Actor Scott Eastwood, 26, son of the legendary star and director, was born in Carmel, California (where Dad was once mayor, you will recall) but grew up mostly in Hawaii with his mother Jaclyn Reeves. Clint didn’t even acknowledge his son’s existence publicly until 2002. According to IMDb, the younger Eastwood’s birth certificate states coldly “father declined”.

Ouch.

Now that his paternity is established, of course, the younger Eastwood has a relationship with Dad. His first role as an actor, in fact, was in Flags of Our Fathers, one of Clint’s two brilliant movies about World War II’s Battle of Iwo Jima.

Looking at Scott now, Dad didn’t really have much of a choice in accepting him as his son. You only have to take one good look at him to see Dad everywhere: The strong face with the large, angular nose and the brilliant, searching eyes (even if they are a different color from Dad’s).

Whether Scott has Dad’s talent remains to be seen, but one thing’s for sure: With Dad’s “unforgiving” genes, he can’t help but be HOTT.

Check Scott out in a clip from his 2011 thriller Enter Nowhere and see many more pix after the jump.

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