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| | George Clooney: 'Who does it hurt if someone thinks I?m gay' I don't give a sh-t' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney has a nice interview in the new issue of The Advocate. I?m guessing that he did this before the Oscars, which means that George was probably in the mind-set of ?This will be published after I win my second Oscar, so I need to sound like I?ve just been crowned The King of Hollywood.? That?s not fair, though. He?s only slightly preachy in this piece. The reason behind the interview is interesting – he?s participating in a one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black?s play 8, which is ?adapted from transcripts of California?s historic Proposition 8 trial.? Clooney is all about gay rights! And he doesn?t care if you think he?s gay, either. Well? he probably does care. But he doesn?t want you to know he cares. You can read the whole piece here, and here are some highlights:
On why he’s fighting for marriage equality: It?s always been this albatross that stood out to me as the final leg of the civil rights movement. It really came to a head during the 2004 elections, when it was used as a wedge issue, and it was a very effective tool to keep the Republicans in office and to avoid talking about other issues. Well before Prop. 8, I?ve made the point that every time we?ve stood against equality, we?ve been on the wrong side of history. It?s the same kind of argument they made when they didn?t want blacks to serve in the military, or when they didn?t want blacks to marry whites. One day the marriage equality fight will look as archaic as George Wallace standing on the University of Alabama steps keeping James Hood from attending college because he was black. People will be embarrassed to have been on the wrong side. So it?s encouraging to know that this too will seem like such a silly argument to our next generation. There are even a lot of young conservatives today for whom marriage equality isn?t an issue. It always takes government an extra generation to catch up to the people.
On his bromance with Brad Pitt: I do think we?ve set the bar very high. People think Brad and I hang out all the time, but the truth is that we see each other very rarely, maybe a couple times a year. I?ve had great fun spending time with my friend again over the awards season. Not only do I enjoy him as a person and respect his talent, but I also love what he does in the world. I can?t speak highly enough about how hard he works at making the world better. I?m very proud to call him my friend.
On actors coming out: It?s obviously not the same as if it were the ?50s and ?60s with Rock Hudson. Look at Neil Patrick Harris. He?s a big star on a hit show, and no one?s telling him he can?t play a straight womanizer. I use Neil as an example because I?ve spent time with him and I like him a lot. People like Neil and Ellen DeGeneres have opened the door to making it easier for everyone, and now each person just has to figure out his or her own path. Maybe it?s as simple as a gay actor going to work and getting the job done.
On gay rumors about him: I think it?s funny, but the last thing you?ll ever see me do is jump up and down, saying, ?These are lies!? That would be unfair and unkind to my good friends in the gay community. I?m not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing. My private life is private, and I?m very happy in it. Who does it hurt if someone thinks I?m gay? I?ll be long dead and there will still be people who say I was gay. I don?t give a sh-t.
On making a gay biopic, such as The Paul Lynde Story: Yeah, I?d play the center square. The title of the movie would be I?ll Take Paul Lynde to Block. Listen, there are a bunch of interesting stories out there, but I just haven?t found a screenplay with a gay subject that felt right for me as something that I could direct or act in. I?m certainly not avoiding it. Whether it?s about being gay or it just happens to have a gay character, if it?s a great screenplay, let?s go do it.
George thinks Ryan Gosling is hot: Not that I don?t think Bradley Cooper is a perfectly sexy guy, but I?m still shocked that Ryan Gosling didn?t get Sexiest Man Alive last year. I thought he worked hard and ran a very solid campaign, so I feel that he was ripped off.
On Michael Fassbender’s nude scene in Shame: Well, c?mon. Every guy who saw that movie was like, ?Jesus Christ,? at the exact same time.
[From The Advocate]
I love that Clooney keeps talking about Michael Fassbender and, you know, the Fassdong. Clooney should be Fassy?s publicist – he?s doing more to get Michael noticed than anyone else (except for me, I guess).
