Scott Eastwood on his new Colleen Hoover film, ‘Regretting You,’ lessons from dad Clint

The younger Eastwood is tight with his seven siblings, despite their sprawling careers and different mothers. (His flight attendant mom, Jacelyn Reeves, reportedly met Clint in his Carmel, Calif., restaurant; the couple had two children during their relationship: Scott and his younger sister Kathryn). “I’m close with most of all my siblings. We have gatherings, we do see each other. Everyone’s busy and doing their own thing. So, we’re all a little spread out. My brother [Kyle] is in Europe a lot because he’s a jazz musician, and my sisters are all doing their own things in different fields. So, yeah, it’s definitely hard to get our schedules to align sometimes!” 

Like the rest of his family, Eastwood is constantly on the move. He’s got two new films in the works after “Regretting You.” First up is “Wind River: The Next Chapter,” a sequel to the 2017 Jeremy Renner-Taylor Sheridan drama set on a Native American reservation. And soon he’s headed to Cape Town, South Africa, to shoot “Red Card,” an action thriller based on real events co-starring Djimon Hounsou and Halle Berry. 

When he’s not filming, Eastwood loves to surf; he’s hit the waves in Cape Town, Australia, Indonesia, Mexico and Hawaii (where he spent some of his childhood with his mom, on sprawling ranchland) and California (where he was born and spent the rest, often at his dad’s ranch, riding horses and fishing). Still, the man knows his limits. 

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“Being out in big surf is always scary,” he says. “But when you see guys surfing Nazaré [in Portugal, where a monster break can serve up waves that approach 100 feet] or Jaws [another storied big-wave break, in Maui, Hawaii], that’s a whole other level of scary, and a level of commitment that I’m not really interested in at this point in my life!”

He is, however, hooked on the adrenaline of doing his own stunts. Alas, there were no arduous physical feats asked of him on “Regretting You,” but he’s had his share of good (read: risky) times on other sets. What’s the one that really stands out? “Probably jumping from a car to a semitruck, going about 40 miles an hour,” he says, referring to the 2017 film “Overdrive.” “That was pretty dangerous.” 

He’s also willing to jump into a car and be driven to parts unknown in New York City, as he recalls from his shoot with us. “I don’t really know where in Manhattan we were,” he says. “Sometimes, I just get in the car and I’m suddenly transported into a different part of the city.” Our cover shoot took place at the Commodore II bar in the East Village, and in line with its retro decor, Eastwood tells us he especially enjoyed the ’50s-reminiscent looks he sported.

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In real life, he’s a dedicated jeans-and-tees guy who doesn’t spend a lot of time on luxe label loyalty. “If I was to boil it down to one brand, probably just Levi’s,” he says. As for his T-shirt brand of choice, he demurs: “I probably should have a brand at this point that I like the most, but I usually just wear ones I’ve come across over the years.” Today, for example, he’s wearing a navy-colored Honolulu Fire Department shirt with his gym shorts.

In contrast to his sartorial brand aversion, though, Eastwood lights up when I ask for restaurant recommendations in the Austin area. “I’ll just give you a couple of the top hits for Mexican,” he says. “If you’re going for food, I think it’s Polvos. If you’re going for a hang, it’s Matt’s El Rancho. For sushi, it’s Soto. For steak, it’s probably Jeffrey’s or J. Carver’s. And if you’re going for an Asian kind of place, RedFarm is really good.”

He also recently returned to one of his favorite vacation hangs, Mexico’s San Miguel de Allende. “It’s about three hours north of Mexico City, old silver mining town. It’s incredible,” he says. “Great shopping, artisanal vendors that are doing really cool stuff. There’s a lot to see.”

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