Both of their fathers are Academy Award winners, but Milo Gibson and Francesca Eastwood are on a path to carving out their own careers in the film industry.

Milo, whose father is Lethal Weapon’s Mel Gibson and Francesca, the daughter of Dirty Harry’s Clint Eastwood, are joining forces for a new project titled Clawfoot. In a press release, the film is described as a "cat-and-mouse thriller" about "an upper-class suburban housewife (Eastwood)" who is "psychologically terrorized by a manipulative contractor (Gibson), leading to a twisted battle of wits with deliciously unexpected results." The movie, which is currently in production, is directed and produced by Michael Day (As They Made Us) and written by April Wolfe (Black Christmas). The film, produced by Yale’s Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman, is currently shooting in Los Angeles.

Clawfoot won't be the first film for either of the two, but it's their mutual familial connection to two Hollywood legends that is bringing attention to their latest project. Of the two, Francesca Eastwood began her acting career first in 2014. In 2015, she told Esquire:

“My parents never pushed me into acting and for a long time, I tried to avoid it. I was planning to go to business school and head in that direction, but I found myself coming back to acting, over and over."

Following in Their Parents’ Footsteps

Mel Gibson in Braveheart
Paramount Pictures

Milo Gibson is one of Mel Gibson’s nine children, and the only one of his siblings is an actor, but two of them work behind the camera. Sibling Louis Gibson is a writer and director, and Christian Gibson is a camera operator. Milo made his acting debut in his father's 2016 World War II film Hacksaw Ridge. Since then, the 31-year-old has been in other films, including The Tribes of Palos Verdes, Gangster Land, Breaking & Exiting, and Under the Stadium Lights. Prior to that, Milo worked as an electrician.

Francesca Eastwood is the daughter of two Unforgiven stars, Clint Eastwood and Frances Fisher. Unlike Milo Gibson, the 29-year-old has two siblings who were long-bitten by the acting bug, Allison and Scott Eastwood. Francesca has been in a number of movies and TV shows, including Awake, Old, and the Twin Peaks revival and has acted alongside her mother in the 2016 film Outlaws and Angels, and she played the younger version of Fisher's character in an episode of Fargo. Francesca has also appeared in the E! reality series Mrs. Eastwood and Company, which co-starred her stepmother, Dina Eastwood, and stepsister, Morgan Eastwood.