As for the possibility that Clooney is gay – I?ve gone back and forth on it in the past. At this point, I think Clooney is mostly straight. If you told me he liked dudes who looked like ladies, I wouldn?t be surprised. If you told me he?ll date a woman even if she wasn?t born a woman, I would agree. But I do think he?s mostly straight – if he was gay, he would certainly have better taste in beards, wouldn?t he? He has sex with women. Woman with Adam?s apples. Women who are very strong, women who don?t mind dominating in some friendly games amongst consenting adults.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
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| | George Clooney & Marchesa-clad Stacy Keibler: tacky, bitter or beautiful? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last night, Jean Dujardin and Harvey Weinstein scored a major victory when Dujardin, a little-known French actor with oodles of charm and humor and barely any name recognition, ended up taking home the Best Actor Oscar. Didn?t Dujardin know that the Oscar was supposed to go to George Clooney?!?!? And so that became the conversation – how did Clooney lose what was considered a ?sure thing?? Clooney came into the awards season ahead of everyone else, he was the one to beat, it was his to lose. So what went wrong? Are we looking at what went wrong in these photos? Are people getting tired of seeing Clooney?s escort-of-the-moment on every red carpet?
Now, I?m not really blaming Stacy Keibler. She?s doing her best, she?s hustling, she?s trying to be the perfect Oscar-Date Barbie. Whatever happened between late December and today, it?s all Clooney. He wants to date C-list wrestlers and scandal-prone Italian ?performers? – which is fine. His choice. But he wants to dress them up and whitewash them – ?Pretty Woman? these girls and force us to accept them as his equal partners. And it?s just not working anymore, is it? That?s what Clooney?s body language on the red carpet told me – his face said, ?I might need a new strategy.? Of course, he might end up doubling-down on this strategy, though. Every time I think one of his girls is on the way out, she ends up hanging on for months longer. But it certainly seemed like he didn?t want Stacy to even open her mouth, right? He seemed contemptuous. Bitter.
So, poor Oscar-Date Barbie. I felt bad that she felt the need to dress up like a damn Oscar statue in this gold Marchesa. Why was everyone talking about how great this dress is? It?s not good. And I have to say something shocking about it too – I think Stacy makes the dress look much better than it really should look. Somehow, a busted dress on a budget girl equals ?not that horrible.? I did hate Stacy?s hair, though. And her earrings were horrible!!
Last thing: we got a promotional email letting us know that Stacy had used ?Biore Combination Skin Balancing Cleanser? before the Oscars. I wonder how much she got paid for that endorsement? Poor Oscar-Date Barbie.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney talks about his profound loneliness, all for his Oscar campaign | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney covers the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, and dear God, this man can TALK. He wants the Oscar so badly – does his blatant desire make you like him more or less? This bitch of an article is NINE PAGES. You can read the whole thing here – I?m going to try to do some highlights below:
George watches TV: He watches ESPN and Modern Family as well as everything from The Soup to Jersey Shore. He is in bed by 10?p.m. almost every evening, wakes multiple times a night and loathes going to bed without the TV on. “Turning off the television causes me to think, and once I start that vision roaring, I have a very tough time getting to sleep,” he admits. With the flickering screen, “I’m able to numb out.” Even then, “Without question, I wake every night five times.”
He drinks too much sometimes: “I drink at times too much. I do enjoy drinking, and there have been times in my life when it’s crossed the line from being fun to having to drink late at night for absolutely no reason. So what I do is, I stop. I haven’t had a drink since New Year’s Eve.”
Clooney?s not about the money: The combined budgets of his two current movies are a fraction of Batman’s and about the equivalent of most superstars’ fees — $12 million for Ides and $20 million for Descendants. Clooney took a humble $300,000 upfront for the latter. It’s one of his more intriguing aspects that he has remained so powerful and prominent in our imagination without bigger hits or taking more than scale — at most a few hundred thousand dollars, backend excluded — since the $10 million he received for 2000?s The Perfect Storm. He is singularly unmotivated by money, though time and again he returns to the theme, expressing an awareness that, if necessary, he will sell one of his homes. (He puts nothing in the stock market, which he describes as “Vegas, without the fun.”)
