confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on Thursday, telling the outlet she died in her sleep while at home in Santa Barabra. <\/p>\nSources tell Page Six that in the months before she died, Eastman had alluded to the California End of Life Option Act, a law that gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults access to aid-in-dying drugs.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe mentioned it, but it was like a cup of coffee. She said it in such a nonchalant a way, but she was seriously conisidering [medical aid in dying],\u201d a source, who saw her in recent months hanging out at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, said.<\/p>\n
They added Eastman\u2019s spirit \u201cseemed up,\u201d despite changes in her life. And although, she experienced health challenges in recent years, \u201cit was still shocking to receive a phone call about her death [in the late night hours] Thursday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018The Godfather\u2019 casting director, Andrea Eastman, dies at 86. Instagram\/andreakeastman<\/p>\n
Eastman, pictured in 1981, discovered stars like Jaclyn Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Penske Media via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Eastman cast the 1972 classic \u201cThe Godfather.\u201d Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
A spokesperson did not comment on Eastman\u2019s cause of death. <\/p>\n
Other sources, however, confirmed Eastman\u2019s health struggles, including undergoing open heart surgery six years ago that led to a three-month recovery stay at the aforementioned hotel. In 2022, she entrusted author Susan McCauley to document her journey in \u201cTrooper at the Beverly Hills Hotel,\u201d a children\u2019s book about how her beloved golden retriever, Trooper, aided in her recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had dogs forever and they\u2019ve all been amazing dogs, but there was something very special about Trooper,\u201d Eastman told Big Sky, Montana indie newspaper, \u201cExplore Big Sky\u201d in 2023. \u201cI know for a fact I never would have healed so well and so quickly without the love of this dog.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eastman got her client Billy Crystal cast as Harry Burns in \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally.\u201d \u00a9Columbia Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
Eastman commisioned a children\u2019s book about her best friend Trooper in 2022. Celtic Sea<\/p>\n
But it was the Blockbuster Age of Hollywood that made her a powerhouse in Tinseltown. She\u2019s credited for discovering \u201cCharlie\u2019s Angels\u201d icon Jaclyn Smith, connecting Steven Spielberg and Roy Scheider for \u201cJaws,\u201d and helping her client, Billy Crystal, land his role in the 1989 classic, \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally,\u201d according to THR.<\/p>\n
Eastman maintained an upbeat spirit despite health woes. Instagram\/andreakeastman<\/p>\n
Eastman celebrated her final birthday via a Zoom party with friends in June. Instagram\/andreakeastman<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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, Cindy Crawford and Dyan Cannon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary casting director on \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d longtime ICM agent and manager, Andrea Eastman, passed away at 86 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,5782,362,75,282,11487,100772,23568],"class_list":["post-874103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-obituaries","tag-the-godfather","tag-the-hollywood-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}