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Shame there doesnt seem to be any London dates..

Here is an article from World of Reel:

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/9/29/e1je2nx7nyi71uslvg62ldmwwideaf

Here is an article from Indiewire:

https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/what-happens-production-pipeline-when-strikes-end-1234907078/

Yeah, seems like a good sign that it looks like the writer's strike may be over soon. Hopefully the SAG strike will be coming to an end soon.

This project was stopped due to the actors strike, not the writers strike. While this is a positive sign that the studios are willing to resolve some of these issues, they still need to resolve the issues with the SAG before filming can be resumed.

Yes, you are right.
Hopefully, the SAG will return to the negotiations table with the studios.

Is this an interview with Clint and Kyle for 90 minutes? Because that would be a cool thing to see!

Unfortunately, I don't appear able to see it. It seems blocked. Does anyone know a way to get around this without using a VPN, which I don't have?

Are there any highlights from the interview that you can share for us, since I suspect U.S. citizens won't be able to watch this.

Hello AKA23,
No, this is not an interview for 90 minutes.
Actually, this is basically the same video of the Eastwood Symphonic concert that I posted few weeks earlier.
The main difference is a conversation between Clint and Kyle, which is edited in between the music themes of the concert. The whole conversation lasts 20 minutes or so. It is about the great relationship the Eastwood family always had with music, how Clint and Kyle worked together, how Clint worked with some of film music composers. Clint told many little anecdotes. Kyle said Hans Zimmer told him that the Eiger Sanction music score by John Williams was one of his favorites. Anyway, seeing Clint and Kyle sitting together and talking to each other, some 40 years after Honkytonk Man, was quite moving.

This project was stopped due to the actors strike, not the writers strike. While this is a positive sign that the studios are willing to resolve some of these issues, they still need to resolve the issues with the SAG before filming can be resumed.

Hi everyone,
It seems that the strike is coming to an end.
In fact, the WGA and the studios would have found an agreement.
Would you have more news ?

Hi joeschmoe,
The film you are looking for must be Ben and Charlie, a 1972 Italian western with Giuliano Gemma and George Eastman.

Great find, thanks!

Funny how I remembered the sequence accurately except for putting Clint's face on the other actor.

Been bothering me for years and now I'm free. 

Nice find, Hocine. Have you seen this movie before or just able to find it after reading the question?

Thank you, Christopher
Actually, I have seen this movie many times before. But I almost forgot it.
After reading the question, I had no idea about the film joeschmoe described at first.
It even sounded like an episode from The Little House TV series to me. Probably because of that potato sack race
Then I realized that I actually knew that movie. In fact, I have seen it many times when I was between 8 and 12 years old I guess. I was 7 years old when my family bought a VHS player for the first time.
My father used to buy many Italian films on VHS: mostly westerns, adventure films, sword and sandals movies like Hercules. I have to admit that most of those movies were far from being masterpieces but they were entertaining and funny. This was the way I discovered that movie, Ben and Charlie, which is half a comedy, half a western. And more important and significant to me, this was the way I actually discovered Clint Eastwood in The Good The Bad And The Ugly and For A Few Dollars More when I was probably 8 years old. At that same age, I also discovered Al Pacino in Scarface. Today, Clint and Al Pacino are still my favorite actors.
 

It was funny hearing Kyle say his mother wouldn?t let him have a drum kit with Clint adding no one wants a kid
with a drum kit 😁
Also Clint saying that his sons bass lessons were affordable..