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A Movie Star Messed With His Mom

[Blind Gossip] In a recent interview, actor Holt McCallany revealed a startling family secret that involves a famous actor.

Holt McCallany is a very handsome, very versatile actor who has appeared in nearly one hundred movies and TV shows. The man never stops working.

The photo above shows him in Blue Bloods.

One of McCallany’s first film roles was as The Mechanic in Fight Club. That is McCallany standing behind Brad Pitt in an iconic still from the movie.

More recently, Holt McCallany starred in Netflix original series Mindhunter.

Here is McCallany with costars Jonathan Groff and Anna Torv. 

On to the blind item.

McCallany stars in the upcoming film Wrath of Man with Jason Statham, Josh Harnett, and Scott Eastwood. 

While promoting the movie, Holt McCallany did an interview with AV Club. That interview produced an interesting blind item.

Holt McCallany says that he has held a years-long grudge against a very famous Hollywood actor because of something that happened when that actor dated McCallany’s mother many years ago.

We’ve edited the conversation for clarity.

Interviewer: One of the themes of this movie is vengeance. Is there anything that you would like to seek vengeance for?

McCallany: Yes. I mean there are a lot of people in Hollywood that I intend one day to murder, but I haven’t killed any of them yet.

[Interviewer laughs]

McCallany: I will say to you that there was a famous, famous movie star –  and I can’t say his name because it would be really, really bad – but he is one of the most famous movie stars of his generation. He was involved with my mom before she married my dad.

Just as a point of reference, Holt McCallany’s mother was Julie Wilson, a famous theater star and cabaret singer in New York. She passed in 2015.

Back to our story.

McCallany: I knew from conversations I had with my mom many, many years later – while I was an adult – that she had become pregnant with his child and he refused to marry her.

And, for that reason, I’ve had this terrible grudge for a long time against this actor.

Wow. But wait. There’s more. McCallany eventually met the famous actor.

McCallany: When I eventually met him, I found him to be tremendously pompous and self-important and then I liked him even less.

Then I found myself working with his son, who looked exactly like him. I thought, now is my chance! I’m going to wait for this kid to make some kind of snarky remark and then I’m going to use that as a pretext to kick his ass!

Oh, and it’s not Scott Eastwood. I love Scott Eastwood.

As I was hanging out with this kid, as I was working with him, my feelings started to change. I realized that I really liked him and he was nothing like his father. So I was able to finally let go of that grudge and put it behind me.

Interestingly, McCallany credits actor Ben Affleck for helping him realize that it wasn’t productive to hold grudges.

McCallany: Hollywood is an adventure that is filled with disappointment. You have regrets, you have people who don’t keep their word, you have people who don’t behave honorably.

When Ben Affleck won the Oscar for Best Director, he got up there and said, “You can’t hold grudges.” I understood exactly what he meant and realized that he was correct. It wasn’t something that I had heard anybody say up until that point.

I was that kind of a guy, but now I have less bitterness about the business. I’ve been able to let go. But it’s a real thing. Any actor in Hollywood who tells you that they’ve never held a grudge is a liar.

BG Note: The speech that McCallany references actually occurred when Ben Affleck accepted the Oscar for Best Picture for Argo in 2013. Affleck was not nominated for Best Director. 

Similar: Suddenly The Family Man

Famous Movie Star and Son:

[Optional] Do you think Holt McCallany should have confronted the movie star directly? What should he have said or done?

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  1. Fablady says

    James and Josh Brolin. Movie is Gangster Squad. I think he looks like a spitting image of both of the Brolins as well….🤷‍♀️🤔🤔🤔

  3. DavyRogers says

    This has to be “Old Hollywood” with a NYC connection since that’s where she was most famous. I think the Anthony Quinn guess is the best so far, especially with the son looking just like the father.

    • ppfxxx says

      I think Quinn is a great and possibly underrated actor but I don’t think you would describe him as one of the most famous stars of his generation

  4. SilverLining says

    This was interesting to try to solve.
    Holt’s father, Michael , married his mother Julie Wilson in 1961 so my best guesses are…
    -Jason Robards (Sam); Jason just finished one marriage & married Lauren Bacall in 1961 so maybe why her when pregnant – is his slightly older brother, Michael Jr., really Jason’s son?
    -James Caan (Scott); James married actress, Dee Jay Mathis in 1961 so could have done what Jason (above) did?
    -Henry Fonda (Peter); just got out of a marriage in 1961 so maybe…

  5. AhhYes says

    When I looked up Julie Wilson, there is no mention of a child before Holt, so I’m assuming she gave the baby up for adoption. Which means out there, somewhere, there’s possibly a doppelgänger of some famous old Hollywood actor that just laughs and brushes off the ‘you look a lot like’ with a response of “Ha! I WISH!” and doesn’t even know – lol

    • mybellyistoofulltothink says

      Or an abortion. Maybe it traumatized her and that’s why Holt developed the grudge.

