On Sunday, Clayton Marquez and Joey Salazar received a phone call from Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. that a “very important person” would like to eat at their bar the following day.

Brix Sports Bar & Grill in Trinidad is not typically open on Mondays, but owners Marquez and Salazar made an exception on Monday for actor and director Clint Eastwood, 88, and his crew. Eastwood ordered a salmon and asparagus plate.

Eastwood is directing and starring in an upcoming movie titled, “The Mule.” He’ll be playing Earl Stone. According to Internet Movie Database, the film is about “A 90-year-old horticulturist and WWII veteran (who) is caught transporting $3 million worth of cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel.” Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña and Eastwood’s daughter, Alison Eastwood, are also set to star.

Marquez and Salazar said the crew told them they have been filming in several locations across the country. Salazar said their last known stop before Trinidad was in Hatch, N.M.

Today, Marquez and Salazar said the crew is headed up Interstate 25 through the Colorado Springs and Pueblo area toward Denver.

Salazar said it sounded like Eastwood, who his crew affectionately called “the boss,” is picking locations at random.

“It sounded like he was picking locations while they were driving based on beauty,” Salazar said.

Mariel Rodriguez-McGill, deputy film commissioner for Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, confirmed Eastwood was in the area for two days, so most likely through Tuesday.

“He’s filming in various locations across the state,” said Rodriguez-McGill. “I don’t know the exact locations, but I know they’re filming up the I-25 corridor.”

Donald Zuckerman, Colorado State Commissioner of Film, TV and Media, confirmed that the crew started its day at Cave of the Winds Mountain Park in Manitou Springs.

Zuckerman said that they’d later be driving to Fort Morgan, stopping randomly along Interstate 76 to film driving scenes.

“They’re shooting out in the corn fields in really rural areas,” he said.

The crew had originally planned on filming in Texas and Oklahoma but came to Colorado instead, Zuckerman said. They’re filming without state incentives.

After wrapping up in Colorado, Zuckerman said that Eastwood and his crew are headed back to New Mexico on Wednesday.

Film production folks contacted the Colorado Springs Film Commission last week requesting possible assistance in arranging two road scenes in front of Garden of the Gods and through Ute Pass, said Chelsy Offutt, director of communications for Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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