John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are known as two of the toughest guys in Hollywood, so one would think that the two of them would have been friends. Surprisingly enough, however, this was not the case at all. In fact, Wayne once bluntly refused to work with Eastwood and slammed one of his most beloved movies.
Wayne Slams Eastwood’s Movie
The Express reported that the 1973 film High Plains Drifter was the first movie that Eastwood both starred in and directed. In one interview, Eastwood revealed that Wayne once wrote him a brutal letter in which he said he hated this movie with a passion.
“John Wayne once wrote me a letter saying he didn’t like High Plains Drifter. He said it wasn’t really about the people who pioneered the West,” Eastwood recalled. “I realized that there’s two different generations, and he wouldn’t understand what I was doing.”
“High Plains Drifter was meant to be a fable: it wasn’t meant to show the hours of pioneering drudgery,” he continued. “It wasn’t supposed to be anything about settling the West.”
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