Clint Eastwood has been known around the world as a veteran director beyond all means. Eastwood, however, started his journey as an actor portraying several iconic and notable roles over the years.
Starring in Sergio Leone’s The Dollars Trilogy, Clint Eastwood starred in a genre of movies called Western spaghetti. Portraying the role of The Man with No Name, Eastwood’s dedication to the role is both commendable and a bit disgusting as he reportedly never washed his character’s cape over the course of three years!
Clint Eastwood Wore An Unwashed Serape For Three Years!
Back in 1964, Italian director Sergio Leone released the iconic film A Fistful of Dollars. Portraying the story of an unknown riding into town with two opposing factions, the movie was essentially a cowboy movie with plenty of action scenes for people to enjoy.
In the movie, Clint Eastwood portrayed the role of The Man with No Name. Wearing a serape around his neck and carrying pistols in his holster, Eastwood’s character became notoriously famous from the movie. A year later, Leone released For a Few Dollars More, a sequel to the 1964 film, and Clint Eastwood reprised his role of The Man with No Name.
Finally, in 1966, Sergio Leone released The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, thus completing The Dollars Trilogy. As per a report by Outsider.com, Eastwood never washed his iconic cape throughout the shooting of The Dollars Trilogy. Alleging that the cape was a memorabilia of how far the character had come throughout these movies, Eastwood wore the same cape for three years without washing it once!
Sergio Leone Talked About Working With Clint Eastwood
Although it was Leone’s movies that made Eastwood famous in Hollywood, the director has had some complaints with the veteran actor. Comparing him to Robert de Niro, Sergio Leone revealed in an interview with American Film that Eastwood was like a block of marble!
“Robert De Niro throws himself into this or that role, putting on a personality the way someone else might put on his coat, naturally and with elegance, while Clint Eastwood throws himself into a suit of armor and lowers the visor with a rusty clang.”
He further continued,
“[Clint] Eastwood moves like a sleepwalker between explosions and hails of bullets, and he is always the same — a block of marble. Bobby [Robert De Niro], first of all, is an actor. Clint, first of all, is a star. Bobby suffers, Clint yawns.”
Despite whatever the director and Clint Eastwood had between them, the two went their separate ways at the end of The Dollars Trilogy. Eastwood went on to become an iconic actor with his portrayal of action characters and then later became a veteran director with a unique take on movies.