Eastwood won't be back as Dirty Harry
CANNES, France (AP) - May 20, 2008 Eastwood was asked Tuesday at a news conference at the Cannes
Film Festival if he would be reprising the role of Harry Callahan,
the renegade cop of "Dirty Harry" and four sequels.
As he laid to rest the notion that he might revive Harry, Jolie
chimed in: "I am."
"Dirty Harriet and the `Tomb Raider' will play it," Eastwood
joked about Jolie, whose screen credits include the "Lara Croft:
Tomb Raider" flicks.
Eastwood was at Cannes for the premiere of his missing-child
drama, "Changeling," starring Jolie. The 32-year-old actress was
in Cannes for both "Changeling" and her animated comedy, "Kung
Fu Panda," which premiered at the festival last week.
Eastwood, who turns 78 on May 31, went on to add that "Dirty
Harry would not be on the police department at my age, so we'll
move on from that."
The Cannes lineup this year features a retrospective of Warner
Bros. classics, including 1971's "Dirty Harry," which comes out
in a new DVD edition with the other four films in the series on
June 3.
The character has become an icon: a vigilante cop fighting
bureaucracy on behalf of victims. For Eastwood, though, it was an
exciting detective story first and foremost.
"Whatever reaction it had, it was great fun at that time,"
Eastwood said. "It was a fantasy role. You point a .44 Magnum at
someone and say, `Do you feel lucky?"'