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" Clint Eastwood has made light of the controversy surrounding his Republican National Convention speech. The Dirty Harry star made headlines while endorsing Mitt Romney at the Tampa convention by debating an empty chair standing in for Barack Obama.      Eastwood discussed the address with Extra, stressing that political pundits should not have expected him to make a traditional convention speech. &amp;quot;People loved it or hated it, and that&amp;#039;s fine,&amp;quot; he declared. &amp;quot;I figure if somebody&amp;#039;s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they&amp;#039;re gonna have to take what they get.&amp;quot; The Oscar winner went on to insist that he has no regrets about his remarks.  &amp;quot;I never look backward. It&amp;#039;s done and it&amp;#039;s done,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I probably would [say those things again]. I wouldn&amp;#039;t be afraid of it.&amp;quot; Eastwood previously revealed that he spontaneously chose to bring the now-infamous empty chair onto the Tampa stage only moments before his speech. His new baseball-themed drama Trouble with the Curve - starring Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake - opens on Friday in the US and on November 30 in the UK. Watch a trailer for the film below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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