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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 12 december 2019
Eastwood on ‘Richard Jewell,’ criticism and finding stories

By MARCELA ISAZA people. And I think that this
Associated Press is a victory lap for the Jew-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For his ell family, as much as they
film “Richard Jewell,” Clint can have without Richard
Eastwood takes aim at the here with them.
media and federal investi- AP: What are you most
gators for what he sees as proud of in your body of
a rush to judgment after work?
the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Eastwood: Well, I did a one-
bombing. The 89-year-old act play once when I was
director calls security guard in high school or junior high
Richard Jewell’s story “a school, and I swore I would
great American tragedy,” never do that again. I hat-
one he’s been trying to tell ed the idea. I was a terribly
for five years. complex young kid, and
Eastwood’s movie recounts the last thing I wanted to do
the chaotic summer night is do an extrovert-ish thing
of the bombing, which like acting. But then when
killed one woman, and the you get into acting later as
swirl of confusion that fol- an adult, you realize it’s not
lowed. Within a few days, necessarily an extroverted
Jewell went from being thing. Introverts make great
hailed as a hero, for finding actors because they have
the bomb and reporting it a lot of things they’re hold-
to police, to becoming a This Dec. 5, 2019 photo shows director Clint Eastwood, center, posing with cast members, from ing in. It’s just a question of
prime suspect in the attack. left, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Paul Walter Hauser and Sam Rockwell during a portrait session to learning how to get them
He was cleared of suspi- promote their film “Richard Jewell” at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. out into the open.
Associated Press
cion after three months, It’s also a funny profession
and died in 2007 at age 44. represents their reporting Eastwood: Well, the chal- wonder if I could reinstate because you don’t know
“It’s always tragic when on the story and their staff’s lenge was that four-year it?” where the next thing is hap-
people run off with half in- actions. period where the frustration AP: How do you hope this pening. You try it even if it
formation and don’t really In an interview alongside of having the project all to- film changes the public’s has no resemblance to you
have the truth set up in front his film’s star, Paul Walter gether right up to the last perception of Richard Jew- at all or anything you’ve
of them,” Eastwood said. Hauser, Eastwood spoke half an inch and then all of ell? ever thought of. It’s a fun
“The press is sometimes in with The Associated Press a sudden it fell apart -- and Hauser: The hope with this life, but a lot of it just so
a hurry because there’s so about his struggle to get it fell apart partly on my film, other than entertaining happens.
much competition to be the film made, finding suc- fault, too. You negotiate an audience -- we’re still in Stories come along. And
the first to do something.” cess in Hollywood despite and you hit a wall. Different the business of entertaining stories are the king. And
The Atlanta Journal-Consti- being an introvert, and studios owned the prop- and telling a great story -- you go ahead and try to
tution, a central character criticisms of the film’s accu- erty. And finally I walked but the greater picture, of tell them the best you can.
in the film, has disputed the racy. away. Then this last year, I course, is the echo effect But it’s not just not an in-
paper’s depiction in “Rich- AP: What were your biggest said, “I wonder whatever it will have on the public tellectual art form. It’s an
ard Jewell,” saying it mis- challenges with this? happened to that? And I of clearing his name to all emotional art form.q

A$AP Rocky to perform in Stockholm months after conviction

By DAVID KEYTON and has led to queues of man was hurt in the June
Associated Press youngsters making their 30 fight. He pleaded self-
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A$AP way into the capital. defense, saying he tried
Rocky is back in Sweden. High school student Far- to avoid a confrontation
The American rapper naz Roustaei was in bed with two men who were
is set to perform late when she heard the news following his entourage.
Wednesday in Stockholm, on snapchat and suc- Mayers and his body-
where he was convicted ceeded in convincing her guards were all convicted
of assault in August over a mother to let her travel but received conditional
street brawl. ninety minutes into town. sentences, sparing them
The artist, whose real She got her ticket via a prison time unless they
name is Rakim Mayers, will link on Mayers’ instagram committed similar offens-
appear at Stockholm’s Er- profile, and while not free, es in the future.
icsson Globe arena. it cost her only 11 krona During his return to Stock-
Following a visit to a (1.1 US dollars.) holm this week, A$AP
school in the suburbs of “I’m so stressed. It’s my first Rocky had wanted to
the Swedish capital earlier concert ever,” she said, entertain inmates at Kro-
in the day, Mayers posted sharply dressed and with In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, ASAP Rocky noberg prison, the facil-
an open invitation to his fresh make-up, making poses for photographers upon arrival at the British Fashion ity where he was held for
concert on instagram. her way to join her friends. Awards in central London. Associated Press weeks this summer.
“Whoever’s from the Concert promoter Live But Sweden’s prison
hood, they get in for free,” Nation said last month dous support from the along with his two body- board nixed the prison
he said in a video that that Mayers scheduled Swedish fans.” guards and charged with concert, citing logistical
went viral on social media the show “after tremen- Mayers was arrested assault after a 19-year-old and security issues.q