Scott Eastwood is a man of many talents—one of them being that he looks damn good without a shirt on.
"It's all in good fun. My friends will say, 'Put a shirt on!' But I grew up surfing and hanging out on the beach, so I've sort of always liked being shirtless," the 29-year-old hunk, who is the son of Clint Eastwood, reveals in the latest issue of Treats magazine (which has some NSFW images).
Eastwood, who smolders in a series of sexy shot for the magazine's Hollywood Issue 8, opens up to the publication about his father's legacy, his penchant for living an "active lifestyle" and how he feels "lucky" to avoid the pitfall of becoming a Hollywood jerk.
"I'm lucky. I've got a lot of friends that will call me on all my bulls--t," he said when asked how he managed not to become an "a--hole." "They'll just rip me to shreds...Whatever I'm doing, I think good friends and family are key.
"You've got to do other things," he continued. "You don't want to be one-dimensional. I wouldn't want to be ‘just' an actor. That would be boring. You don't want to be too obsessed with one thing. I try to diversify my time with other things."
Such as?
"I like to live a really active lifestyle," he revealed (although we could've presumed, thanks to his super-buff bod). "Working out is really important to me. Staying healthy in a bunch of different ways. Surfing, gym, jiu jitsu… ocean sports like stand up paddle boarding, diving, fishing… I fly helicopters. I'm sort of a serial entrepreneur. I have a bar in San Diego and for the last few years I've been trying to launch a whisky company… so I have other things in my life—my happiness is not tied to acting."
While Eastwood has a number of projects in the works, the famous offspring insists he has no desire to be famous. "I've never been an L.A. guy – I think of it as kind of like high school. All of a sudden you do a movie and there's buzz and it's like you're in the cool crowd," he explained. "But you know it can go away as quickly as it came...You can't take Hollywood – or yourself – too seriously. You've got to just keep doing what you do and whatever happens, you can't be wrapped up in whether or not you're ‘in' this month, it's not healthy. I'm just happy to be working."
Noting he has a "great father/son relationship" with Clint, the actor also says that his dad never pushed him into acting.
"To be honest, he didn't care if I was a plumber or if I was an actor. He just said, 'Whatever you do, do it well. Be humble, work hard and be a man.'"
"But I didn't get in this to be famous," he added later in the interview. "I grew up loving my father's work, loving movies, and telling stories, wanting to be a part of that. To affect people. Whether they're laughing or crying. It's supposed to elicit a response. It's art, right?"