These are some photos of Scott Eastwood at last week’s premiere of The Counselor in London. I saw the photos at the time, but I was too enchanted with The Fassbender to even pay attention to Scott. Comparing these photos to Scott’s now-famous Town & Country photoshoot, I think we can all say that Scott Eastwood is a pretty good model when he’s been professionally styled and photographed by someone great. On the red carpet? He sort of loses that sexy spark. He’s still good-looking, for sure, but in these photos, he looks more… half-frat-brother, half-metrosexual.

Anyway, as the world continues to fall in love with Scott, Scott keeps on talking (which isn’t doing him any favors). He spoke to Access Hollywood about his decision, at long last, to use his dad’s name for his career:

Scott Eastwood doesn’t need his famous dad, Clint Eastwood, to make it in Hollywood — or his last name! In a new interview with Access Hollywood, the 27-year-old actor explains why he didn’t use his father’s last name when he started out his career.

“Everyone wanted to represent Scott Eastwood, right? That’s the cheapest game in the book,” Eastwood explained. “I wanted to be an actor for me and to see if I could do it.”

Instead, he decided to go by Scott Reeves, using mom Jacelyn’s maiden name. (Scott Reeves, however, is also the name of a well-known General Hospital actor.) Eventually, he decided to embrace his father’s last name.

“Sure, I’ve had doors open for me,” Eastwood, who has had roles in Flags of Our Fathers, Invictus and Trouble with the Curve, admitted of making the name change. “But if you walk into an audition room and you can’t deliver . . . no one’s gonna hire you for the job.” He added, “I’m gonna look at the glass half full and say that I’ve had a lot of great opportunities in my life because of my father and because of the way I was raised and the environment I was raised in.”

Eastwood is next set to appear in the David Ayer-directed World War II film Fury, opposite Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf. Before he made a name for himself, however, Eastwood’s resume included stints as a bartender and construction worker. “People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn’t be further from the truth,” he told the October issue of Town & Country. “I was on my own just doing the grind.”

[From Us Weekly]

It sort of sounds like he tried one stage name – his mother’s maiden – and when he discovered someone in the union already had that name, Scott quickly gave up and resigned himself to being Scott Eastwood professionally. I’m just saying, if he really wanted to go with a stage name to avoid being an Eastwood… he had other options besides just that ONE. He could have been Scott Thunder. Scotty Bro Reeves. S.E. Reeves. Easty Reeves. S. “Wood” Reeves. Thunder Reeves. Broseph Reeves. See, and that was just off the top of my head. Now, all that being said… Scott looks so much like a young Clint (especially in profile) that his paternity would have been obvious to casting directors almost immediately. So it’s no big deal that he goes by Scotty Broseph Eastwood.

Photos courtesy of WENN.