Clint Eastwood only decided to use an empty chair as a prop for his Republican National Convention speech at the last minute.
And he refused to let Mitt Romney’s handlers know what he was going to say — because he didn’t know himself. All he promised was that he would be “nice” to the GOP candidate.
The Hollywood legend says, in his first interview since his headline-making speech, that Obama has pulled the wool over the eyes of the American public and described himself as "Joe Citizen" — a movie maker who has the same feelings as the average guy.
Eastwood spoke out for the first time since his Aug. 30 convention appearance, in an interview with his hometown weekly newspaper, the Carmel Pine Cone. He was mayor of Carmel — a coastal city in northern California — for a single term in the late 1980s.
The idea to use the chair came to him as he waited in the green room before taking the stage, he said.
“There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down,” Eastwood told the paper. “When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea: `I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.'''
Eastwood told the paper that he asked a stagehand to take it out to the lectern while he was being announced.
“The guy said, ‘You mean you want it at the podium?’ and I said, ‘No, just put it right there next to it,’” Eastwood told the paper.
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