Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend whose career has spanned parts of eight decades. During that time, he's done more movies and TV shows than we can count, including plenty of incredible Westerns . But one role that made him an instant pop culture icon was the lead in 1971's "Dirty Harry," as a disgruntled cop with a big gun who takes on criminals while pushing at the edge of the law. Eastwood, however, wasn't the first choice for Harry Callahan, and only took the part after Paul Newman declined because he didn't agree with the film's message.

"['Dirty Harry'] was offered by an executive who said that Paul Newman had told him about it and had said it's a great script, but he couldn't do it," Eastwood said in a 1992 interview for Rolling Stone. According to Eastwood, Newman had turned do

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