You missed my point. All I'm saying is that all a director wants are actors who can act well. Viewers can avoid a film with liberal stars because no one is obligated to see the movie, but a director needs good performances, no matter what their politics are. Because Penn, Robbins and the like did give good performances, Eastwood did nothing wrong in casting them. And viewers are free to not watch the movie if they don't want to.
True, but what he is doing is effectively killing the appeal of his movies to the masses. Now if its artsy fartsy movies that he wants to make so only Sundance viewer see it, OK, but there are alot of very competant Conservative actors that could have pulled of the roles that Spicoli and Mr. Sarandon did. Sorry but if you can't separate the actor for the activism, your asking for boxoffice death!