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Is That Clint Eastwood Interview Real? HFPA Journalist Says She Aggregated Old Quotes After Director Calls Out ‘Phony’ Story
After Clint Eastwood called a new interview with him "phony," the journalist behind the piece says it's aggregated from quotes he gave to the HFPA over many years.
In a statement to Variety, Elisabeth Sereda, a journalist and longtime member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, says that she was tapped by Austrian publication Kurier to write a tribute timed to Eastwood’s 95th birthday on May 31. In 2018, former HFPA president Aida Takla O’Reilly said a bizarre interview with Drew Barrymore, published by EgyptAir’s in-flight magazine, was “genuine and far from fake,” though may have been erroneously edited by the publication. (This isn’t counting Sergio Leone’s The Man With No Name spaghetti westerns, which were packaged and marketed as a trilogy after the production of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”)
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