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Even though Clint Eastwood spends more time behind the camera these days, no one really can stop this man from doing what he wants to do. But those who thought that he had given up on acting all together can think again.

The Academy award winning director, who was promoting his new film Changeling at the New York Film Festival on Thursday, began acting more than 50 years ago and gained fame playing the mane with no name.

But in the past couple of years he has been at work on many of his directorial ventures like the Oscar winning Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby to the seminal Letters from Iwo Jima.

Yet, despite all the work behind the camera he is all set to star in Gran Torino, which will be coming out in a couple of months. “Since (‘Changeling’) was completed this year I have done another film in which I have performed, even though I said I wasn’t going to do that anymore,” Eastwood told reporters.
“I think I started saying that back a few years ago, I said ‘I don’t think I’ll act anymore, I’ll stay behind the camera”’ and then ‘Million Dollar Baby’ came along and I liked that role, “he said. “Now I’ve done ‘Gran Torino’.“
It is his first acting role since 2004’s Million Dollar Baby, but after working with some young actors he should once again go and quit acting.

“I’m always amazed at how good some of them are at such young ages because it took me forever to learn how to say my own name,” he said.
“It’s a great thing, that’s one of the reasons why, in my senior years I do this sort of thing, I stay behind the camera and let the young people out there jump and run,” he said.

Changeling is a drama based on a true story of a woman whose search for her missing son forced her to confront the Los Angeles police and a serial child killer.

The film will release in the United States on October 31 st, after a world premiere at the recent Cannes Film Festival that drew mostly good reviews. It will probably bring the director his 5 th Oscar nomination.

But if the film doesn’t meet with expectations, Eastwood will have Gran Torino to fall back on. He not only stars in the movie but is also directing the movie. He portrays a Korean war vetran forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his racial prejudices after his Gran Torino car is stolen. The movie will release in December just in time for the Oscar watchers to cast their vote on this great living director. The film will be distributed by Warner Bros.