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Warner Bros. Planned to Send ‘Juror No. 2’ to Streaming, but the Film Proves Clint Eastwood Is Still Built for Theaters
'Juror No. 2' opened on less than two dozen screens, which feels anticlimactic for a legend like Eastwood, but may in fact be his best shot at Oscar.
The legendary actor-director had agreed to an unusually generous in-person interview at the Malpaso offices on the Warner Bros. lot, where he sat beneath a giant subway poster for “Dirty Harry,” looking every bit as intimidating as the snarling detective on the wall above him. Eastwood had won the top prize a dozen years earlier for “Unforgiven” in what felt almost like a too-early lifetime achievement award, but had otherwise remained largely off the Academy’s radar (unless you count Meryl Streep’s nomination for “The Bridges of Madison County”). As with so many of Eastwood’s movies — like the one where he played a burglar who witnessed the death of the President’s mistress, or the cat-and-mouse crime thriller where his aging FBI agent got a heart transplant “gifted” from the serial killer he’d been tracking — the implausible setup might trip you up.
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