In 1968, clint eastwood He was chosen to play the lead role in a western musical. Legend of a nameless city. He was at the peak of his career as an actor, having just made his breakout role as “The Man with No Name” in the Dollar trilogy. Sergio Leone. Going from Spaghetti Western’s most iconic face to singing and dancing meant a slight departure from the genre he was known for.
Eastwood was married at the time. Margaret Neville Johnson. But it was known that they had. “Open Marriage”. That is, Margaret accepted that actors have a certain freedom in maintaining different Extramarital relations.
at the beginning of shooting Legend of a nameless city, Eastwood had two lovers. Actors I met there Jean Seberg the co-star with whom he shares the scene, He fell in love with her, but not as crazy as she was, Apparently. They began an intense, but no less unusual romance, at the expense of Seberg’s husband. Roman Gary. The French writer and diplomat didn’t understand infidelity as well as Margaret, who already had years of experience dealing with infidelity.
The point is Jean Seberg didn’t think of her relationship with Eastwood as just entertainment Either in between filming or as a way to lend some realism to the romance they played out on the big screen, which was uncannily true to the reality in which they lived. no, Seberg was in love with “The Man with No Name.”
Now, if you put the facts into context, such as the filming of a Western movie, what kind of person Clint Eastwood was, that the actress’s husband is a writer, and that she confessed to falling in love with the actor, the script will naturally be written. The honor code requires it. Roman Gary challenged some of the most memorable western cowboys to a duel. Unfortunately for him, that didn’t happen.
carina longworth He talked about this conflict on an episode of his podcast Please remember this. According to the host, “They never did that. Roman left, and Jean called her publicist and confessed that she was obsessed with Clint Eastwood and needed help announcing that she was divorcing.”
In the end, no one got what they wanted, except for Eastwood. Immediately after shooting, The actor had forgotten about Seberg’s existence. biographer of the actress, david richards “Once they got back to Paramount, Clint didn’t seem to know who he was. Jean couldn’t believe he could be so indifferent to her after everything she had been through. At Baker. “She is a very vulnerable woman and it was very traumatic for her.”
10 years later, what is noteworthy is that Gary eventually died from the shooting. But a year after Jean Seberg’s suicide, it was he who pulled the trigger on himself.
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