Clooney the writer: “I woke and sat down and wrote the whole scene in the kitchen between Ryan [Gosling] and myself: ‘You want to be president. ? You can start a war, you can lie, you can cheat, you can bankrupt the country, but you can’t f– the interns.’ ” He personally attended the 2010 American Film Market — that annual November gathering in Santa Monica where buyers and sellers haggle over rights — just to raise money for the film, then gave away his share of profits to get it made. “[Co-writer] Grant Heslov and I sat there for a day and a half, and they’d bring in 12 people from Japan, from the Netherlands, and I would pitch them the whole movie, and then the next group would come in,” he says with a laugh. “I was an encyclopedia salesman!”
How he lives, and THR brings up the Clooney Dilemma: Clooney’s house, bought for $980,000 back in 1995 with ER paychecks (hardly chump change, but not the kind of price that proclaims movie-star excess), looks as if it could belong to any normal man who happened to make some money, apart from its subtle and discreet taste. There are no Oscars, Emmys or other awards visible in public places, no servants bustling in hushed tones — just his personal assistant of many years, Angel, and a black cocker spaniel named Einstein that Clooney adopted from a local shelter. A few days earlier, Einstein ate all the loose cash left out by Clooney’s present girlfriend, Stacy Keibler of Dancing With the Stars (a former professional wrestler). The women who pass in and out of his life, few lasting longer than two or three years, have been the source of endless Internet speculation, likely because they rarely appear to be his professional or intellectual equals, and range from waitresses to models to an Italian starlet.
His relationship with Keibler, and marriage: He won’t go into his relationship with Keibler because “there is so little in my life that is private,” but he does admit that this man who once won a bet with Michelle Pfeiffer that he wouldn’t be married again by 40 hasn’t ruled it out. Divorced from actress Talia Balsam, he has in the past rejected the idea; now he argues, “I don’t even think about it, really.”
On Brad Pitt: “Brad is one of the great guys,” he says. “We’re good friends, but it’s different from what people think, meaning we don’t spend a lot of time together. He has been to my home in Como; we motorcycle together. But until recently, I hadn’t seen Brad in a year.”
Lonely Boy: “Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times,” he says. “The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it’s a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.” He adds, “I have been infinitely more alone in a bad relationship; there’s nothing more isolating. I have been in places in my life where that has existed.” He also has been cheated on and even ditched “and left for someone; all those things. And it was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw it coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get [one woman] back. But we all make dumb mistakes.”
A Brad Pitt story: “A couple of years ago, [Brad Pitt] really nailed me. He did one of those shows and they asked him when he was going to marry Angie, and he said, ‘I’ll marry when George can legally marry [a man].’?” He laughs. “He really got me badly, something I have had to deal with the past few years. But I could give a shit. I have to live in the world that I care about and that’s all that matters.”
Criticizing the Iraq War: “They did a half-hour show on Fox saying my career was over, and there was a cover of one of those magazines with the word ‘traitor’ written on it, and the White House was passing out a deck of weasels and I was on one of the cards,” he recalls. After initial anger, there was a brief moment when he felt afraid. “I called my dad and said, ‘Am I in trouble?’ And he said, ‘Grow up. You’ve got money. You’ve got a job. You can’t demand freedom of speech and then say, “But don’t say bad things about me.” ‘ And he was right.”
Bell?s palsy: At 14, a pivotal age for anyone, disaster struck in the form of Bell’s palsy, a kind of paralysis whose cause is unknown that leads to dysfunction in the facial nerves. Clooney has made light of the matter, but it lasted far longer than most of his friends realize. “As I started high school, half my face was paralyzed for six months,” he says. “That’s a long, long time. You wake up one morning and your tongue is numb, and you can’t drink. Milk starts pouring out of the side of your face. You don’t know when it’s going to end; you don’t know if it is going to end. And there’s no treatment.”
He?s tried coke: He drank, partied and even sampled cocaine, though he says, “I didn’t have an issue with it. I’m not a big druggie, not at all. Blow is absolutely a nonstarter.”
On his Three Kings director David O. Russell: “I saw David [O. Russell, the director with whom Clooney had a famous falling-out] a few weeks ago at a party. There was a bunch of filmmakers there. And I felt compelled to go over and go, ‘So are we done?’ And he goes, ‘Please.’ And I said, ‘OK.’ Because we made a really, really great film, and we had a really rough time together, but it’s a case of both of us getting older. I really do appreciate the work he continues to do, and I think he appreciates what I’m trying to do.”
