Scott Eastwood has criticized what he described as “shocking behavior” among some of his peers in Hollywood.
The 40-year-old actor, son of 96-year-old Clint Eastwood, suggested that certain stars have spent so long in the spotlight that they no longer feel properly answerable for their conduct.
Speaking last week on The Joe Rogan Experience, Eastwood recalled a dispute involving an unnamed A-list figure, saying: “Some of the accountability in this industry is just unbelievable.”
“I just worked with somebody and, without saying any names, people get too famous for too long and think the world owes them something,” he said.
Eastwood went on to describe a film project that had already received significant financial backing before a key participant allegedly decided they no longer wanted to work with another person involved.
“I was like, ‘Okay, then you need to pay that money back to the person who invested in you.’ They were like, ‘I’m not gonna do that,’” he recalled.
Scott Eastwood, the son of Clint Eastwood, has called out the “shocking behavior” he says he has seen from other Hollywood figures
During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience last week, Eastwood said accountability in the entertainment industry can be “unbelievable”
The nepo baby said he stressed to the person that repaying the investor would be ‘the right thing to do.’
‘They just left because they didn’t want to work with another person after we’d already started pre-production,’ he explained.
‘I’ve seen some behavior in this business that’s shocking behavior that wouldn’t fly in any other industry.’
Scott praised his iconic father for instilling a strong work ethic in his family, insisting his attitude was always to ‘put your boots on [and], go to work.’
The Tin Soldier star said he’s fortunate because he got to see bad behavior firsthand when he was growing up and visited his dad at work, showing him an example of how he should not behave.
He said: ‘I think I was lucky in some ways because I got to see it growing up and got to see how it’s bulls***.’
Scott credited his dad with doing ‘a really good job of protecting’ him and his siblings from the spotlight.
Eastwood is also the father of Laurie Murray, 71; Kimber Lynn Eastwood, 62; Kyle Eastwood, 58; Alison Eastwood, 54; Kathryn Eastwood, 38; Francesca Eastwood, 32; and Morgan Eastwood, 29.
From left, Kyle Eastwood, Alison Eastwood, Clint Eastwood and Scott Eastwood
The actor with Allison Williams in the 2025 romance film Regretting You
Scott in the action/crime movie Alarum last year
Rogan noted child stars can ‘get stunted in [their] growth’ when they become famous at a young age.
Scott replied: ‘I mean, kudos to my dad, cause he did a really good job of protecting us from that and [was] very private.
‘We didn’t live in LA, we lived in Carmel. It was a very… as normal as it could be, in the sense that he was like, ‘”No, you just need to be a normal child and learn how the world works.”‘
The Lucky Strike actor said both he and his dad have always treated acting ‘as a job’ and have never taken a method approach, highlighting that he isn’t ‘one of these crazy psychos’ that stay in character both on and off camera.
He emphasized: ‘My dad was never like that. He was like, it’s a job. Like go to work, do the best you can, put in the reps, make sure you know your s*** and you come prepared, and you have something interesting, but leave it at the door.’
