Legendary casting director on “The Godfather,” longtime ICM agent and supervisor, Andrea Eastman, handed away at 86 on Wednesday, sources inform Web page Six.
A household spokesperson confirmed the information to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, telling the outlet she died in her sleep whereas at residence in Santa Barabra.
Sources inform Web page Six that within the months earlier than she died, Eastman had alluded to the California Finish of Life Choice Act, a regulation that offers mentally succesful, terminally ailing adults entry to aid-in-dying medicine.
“She talked about it, but it surely was like a cup of espresso. She mentioned it in such a nonchalant a means, however she was critically conisidering [medical aid in dying],” a supply, who noticed her in latest months hanging out on the Polo Lounge on the Beverly Hills Lodge.
They added Eastman’s spirit “appeared up,” regardless of adjustments in her life. And though, she skilled well being challenges in recent times, “it was nonetheless stunning to obtain a telephone name about her demise [in the late night hours Thursday morning.”
A spokesperson did not comment on Eastman’s cause of death.
Other sources, however, confirmed Eastman’s health struggles, including undergoing open heart surgery six years ago that led to a three-month recovery stay at the aforementioned hotel in 2020. In 2022, she entrusted author Susan McCauley to document her journey in “Trooper at the Beverly Hills Hotel,” a children’s book about how her beloved golden retriever, Trooper, helped her heal
“I’ve had dogs forever and they’ve all been amazing dogs, but there was something very special about Trooper,” Eastman told Big Sky, Montana indie newspaper, “Explore Big Sky” in 2023. “I know for a fact I never would have healed so well and so quickly without the love of this dog.”
But it was the Blockbuster Age of Hollywood that made her a powerhouse in Tinseltown. She’s credited for discovering “Charlie’s Angels” icon Jaclyn Smith, connecting Steven Spielberg and Roy Scheider for “Jaws,” and helping her client, Billy Crystal, land his role in the 1989 classic, “When Harry Met Sally,” according to THR.
Eastman, who was also an exec at Paramount, managed Sylvester Stallone, Barbra Streisand, Katherine Heigl, Katie Couric, Dustin Hoffman, Brenda Vaccaro, Richard Gere and Tony Danza.
She had her final birthday celebration in June, celebrating on a Zoom party that brought out former clients like Heigl, Couric, Danza, Crystal, Marla Maples and Dyan Cannon.