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
You won?t even believe how much I had to cut out. Seriously. This man can TALK. He talks a lot about his childhood, about his back injury and dealing with years of pain (which he?s still dealing with). He talks about his friends and the lean years of Hollywood and all of that. Most of it you?ve heard before, because Clooney says the same stuff over and over. But it?s a decent read. He seemed really vulnerable in this piece, honestly. I do kind of feel bad for him. Poor Lonely Boy.
Photos courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, WENN.
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| | Brad Pitt & George Clooney's bromance dominates the Oscar luncheon | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are new photos of The Bromance of The Ages, Brad Pitt and George Clooney at yesterday?s Oscar luncheon in Beverly Hills. Jonah Hill was around too – because he and Brad have been bromancing hard during their respective Oscar campaigns for Moneyball. But George swooped in to claim Brad, and thus, we have these photos. Brad and George were also talking about each other during their luncheon interviews too:
George Clooney and Brad Pitt are one of Hollywood’s most famous friendship pairings, but far from the general consensus they don’t actually get to hang out that much, it seems. What a delight then it was to see the two old pals catching up at the annual Oscars’ lunch, an exercise in PR ahead of the big awards themselves for sure, but also a chance for some of the busiest actors in the world to have a long overdue catch-up.
“A lot of people at home think we all hang out together. I think they think we’re always at the Hilton drinking champagne. The truth is I hadn’t seen Brad in about a year” said Clooney to reporters including The Press Association, “So it’s fun to catch up, and it’s fun to see people I like and haven’t seen in a long time.”
Of course everyone was waiting for a bit of vintage Clooney and Pitt horseplay and the latter duly obliged talking about meeting some of his fellow contenders for the coveted Best Actor award for the first time.
“I met this guy named George,” Pitt said, pretending to struggle with the pronunciation of the name, “G-g-george, Jorge Clooney. Very nice guy. Very personable and very nice guy.”
In all seriousness though, the lunch was a great way to meet some of the new faces the established pair were up against, with Clooney saying how much he’d enjoyed meeting the likes of ‘The Artist’s’ Jean Dujardin and ‘A Better Life’s’ DEMIAN BICHIR.
[From Contact Music]
It?s funny to think that Brad Pitt and George Clooney are only two years apart in age. Brad is 48 – George is 50. Brad still has a boyishness about him, and although Anistonloonies are always complaining about how ?bad? Brad looks these days, can?t we all agree that he looks pretty damn good for 48? You could argue that George looks good for 50 too – although George has looked like this for the past 15 years, pretty much. Who looks better? They both look really good in these photos, but I’m liking Brad more these days. His hair looks great!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney reins in Stacy Keibler at the SAGs: improved or busted? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It seemed like George Clooney and Stacy Keibler were much more subdued at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night, especially compared to how they behaved at the Golden Globes. Last night, George didn?t let Stacy speak that much, thank God, and she didn?t get to do hardly any solo posing. Stacy has been put back on the leash after she overextended herself at the Globes. I wonder if George blames Stacy for his best Actor loss last night? I bet he does, to a certain extent. That being said, Clooney didn?t seem to be as aggressive in his Oscar campaign as he did at the Globes, either. He seemed subdued, almost tired. Maybe his back is bothering him? I don?t know. I liked his interview with Guiliana Rancic – he was really sweet to her, and he made a joke about dropping trou and ?getting his trou up? which actually made me laugh.
As for Stacy, she seemed content in her reined-in role. She wore this subdued Marchesa gown that I didn?t really care for – too lacy, too ?old Italian widow? for my tastes, although I appreciate that Stacy is going for a more demure look. She?s actively trying to look older, more conservative, more Oscar-voter-friendly. It also helps because George looks less like he?s escorting his daughter to an awards show? except it still looks like this. Stacy just looks like his young niece. Ol? Uncle George is sexually over-extended? but will that end up appealing to Oscar voters, many of them older white dudes who long to trade in their older models for a younger version like Stacy?
