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Back in 2013, many of us were surprised by Scott Eastwood’s very attractive Town & Country photoshoot. Clint Eastwood’s genes produced a young look-alike son, only Scott looks and seems much more “frat-bro” than his dad. That was sort of the beginning of Scott’s hustle too, as he’s tried to parlay his “Fratty Clint” looks into some bigger roles, without much success. Scott hustled his way into the Fifty Shades of Grey auditions last year, once Charlie Hunnam tapped out, only it was pretty obvious that producers were not going to make Christian Grey into a frat-bro. But to hear Scott tell it, he was the one who walked away from the role. It was his choice, he swears!

Reading for the Christian Grey role: “They had asked me to come in and read and test for it. But they had no script. I won’t do a movie where there is no script. I am not going to get locked in. And they wanted full frontal nudity. There were some things about it that were not for me.”

He took himself out of the running: “It’s not a bad thing. The movie made a ton of money. It’s been a success. It just wasn’t for me. It was not something I wanted to do. I just didn’t enter the running. It was like, “Okay, thank you.”

Has he seen Fifty Shades? “I’ll have to wait for it to get onto my home channels.”

[From USA Today]

Is it possible that Scott understood – once he got in there – that they were never going to cast him in the role and that’s why he took himself out of the running? Perhaps. But the way he was hustling for it last year, I doubt it. I think it’s far more likely that Scott went into audition and the producers were like “eh, no thanks.” You know who I think legitimately had no interest in the role whatsoever? Matt Bomer. All the fan-girls wanted Bomer but he was never in the running because he simply didn’t want it. And you never hear Bomer talk sh-t about it either.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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