Joe Rogan & Scott Eastwood talk about Acting, Hollywood Politics

Hello freak bitches. But hey, I did want to ask something so When you're growing up was there pressure because your dad was Clint Eastwood Did you and then you said you wanted to be an actor you knew was that? I know we're going back to it, but it's good good question Well, I think I think I always wanted to be a tell stories. I don't know if I necessarily know I want to be an actor Mm-hmm. I think as I get older I realize it's more about telling stories I just sort of fell into the acting I was okay. Well, this could be a way I could get in I could I could go into So you just enjoy the entertainment process like creating something that people can be entertained by and enjoy Yeah, exactly telling a story that you know people can relate to laugh cry, whatever Do you think you'll go the road to your dad and like maybe do some directing and writing and things along? Yeah Yeah, that's a plan. That's the plan, you know Taking control of your own career Is is good and it's also you you know, you tell the stories you want to tell Yeah we were talking about this before the podcast that the world of the actor is very difficult and a lot of people like accuse actors of Being fake and I think one of the reasons for their statistic. Yeah, that's that for sure but one of the reasons for the accusing them of being fake is that they always have to Put on the best show like as far as their behavior and the way they act and think and their opinions because they're constantly Trying to get cast and things And it's all about getting to people like you and politicking and and we were talking also about like you kind of have to have liberal sensibilities Like in this town if you if you're a right going together. Does that even make sense? It seems like they contradict each other liberal sensibilities It's one reason that I moved I moved out of LA is you know years ago I just I got sick of yeah, there are great. They're great people in LA Yeah, people and you know, I'm from California. So I feel have a you know, there's a place in my heart here But I got it at LA because you know if you meet a hundred people in LA you might you know I mean 95 that are full of shit and you know five good ones And and I think you're too generous Everyone I always always I always judge it when when I meet somebody and I'm having a conversation with them and I ask how they're Doing you know, I mean an actor or something. How you been? Oh, you're working on it. Cool And you know a lot of times they're just there's waiting for their turn to talk. You're not even listening to you Yeah, they're just sort of you know, did you you know, they're not gonna return that and say oh, yeah What are you doing? What you know, what's going on? Yeah, you don't feel like a sincere conversation. No, not at all Yeah, that's a big issue with people in general, but in LA it's I think this is the the magnet for all the Narcissists and all the people that want attention and the people that that have a hole they have a hole They need to fill up for whatever their childhood whatever whatever fuck it is And they gravitate here and then they just communicate with each other the same way and everybody kind of like pretends to be someone who they're not and then Hopefully they make it and then once they make it then they just you know become some fucking weirdo Just it's it's weird how many of them are like almost like cookie cutter like oh, I've met that guy before He just looked different, you know Yeah, I mean it's like it's like the same person living a different life. I've noticed I know Assembly line. Yeah This they fell asleep or something but the actor world is like I've met a lot of comedians that are similar But there are a lot they're very so much but the actors boy There's a lot that are super similar just a lot of you know But then again, you'll meet some of them who've like figured it out and made it through and they're super normal Like Adam Sandler is one of the nicest guys you've ever met you like. Oh my god It couldn't be nicer told if you didn't know he was Adam Sandler and you met him You'd be like, oh it's someone's dad looking super normal, dude. Yeah, Tom Yanks You said super normal that's what people say, you know, like because they asked me oh, how's Scott, you know Seems normal. So that's why that's what you're like, so you must not know me yet Yeah, it is because an actor is like they Well, I don't know. Yeah, who am I to say who's normal, right? Right to me seems like a normal guy and you said Adam Sandler was completely normal So that's kind of puts it in perspective. Yeah Well, I mean my normal is like you could talk to them and they're really there. They're real sincere Yeah, you get the present present having a real conversation with you And there's a lot of people that just don't do that you talk to them and they're just putting on some hey How are you? Good to see you? I definitely don't trust people who are too nice I'm like, why are they so nice? This this isn't right It's just a tough world for these people anyway, especially the ones that haven't made it out here It's so psychologically devastating because you're constantly going on auditions and you're constantly getting rejected So you're insecure in the first place and then you are hoping someone likes you So you go to this thing and and and you're kind of like putting on your best behavior and you're dressing good like hi Pleased to meet you a nice. All right. All right. Hey. Hey, thanks guys. Thanks for the opportunity you leave Like you stay said you sucked at the audition what I didn't suck No, they just really didn't like you. They said you didn't make eye contact fuck They you know and people get weirder and weirder and if you meet an actor Say like like one year and then you meet them ten years later and they're still swinging and nothing's happening. They might be like almost ready to crack yeah, like Right at that falling down with