Morgan Freeman Smiles withMillion Dollar BabyCostar and 'True Musician' Clint Eastwood at Jazz Festival

Mar. 15, 2025

Clint Eastwood (left) and Morgan Freeman.Photo:Lori McCreary/Instagram

Lori McCreary/Instagram

Clint EastwoodandMorgan Freemanare hanging out in California!

On Monday, Oct. 14, Freeman, 87, and his producing partner Lori McCreary shared a photo toInstagramof Freeman posing with Eastwood, 94, and a third man as he wrote that he presented Eastwood with an award at the 2024 Monterey Jazz Festival at the end of September.

“It was a great pleasure presenting my friend, Clint Eastwood, with the inaugural Clint Eastwood Award for Cultural Leadership at the @MontereyJazzFestival last weekend. Clint is a true musician: pianist, composer and a jazz aficionado!” Freeman wrote in a caption to his post. “We had a wonderful time listening to the incredible music of Kyle Eastwood and Mavis Staples!”

Eastwood, best known for his legendary work in Hollywood as an actor, writer, director and producer with fourAcademy Awardwins, sits on the Monterey Jazz Festival’s board of directors, according to itswebsite. Eastwood’soldest sonKyle, 56, performed at the California-based jazz festival on Sept. 29 with his projectEastwood Symphonic, which featured a jazz quintet performing with an orchestra ensemble that played music from his father’s movies. The festival alsoincludeda conversation with Kyle regarding his work in film and music and Clint’s movies.

Producer McCreary, who co-founded the company Revelations Entertainment with Freeman, additionally shared a photo toInstagramof him and Eastwood posing together at the festival back on Oct. 3 and wrote she had a “fantastic time” at the festival.

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This is not the first occasion that Eastwood has been honored at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Back in 2007, the Berklee College of Musicgranted Eastwood an honorary doctorate degreeduring the festival, citing his interest in jazz through his film soundtracks, individual work as a composer and documentaries Eastwood has made about major figures in jazz.

Even at 94, Eastwood is preparing to release his most recent movie as a director,Juror #2, in select theaters on Nov. 1; the film stars an ensemble cast includingNicholas Hoult,Toni Collette,Zoey Deutch,Kiefer Sutherland,Gabriel Basso,Leslie Bibb,Chris MessinaandJ. K. Simmons. Eastwood last released a movie in 2021 withCry Macho, which he also starred in.

Freeman also continues to act frequently, having appeared in two movies in 2024, includingMy Dead Friend ZoeandGunner.

source: people.com