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we're featuring our classic films and movie icons series of interviews from our archives.

Today,s. First up,

Clint Eastwood. He became a TV star as Rowdy Yates on Rawhide, but left that series in midstream to go overseas and make movies

with Italian film director Sergio Leone.

Eastwood's stoic and vengeful character, who in several films was dubbed the man with no name

But those Italian films made Eastwood not just a star but an icon

Terry Gross spoke with Clint Eastwood in 1997.

At the time, he was the subject of a biography by film critic Richard Schickle.

Well, in some of your Westerns and like Dirty Harry

films you not only don't say a lot but what you do say you're saying often

through clenched teeth you know in that really guttural voice how did you develop

that style of speaking? I don't know what you're talking about. Well I think that the character just drives you in that, the character who is maybe frustrated with the things that the common person on the street are frustrated with.

The bureaucracy that we live in, the nightmare that we as a civilization have placed on ourselves.

And I think this is a person who is who was frustrated with that

especially if you're trying to solve a case in a limited amount of time so

make my dayline or the, do you feel lucky, punk, kind of lines,

but we're lines that people gravitated towards.

Did you have a sense of reading the script that you know

presidents would be you know you know making you know improvising on those lines and

that they'd be they'd be people just they would just enter the general vocabulary.

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