that Michael Douglas, you know when he's fucking he's got the briefcase and he goes in traffic So shooting people. Yeah, they're like a couple of days before that they're like just on the break Take it anymore. It's a fucking devastating business, right? It's tough. It's tough But you know it like I mean we were talking about before it's it's all it's all built on Hard work and your reputation Yeah Because like you said, you know and you get a reputation for being an asshole or you know Showing up late to work or this down the other and you know, everyone's gonna know about it It's a small place LA or being a diva in a diva diva. That's a big one. That's not a good. That's not a good You can't shake that one. Yeah that happens to people like in Hollywood They'll they'll be doing a lot of big movies and you hear like oh she's difficult to work with Yeah, they just fucking disappear. Sure And it's almost seems like Hollywood delights and shutting all your people out. They're rooting for you to fail Yeah, yeah, they kind of but when you prove to be like ungrateful in some way or you don't like like here's a perfect example Well, he kind of made it on television Do you remember David Caruso when David Caruso was on NYPD blue and everybody's like wow this guy's a great actor and then he quit NYPD blue when it was this massive hit show and then went and started doing Like some real shitty movies Yeah everybody was like why the fuck would you quit a big show like NYPD blue and do a bunch of movies like boy I hope he fails and the movies failed and then everyone's like And then he never did a movie again, you never saw him in a good movie Like he like had this trajectory of this amazing career. Yeah, Danny became this caricature Because then he was doing that stupid Cop show where we take his glasses off and say some stupid pun. Well, it looks like he got nailed It was like CSI Miami or something like that and it was a fucking caricature of a cop show Yeah, whereas NYPD blue when he was on it was groundbreaking. I mean it was fucking fantastic So what happened? It just he became an I don't know. I don't know who he is But he can't recognize as a diva whether or not he was actually a diva Oh, I don't know the guy you'd have to meet him and talk to him and hang out with him But he had that stink and you get that stink on it. That's the other thing too is it's not even you know In Hollywood, it's not even what's true. Sometimes it's just perceived. It's so it's you know, my dad used to always say he say believe half of what you see and none of what you hear and And then I always stuck with me because you know You sit down with people in the industry or whatever and you just hear you know A lot of Hollywood is gossip right is it full of gossip Queens? Everybody wants to talk shit about someone they worked with or tell some story and tell how difficult somebody was or this that And you don't even you know, it's a business built on you know, it's it's just a house of cards You know, you're like well that how do you know that that's even true? Right, you know, it's kind of fucked up Yeah, it's you know, I mean I don't feel like that happens in other businesses, but maybe it does with co-workers I don't maybe it does it's also there's it's a weird thing because When you're a movie star like yourself and you're on the screen like you get all the adulation and all the love There's a whole crew of people behind you. Yeah, there's special effects people and lighting and sound and it's directors and Juicers like Jamie Young Jamie is a hundred people to every one that's on the screen right at least that's and so and they get no love Yeah, they get no, you know they get no loving and that's where the business side of the business is so delusion because The agents and the people around it, so they're not the ones they're you know putting in this sweat every day for five months To make a film, you know pulling the creative ideas pulling the hard work You know the grips and all the all the guys who you know are underpaid and are you know working just to? Make money to you know feed their families So it's it's interesting because I saw it from a very different lens I saw it from my father's lens, which is you know, my dad show up on time get the movie done shoot it fast Treat everybody good and you know work with the same people over and over again Do the right thing by people have integrity? whereas it people don't see That side of of the business. There's so much other stuff that you never do people never get love for and in the film industry Yeah, well in the long hours. That's another thing that people don't understand if you're on a film set like what's an average day For you. Oh, it could be I mean a short days a 12-hour day So it's you know 12 to 16 and how many days a week you working five six I mean when you're on location you're usually You could be in a movie that's doing a six-day workweek or you could be doing a five day But by the end everyone's doing a six sometimes even you know You're just putting in full you're in full throttle to get the movie done now when you're on location Do you have to squeeze a workout in to keep your brain? Oh, yeah, same Yeah, how do you do that on a 16-hour day? I try to do it during lunch Because I find that if you go to lunch You you get sluggish after lunch, right? And then you're going. Oh shit. I got to get back in there You know and do this I got it now. I got to hit the coffee or get hit the whatever right to get stimulated Okay, right. Yeah, that's what you're saying. Yeah, just just just Are you a math guy or okay? Just a bump to get the head But yeah, so I think working out during lunch I seems to be the best thing for me because I don't do well in the mornings for a workout cuz I feel stiff Mm-hmm, so I like to get the blood going first if I can hit it during lunch Even if I'm on set I'll do whatever dumbbells this that and the other and then I'll have I'll get you know Some endorphins kicking