  6. OnePotatoCouchPotato says

    Famous Movie Star and Son: Jason Robards and Sam Robards

    Sam and Holt together in Casualties of War. Jason did theater as did Holt’s mother…..

  7. kellie82 says

    I’d have to guess James and Josh Brolin. He worked with Josh Brolin on Gangster Squad so would have been just a year or so before the Ben Affleck speech.

  8. butwhytho says

    Movie star and son: Kirk and Michael Douglas?

    Optional – he did the more mature thing so good for him! And honestly why would anyone work in Hollywood. This lifestyle seems depressing.

  11. Conchord says

    I did some digging and I think it’s Francesco Quinn, son of Anthony Quinn. Him and McCallany were in a miniseries in 1997 called Rough Riders (about Teddy Roosevelt). Although he wasn’t quite a “kid,” as he would have been about 34 when it came out. He certainly looked a lot like his father! Unfortunately he passed away in 2011.

    • birdfeeder says

      I think your guess is correct. He looked just like his father and was a nice guy and the ages makes sense. The James and Josh Brolin guesses have me laughing. Josh is far from a nice person and he does not look like his dad.

  12. CoCoJoe says

    Beautiful lady! My first guess was Kirk Douglas, but I’m not sure that Michael is such a great guy either.

    • wfreshie says

      I thought this at first but I didn’t find anything with michael douglas working with mccallay

  14. Kellikopter says

    Hmmm given the Mom’s age, my shortlist of culprits with lookalike sons are:
    1. Kirk Douglas
    2. Martin Sheen
    3. Donald Sutherland

  18. CheetoFingerz says

    John Cassavetes

    Nick Cassavetes

    Taking the high road and not lowering himself to the level of that creep is best.
    Karma won, that self loathing narcissist drunk died young .
    Not entirely wrong to have thrashed him for the way he treated his Mom, but it isn’t worth it.

    • CheetoFingerz says

      Anthony Quinn

      Francesco Quinn

      Seem to be the better guess. Anthony Quinn was a huge star. He was already married to his wife Katherine DeMille since 1938 but she refused to divorce him.
      He got a Mexican divorce to marry his Italian mistress and had 3 sons with her in the 60’s.
      If whomever didn’t want to marry her, it maybe because he was already married. Both men were married.
      I have heard Cassavetes was not a nice guy, my response was a bit much. My apologies if it…

  22. theamusedonlooker says

    This is definitely Clint Eastwood and Scott Eastwood. I know he says it isn’t Scott but he isn’t fooling anyone.

    • AhhYes says

      Actually, he has worked with A LOT of Hollywood offspring whose famous fathers are old enough to have had an affair with his late mother and produced a child, later in life, young enough to be referred to as a “kid”.

    • kitkatk885 says

      Agree… maybe trying to throw off the scent by so directly nixing the Eastwoods

  24. stupidtrista says

    Guessing James Caan. His son Scott is the spitting image. Idk if the timeframe is correct though

  25. Whisper says

    Movie star: Tom Hanks and his actor son?Sometimes confronting someone gives you your power back and the grudge is gone, but maybe it can damage a career in this case.

  29. Lby54229 says

    Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas?

    I get a Kirk Douglas vibe for some reason. He can’t say anything bc the man just died, and he would be around the same age as his mom. Not to mention about the other rumors surrounding other pregnant women and KD.

    • Conchord says

      I thought about them, but I couldn’t find any cases of them working together. By the time McCallany got his first acting role on a soap opera in 1986, Michael Douglas was in his 40s. And by the way he says “this kid,” I think it’s someone who wasn’t really famous when he met him.

  34. dishthedirt says

    My first guess would be Kirk Douglas and his son Michael
    2nd guess is Henry Fonda and his son Peter

  37. cagey1 says

    Hal Holbrook? Holt starred with David Holbrook in Creepshow 2. Although I have never heard anything bad about Hal Holbrook.

  38. kelkel23 says

    Josh Brolin for the son and James Brolin for the dad? Movie is Gangster Squad?

  43. crazycatlady says

    Movie star & son: Kirk Douglas & Michael Douglas

    He did the right thing by keeping his mouth shut.

  45. badgerette85 says

    Martin Sheen and Emilio Estavez is my initial guess tho I was also thinking Kirk/Michael Douglas.

    Op- I think he handled it appropriately and found peace w/o confrontation.