John Wayne's final screen role featured one of his best performances, but he only landed the movie after Clint Eastwood had already passed.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Clint Eastwood passed on a Western movie role that went on to feature one of John Wayne's best performances. While Westerns were once one of the most dominant genres in Hollywood, they waned greatly in popularity during the 1960s. Eastwood was one of the last movie stars to make his name off the genre, thanks to the success of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy or Hang 'Em High.
Studio at the time would have leapt at the chance to pair Eastwood and Wayne together in a Western, but the latter held a real distaste for Eastwood's work. He especially disliked the Eastwood-directed High Plains Drifter and even wrote Clint a letter critiquing it. Despite the popularity of "oaters" declining sharply, Wayne was one of the few actors to star in them consistently until the end of his career.
The Shootist ended up being a perfect final screen role for Wayne, though contrary to rumor, the star hadn't been diagnosed with cancer when he was filming it. Wayne considered other film roles in the years following The Shootist - including bluntly rejecting an appearance in Spielberg's 1941 because he felt it made light of World War 2 - but illness prevented this.
Wayne Cussed Out Eastwood On The Shootist's Set Perhaps Wayne wouldn't have accepted The Shootist had he been aware that Newman or Eastwood have turned it down first. The film itself was helmed by regular Eastwood collaborator Don Siegel , and there's even a still image of Eastwood, Siegel and Wayne meeting on The Shootist's set.
Eastwood himself recounted on Inside the Actor's Studio an anecdote from The Shootist's set, where he stated Siegel made a "terrible error" trying to direct Wayne in this sequence. When Wayne proclaimed he had "never" shot anyone in the back during his screen career and wasn't about to start.
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