51.
The moviemaker’s ‘final film’ has been described as an attempt to find ‘one last project in order to ride off into the sunset with his head held high.’ However, neither Eastwood nor Juror No. 2’s studio Warner Bros. have said he plans to retire after completing the project.
Eastwood previously appeared on set with Hoult in June, shortly after the writer’s strike began but before his cast was forced to halt working owing to the recently concluded actor’s strike.
Photos from Savannah station WSAV show the director with the clean-shaven appearance he has largely maintained for the past few decades, but he was seen with a startling bushy white beard while filming on Tuesday.
Still going strong: Clint Eastwood showed he’s not ready to slow down yet when he was spotted filming his upcoming film Juror No. 2 on Tuesday in Savannah, Georgia
The 93-year-old actor-turned-director was filming a scene for the courtroom drama starring Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette (pictured).
Eastwood was seen conversing with members of his film team while dressed casually in a black windbreaker and charcoal trousers.
He wore a pair of comfortable Hoka trainers in black, as did many other celebrities.
The Million Dollar Baby star wore headphones over his shaggy white hair and had a full white beard.
Eastwood is no stranger to facial hair, having sported beards in Sergio Leone’s iconic Man with No Name trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) and later Westerns such as High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Pale Rider.
However, he has largely remained clean-shaven in his film roles and public appearances in recent decades.
Clint’s mane looks to have grown while he waited out the concurrent writer and actor strikes, which concluded earlier this month.
Despite his elderly age, he appeared fully engaged as he planned a shot with his crew.
He appeared intrigued while watching footage from the shoot alongside his longtime camera operator, Stephen Campanelli, who initially worked with him on 1995’s romance classic The Bridges of Madison County.
Taking it easy: Eastwood was seen chatting with some of his film crew while wearing a casual black windbreaker with charcoal trousers
New look: The Million Dollar Baby star had headphones on over his shaggy white hair, and he sported a full white beard, an oddity for him in his later years
Change of pace: Eastwood is no stranger to beards, such as in 1966’s The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (pictured), but he has mostly shown off a clean-shaven look in recent decades
Checking the take: He looked particularly intrigued while watching footage from the shoot next to his longtime camera operator Stephen Campanelli (L)
Is it the end? Juror No. 2 has been dubbed his ‘last picture,’ with The Hollywood Reporter characterizing it as an attempt to find ‘one last project in order to ride out into the sunset with his head held high.’ Neither Eastwood nor Warner Bros. have declared it’s his final film.
Nicholas Hoult, Eastwood’s lead actor, joined him on the set.
The X-Men star wore a black sport coat, a pale gray T-shirt underneath, and khaki pants with a brown leather belt.
His dark hair was styled short with a side part, and he was wearing brown suede shoes.
Hoult plays a juror in a murder trial who realizes he may have killed the victim during a reckless driving incident, not the person on trial.
As his guilt grows, he tries to guide his fellow jurors away from condemning the man while also avoiding incriminating himself in front of the prosecutor, played by Toni Collette.
DailyMail.com received video of Hoult’s character resting on a park bench, likely near the courthouse, when Collette’s prosecutor approaches and sits next to him.
The Australian actress looked professional in a gray skirt and matching suit coat.
Toni stayed warm on the chilly, overcast day in a pair of brown Ugg boots, but it’s unclear whether her character was supposed to wear them or if her feet were conveniently out of frame.
Juror No. 2 co-stars Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina, and Leslie Bibb alongside Hoult and Collette.
Dressed for court: Joining Eastwood on set was his lead actor Nicholas Hoult. The X-Men star was costumed in a black sport coat with a pale gray T-shirt underneath and khaki pants with a brown leather belt
Terrible position: Hoult plays a juror sitting for a murder trial who realizes he may be the one who killed the victim during a reckless driving incident, rather than the person on trial
Squaring the circle: He tries to steer his fellow jury members away from convicting the man while attempting not to incriminate himself in front of the prosecutor, played by Toni Collette
Stacked cast: In addition to Hoult and Collette, Juror No. 2 also stars Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina and Leslie Bibb
Still going: Juror No. 2 marks Eastwood’s 40th film as director (41st if you count 1984’s Tightrope, which he is alleged to have directed without credit after disagreeing with its original director).
Juror No. 2 is Eastwood’s 40th picture as a director (41st if you include 1984’s Tightrope, which he is alleged to have directed without credit after fighting with the original director).
His previous film was the neo-Western movie Cry Lonesome, which he also starred in.
The film was deemed a step down from his previous feature, the renowned historical drama Richard Jewell, about the same-named security guard who saved many lives by discovering a bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and evacuating much of the local throng.
The explosion killed one person and injured 100 others, and Jewell was first suspected before being cleared.
Eastwood began his acting career in the mid-1950s with a run of minor film and television parts, many of which went uncredited, before making a name for himself as a series regular on Rawhide.
As his television career appeared to be coming to an end, Eastwood moved to Italy and Spain to work with Italian director Sergio Leone on three blockbuster Spaghetti Westerns.
The Dollars trilogy’s success paved the way for several prominent Westerns and thrillers in the United States, including one of his most successful, Dirty Harry (1971), directed by one of his teachers, Don Siegel.
Eastwood made his directorial debut with the psychological thriller Play Misty For Me, the same year he portrayed the quick-shooting detective, and he has directed about one picture per year since then.
Humble beginnings: Eastwood began his acting career in the mid-’50s with a string of small film and television roles before he made a name for himself with a series regular role on Rawhide; seen in 1956
The success of his Dollars trilogy with Sergio Leone led to larger roles, like in 1971’s Dirty Harry (above), and that year he made his directorial debut with Play Misty For Me.
He’s known for filming swiftly and efficiently, with most of his sequences having just one or two takes to please him, and Juror No. 2 is likely to keep the same fast pace.
Due to the continuing coronavirus outbreak, Eastwood took a longer than normal hiatus between his current picture and his last, Cry Macho.
That film may have also suffered at the box office due to its September 2021 release date.
The film had a simultaneous 31-day availability on HBO Max and in cinemas, which undoubtedly encouraged some people to stay at home and watch it for free.