Los Angeles (AFP)

Retirement is not on the program for Clint Eastwood: at 91, the Hollywood legend has not only made a new film, "Cry Macho", but he also rides a horse and even finds time to throw a shot. fist.

"Cry Macho", in theaters Friday in the United States (November 10 in France) returns to the westerns which made the glory of the actor.

He plays there a former rodeo champion, Mike Milo, in charge of a last mission.

Milo must travel to Mexico and find the son of his ex-boss, Rafo, and teach him to ride a horse.

"The idea for this film dates back some 40 years," recalls Clint Eastwood.

"I am too young for the role, why I would not direct the film and one would take Robert Mitchum?", He had launched at the time to a producer.

The project had not been done and Clint Eastwood, after a few decades of career, believes that he now has the necessary maturity to take the lead role himself.

"What everyone likes to see is Clint in a cowboy hat, perched on a horse," said Tim Moore, his longtime collaborator and producer, recently.

"He has not been on a horse since + Ruthless +", he noted, referring to this western which won the Oscars in 1993.

"The first day of filming that he was riding the crew were super excited. It was a special moment," says Tim Moore.

Multiple Oscar winner Eastwood rose to international stardom in the 1960s with Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, the infamous "For a Fistful of Dollars," "And For A Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad" trilogy. and the Ugly ".

Since his debut behind the camera in 1971 with "A Thrill in the Night", he has gone from film to film, often with success, and has expressed his desire to continue working as long as he finds projects "worthy of interest" .

He had announced to end his acting career after "Gran Torino" in 2008, but had returned to service four years later for "A New Chance", then again in 2018 with "La Mule".

The trailer for "Cry Macho", which is being released simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming platform HBO Max, makes many references to the age difference between the two heroes of the film, who forge a bond on the way to the back to Texas, strewn with pitfalls.

"Before you were strong, macho", says Rafo, played by the young Mexican Eduardo Minett.

"I used to be a lot of things," Clint Eastwood retorts.

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