Growing up in the shadow of a famous parent may be a daunting challenge, and Scott Eastwood knows
it firsthand. Although he's the son of Clint Eastwood, one of Hollywood's biggest male stars,
Scott never received any support from his distinguished father. "Father declined" stated his
birth certificate, meaning that Clint's romance with Scott's mother remained secret for years.
Despite the fact that Clint remained focused on his career more rather than being a father,
Scott never held it against him. Stay tuned while we dive deep into their unique father-son
relationship and the most important lesson Clint ever taught his son — "Everything must be earned."
Why didn't Clint help raise his baby boy? Why didn't he keep in touch with Scott for so long?
We know for sure that when Eastwood started a secret affair with Scott's mother, he also had
a prolonged romance with Sondra Locke . At that time, she was an established Hollywood actress
and a promising director. Sondra also worked with Clint on the film set in multiple projects.
As their love went soar, the actress claimed its devastating consequences. An affair with Clint
ruined her professional and personal life. What's more, Sondra filed two lawsuits against Eastwood.
In the first one, she demanded palimony after their separation. In the second, she sued Clint
for fraud. These attempts to restore justice were in vain, and a distinguished actress disappeared
from the scene. Toxic relationships with Eastwood burned her professional life to the ground.
Perhaps, that was why Clint neglected his parenting responsibilities for so long? Unwanted
affair with Scott's mother, Jacelyn Reeves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MVZ4laqvp0
- 0.23), was doomed to remain secret while Eastwood faced serious allegations.
Living up to the consequences of secret romance could badly hurt his reputation.
Years went by, and the impact of the 80s scandal faded away.
At that time, Scott tried his luck in the US and lived in California during high school.
He didn't go by his father's name and prefered to be addressed as Scott Reeves. "My dad never
gave me a cent. He made me work for everything," he said in the interview with Men's Health. And
although childhood wasn't all sunshine and roses for Scott, he didn't take advantage of dad's fame
or influence to get what he wanted. But we'd like to ask — was it possible for an illegitimate son
to find support from his influential father? Given the scandalous affairs of Eastwood, it
seems that maintaining relationships with the son could hurt the reputation of the legendary actor.
Relationships between the father and the son grew closer when Scott moved to the US, but that was a
bumpy road. In the recent interview, Scott shared that Clint once punched him in the face during
a conflict. What had happened that the acclaimed actor got physically aggressive with his son? When
he was 16, Scott went to a party with his younger sister, who was also Clint's daughter. In the
interview with GQ, Scott recalled, "I had taken my younger sister, who was, like, 14, to this party.
I left, maybe to go get beer with the guys. And I left her and I didn't think about it at the time.
Later, Dad found out that I'd left her there." After finding the truth about that story, Clint
was boiling with anger. He slammed his 16-year-old son against a wall and punched him in the face.
Scott should never leave his sister alone.
Scott didn’t hold a grudge against Clint. He shared the details of the conflict,
“He popped me and said, ‘You don’t ever leave your sister at a party.
EVER.’ And it was very old-school, very old-school of him.”
Clint’s parenting style was one of the ways children learned the difference between
acceptable and forbidden behavior and explored a thin line between them. Scott described it as
“If you did something wrong, you were going to get punished. I learnt quickly – you don’t do that.”
Scott also holds lots of great memories from the time spent with his father.
He links the earliest memories that set the tone for his relationships with his father
to visiting the Space Cowboys set and riding in a helicopter with Clint. "As a younger kid,
there was kind of an aura of greatness. Like, he's my hero. Now, I think every opportunity
is an opportunity to hear another good story," Scott said in the conversation with GQ Australia.
As they grew closer, Clint introduced Scott into his famous life,
sharing unique stories of the past and paying more attention to what was going on in his son’s life.
In the interview with Esquire, the award-winning actor said, "He was a pretty good kid. Not much
of a problem. His mother gave him a lot of values, because she's a good person.”
