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Clint Eastwood Once Said Spike Lee 'Should Shut His Face' in Heated Feud Over Racial Representation in War Films

A new Clint Eastwood biography from Shawn Levy, 'Clint: The Man and The Movies,' chronicles a public feud between Eastwood and Spike Lee over Black representation in 'Letters from Iwo Jima' and 'Flags of Our Fathers.' 'A guy like that should shut his face,” Eastwood said of Lee.

That made for a volatile combination in 2008 when the two legendary directors had what the new biography Clint: The Man and The Movies(on bookshelves July 1) calls an “ugly spat.” In Levy's book, the author recalls when Lee, now 68, criticized Eastwood, 95, for the lack of representation in his 2006 companion movies about WWII, Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. Claiming his depictions of those moments in history were authentic, Eastwood publicly responded with characteristic candor while promoting his 2008 drama Changeling: “A guy like him should shut his face.”

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