Scott Eastwood has recalled the legendary way his father, Clint Eastwood, calmly put Kevin Costner’s “big ego” in check on the set of 1993’s A Perfect World.
Directed by and also starring Clint, 96, the crime thriller followed an escaped prisoner (Costner) who kidnaps a young, impressionable boy and takes him on a journey across the American Southwest.
Costner’s lead role in the crime thriller came during a time when he was “sort of going through maybe ... a rise to fame” and “maybe [had] a big ego,” Scott, 40, said on a recent episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
“Apparently, Kevin wouldn’t come out of his trailer for some reason,” the Fury actor remembered, explaining that his father “doesn’t do trailers and things” and prefers to “just be on set.”
“He always told me [that] as a kid. ‘You want to learn how to make movies? You want to learn how to do this? You stay here with everybody else and you make the damn movie,’” Scott noted.
Instead of yelling for Costner to come out of his trailer, Clint told his crew to “send him home.”
“So he sent him home and I guess they just went to Kevin and said, ‘Hey, you’re going to go home for the day,’” Scott recounted. “He said, ‘What do you mean, I’m in the scene?’ [And they said], ‘Well, I guess you’re not anymore.’
“The next day, [Costner] was on set ready to go,” the Gran Torino star said.
The Independent has contacted Costner’s representative for comment.
Scott is one of Clint’s eight children from various relationships and marriages. He is the oldest of the famed actor-director’s two children with Jacelyn Reeves.
The four-time Oscar winner rose to fame with the TV series Rawhide in the sixties before starring in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western Dollars trilogy, which included The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. His directorial debut, Play Misty For Me, came out in 1971, and in the years after he released hit films like Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, American Sniper and The Mule.
Clint hasn’t acted since 2021’s Cry Macho, with his son, 58-year-old musician and composer Kyle, claiming to France Info in November 2025 that he has officially retired.
“I have many fond memories of working with him. Now he’s retired, he’s 95 years old,” Kyle said. “But I was very lucky to be able to work with him on quite a few films. It was a great experience for me.”
Last month, however, Scott cast doubt on his father’s supposed retirement.
“We’ll see. I have not heard that from his mouth at all,” the Longest Ride actor said in an interview with ScreenRant. “His career in general has been something to admire, something to be inspired by, and continues to inspire me. The work, the artistry that he's done on and off screen. Producing, writing, composing, directing, acting. The body of work is incredible.”
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