But we remember the relationships between the father and the son were supposed to stand the
test of time before these words were said. And it's been a long journey to the point
when he could reconcile old traumas and claim his gratitude towards a career-oriented parent.
The father's recognition cost Scott years of toil, perseverance, and courage.
He wasn't going to rely on his father's money and made sure to work hard to make his own cash.
He wanted to be independent and didn't want to have to rely on his father's finances. He
recently described all of the character-building experiences, "I may never be the best actor in
the world, but I'll be the hardest working." Given the hardships of Scott's childhood,
we have no doubts that he proved himself a devoted and compassionate professional and a great son.
Owing to his recent appearances in Suicide Squad and Wrath of Man, Scott has now firmly established
himself in Hollywood. And it happened primarily owing to his perseverance, not because of father’s
protection. Clint wasn’t going to help his son get into the business just because they were related.
In fact, Scott was auditioned to play even minor roles in projects shot by his father.
At the early onset of his career, he was paid the Screen Actors Guild minimum.
Maybe that struggle to earn his place in the son made Scott so hard-working and resilient?
As an aspiring actor who recently became a celebrity, Scott described his career philosophy,
"You're a passenger in a vehicle and you're replaceable. Interchangeable.
There's a million guys who could fucking do what I do, and probably millions who could do
it better than me. I'm lucky." We're sure that Scott made a hit not only because of
his striking resemblance with the father but also owing to his talent and perseverance.
But Scott's life was also rife with traumatic tragedies that went beyond his childhood.
Similarly to his father, Scott is known for his love life and reportedly had affairs with
Nina Dobrev and Jana Kramer. He prefers keeping romances private and focuses primarily on his
career. However, Scott once shared a tragic story of his beloved partner's death. In the 2010s,
he dated a girl who died in a car accident — this event left Scott heartbroken ever since.
"I've lost friends before; I've lost some great friends. But, I had never lost someone I had been
really intimate with, you know, like in that way, in a relationship. I think that really
affected me in a way that... I don't know. Maybe it's made it harder for me to date."
It seems that the accident made the actor more career-oriented. Scott once said, "I'm trying
to get out of the pretty-boy thing. I want to do what Brad Pitt did — get a little down and dirty.
Hollywood loves to put you in a box: 'You're the good-looking military guy."
And we hope that the tragic death of a beloved one wouldn't hurt Scott any longer.
Scott's story isn't about overnight success. It wasn't easy for him to build a rapport with
an unfamiliar father and distant father who was absent throughout his whole childhood.
Instead, it was a prolonged struggle with Clint's cold-hearted discipline.
Knocking on Hollywood's door and receiving an answer can be a blessing for an aspiring actor,
but Scott worked hard to gain that recognition and received little support from his father. Besides,
the tragic love story made Scott more aware of the pain and intimate loss that made a deep mark on
his romantic relationships. Today, Scott strives to re-imagine himself in new career endeavors and
find a path of his own, casting off the shadow of a distinguished father. Will that be possible,
given their resemblance and tighter relationships? After all, Scott remains grateful to his hero
father and his discipline-oriented style of parenting. "My father's definitely old-school.
And he raised me with integrity — to be placed on time, show up, and work hard." Of course,
punching somebody in the face may be perceived as a cruel and harsh way to teach them a lesson.
It's definitely a controversial attitude towards bringing somebody up. But despite everything that
happened between Scott and Clint, both are willing to cherish their emotional bond and keep in touch.
It wasn't an easy ride for Scott to find himself in the industry,
especially to deserve his father's respect and recognition. But he managed to live up to high
expectations of Clint, making it possible for them to find rapport and see each other in a new light.
For Scott, it's been time for finding a father he rarely saw in childhood. As Scott recently said
about his dad, "I couldn't be more proud of him. I couldn't be more inspired by the films he makes."
We hope that one day Scott will hear his father saying something similar.
But before that happens, he should prove himself to the influential dad every day.