Clint Eastwood, who has been named an icon by GQ, admits that he sometimes does yoga and cried when his daughter's pet cockatoo died. Photo Credit: Splash NewsNovember 18, 2009, (Splash News) - Clint Eastwood, who has been named an icon by GQ, admits that he sometimes does yoga and cried when his daughter's pet cockatoo died.
The 79-year-old is best known for tough-guy roles such as Dirty Harry. But the actor - who appears in one of five special Men of the Year GQ covers - admits he has a softer side.
Eastwood joins American football player Tom Brady, Star Trek actor Chris Pine, President Barack Obama and Hangover stars Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper by modelling for the special issue of the men's magazine.
And the Oscar-winner says that, while he still pumps iron, he also meditates twice a day.
"It works great," Eastwood says. "Because it just gives you a chance to gather your thoughts.
"I'm religious about it when I'm working."
And while he works up a sweat on the elliptical trainer for half an hour every day, he is not too macho to do a few yoga sessions with his wife Dina Eastwood.
"[In the evening] I'll pump some iron," he says. "And I stretch.
"Sometimes my wife and I go on vacation and she'll wanna do a yoga class, and Ill say: 'Yeah, I'll take it with you'."
When his 12-year-old daughter's cockatoo drowned in his fountain, he wasn't ashamed to cry.
"The previous owners put it outside and it got its wing torn off by a raccoon," Eastwood says.
"But it was a good bird. And my 12-year-old loved it, and so did Dina. I'd drive all the way from Monterey to Los Angeles and I'd bring the bird, have him sitting on my shoulder...
"So one day, I put it on the side of a fountain [at our house]. And I went in to talk to my wife to make sure the bird went to the vet because it needed to get its nails clipped.
"And when I came back out, it had fallen in the fountain and drowned."
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