Clint Eastwood Blasts Current Culture: ‘We’re Really In A P**** Generation’ .

Clint Eastwood surprised many when he told the LA Times that “he’s not ready to quit” any time soon, and it would seem that one reason he’s still making movies is due to his outlook on the current generation. The Oscar-winning director didn’t hold back when he was interviewed by Esquire Magazine as the discussion turned to his experiences in Hollywood and his personal strong-held beliefs.

“Secretly everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up,” said Clint Eastwood. “That’s the kiss-a** generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a p**** generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells. We see people people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist.”

The award-winning actor continued, “When I did Gran Torino, even my associate said, ‘This is a really good script, but it’s politically incorrect.’ And I said, ‘Good. Let me read it tonight.’ The next morning, I came in and I threw it on his desk and I said, ‘We’re starting this immediately.’”

Eastwood then lambasted the “p**** generation,” saying, “All these people that say, ‘Oh, you can’t do that, and you can’t do this, and you can’t say that.’ I guess it’s just the times.” The Unforgiven star also blasted the current generation as one where “nobody wants to work.” He explained, “That’s why people are saying, ‘Why should I work? I’ll get something for nothing, maybe.’ And going around and talking about going to college for free.”

In Gran Torino, Eastwood cast newcomer Bee Vang as the Vietnamese teenager who steals his beloved car. Vang later spoke out in a piece for NBC News claims Eastwood was “mainstreaming anti-Asian racism” in Gran Torino. “At the time, there was a lot of discussion about whether the movie’s slurs were insensitive and gratuitous or simply ‘harmless jokes,’” Vang wrote. “I found it unnerving, the laughter that the slurs elicited in theaters with mainly white audiences,” Vang said. “And it was always white people who would say, ‘Can’t you take a joke?’”

However, Eastwood thinks much differently about Gran Torino, a film that grossed $270 million worldwide. “I’ll tell you why I liked it, and I think that’s maybe why Americans did, too,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s about a guy who’s a racist, a hard-ass. He didn’t like numbers much, of any kind. But he learns to appreciate people that he really hates.”