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#2519 - Scott Eastwood

Explore episode Jun 26, 2026
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The Problem With Child Actors

#2519 - Scott Eastwood · Jun 26, 2026 Arts

Scott Eastwood believes getting famous before your frontal cortex is fully developed permanently stunts emotional growth. His father deliberately kept him out of LA and away from the industry to let him grow up normally — and he thinks it's the reason he kept his head on straight.

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World War II, Lucky Strike & Meeting Veterans

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Joe asks how Scott prepares to portray a WWII-era character when so few veterans remain. Scott describes 20 years of meeting veterans for various war films, always struck by the pain in their eyes when recounting their experiences. The most powerful recent encounter was with 107-year-old Colonel Herbert Irving Stern at the Washington Archives — a Silver Star recipient who fought at the Battle of the Bulge and in April 1945 discovered and liberated a concentration camp housing 3,000 Jewish women. When Stern told Scott they had gotten the story right, Eastwood was brought to tears. Joe reflects that WWII is still captivating because it is the last war with absolute moral clarity — the evil of Nazi Germany was unambiguous, and the allied response genuinely saved Western civilisation from speaking German. Scott adds that he only recently learned thousands of German Americans returned to Germany to fight for the Wehrmacht, many becoming spies with native English fluency.

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