Also: I hated Stacy?s fly-away hair. Her hair issues are well-documented, and I really hope she goes for a simple up-do for the Oscars.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Golden Globes Open Post: Hosted By 'George Clooney Knows Best' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This is your Open Post for the 2012 Golden Globes, which come on in just a few short hours. Our host for the Open Post is everybody?s favorite, George Clooney. I don?t know if I?m even saying that ironically or not. Although I hate to admit it, Clooney is the frontrunner for Best Actor this year. I?m hoping Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender come in for some late surges. If Clooney wins tonight and he gives another ?Daddy knows best, sweetheart, just shut your pretty mouth and listen to The Man tell you what?s happening? speeches, I?m going to be so disappointed in the world.
So what will happen tonight? What?s our drinking game? Take a shot every time Ryan Seacrest treats the red carpet like John Travolta?s spa? Chug every time Ricky Gervais elicit?s a mass groan rather than laughter? Swig every time the camera gratuitously pans to Brangelina? If Michael Fassbender walks the red carpet and there?s a full-Fassdong camera pan, I?m totally opening my bottle of wine.
We?ll have all of our post-Globes stories and fashion posts tomorrow, but for now, just enjoy the red carpet and the actual ceremony with some like-minded bitches. And remember, ladies: CLOONEY KNOWS BEST. Just shut your eyes, open your legs and let Clooney tell you what to think, sweetheart.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Critics Choice Fashion: Stacy Keibler & George Clooney, glamorous in Armani? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney was anointed by Hollywood last night at the Critics Choice Awards. At least, that?s how it went in George?s mind. Look? one of my problems with George is that although he and I share many of the same political views, I?m usually turned off by his political and general smugness. I feel like his speech about Haiti – not to mention his acceptance speech – turned into a ?Clooney Knows Best, Listen Up Women and Children, I?m Going To Tell You What You Should Think About Important Issues? lecture. Do I agree with what he says for the most part? Yep. I just find his attitude unbearable sometimes. Although?I did think it was sweet when George won and he went over to the Moneyball table and he and Brad Pitt kissed each other. Brad was really classy, and he gave George a standing ovation. Their bromance is sweet.
Anyway?George was there with Oscar-Date Barbie, of course. This is one of the first red carpets where Stacy has worn her hair down. I?m surprised by how cute she looks with a blowout! She should wear it down more often, it really softens her. It makes her look younger too – perhaps too young, because it really does seem like George is showing off his daughter, right?
Stacy?s dress is Armani – Armani loves George, and Armani always ends up dressing George?s girls. The fit of the dress is great, and I even like the little cowl neck, and the sparkly straps at the back. This is a solid look for Stacy, one of her best. Her makeup is even subdued! No drag queeny makeup for Oscar Date-Barbie.
The camera kept cutting to George?s table too, and Stacy always looked lively and happy. I saw her posing for photos with Viola Davis, which? I mean, Viola has better things to do. Stacy seems like an enthusiastic puppy, just happy to jump around and get attention. We’ll see, Stacy. We’ll see.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
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| | George Clooney & Stacy Keibler at the NBR Awards: adorable or trashy? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney took home the Best Actor Award at the National Board of Review Awards last night. And his Oscar-Date Barbie was at his side, of course. Stacy wore this Marchesa dress, which? what does THAT mean? Is she trying to get Harvey Weinstein?s eye? Does Stacy want to get into movies? Maybe she just liked the dress. Honestly, considering the kind of crap Marchesa usually puts out (ice skater fugness), this dress isn?t terrible. Stacy even looks kind of glamorous. Plus, her makeup improved here, especially since she was looking drag queeny in Palm Springs.
As for Clooney and what this award means, and his chances in the long-run for a Best Actor Oscar? I don?t know. The National Board of Review is one of the most prestigious of the critics? awards, and the fact that they?ve anointed Clooney definitely helps his chances. Clooney is also helping himself by hustling harder than I?ve seen him hustle in previous years – I don?t remember Clooney doing this many television, magazine and newspaper interviews in a LONG time. And while he?s being interviewed, he?s doing the awards season dance – oh, he doesn?t care about the awards, but yes, he?s going to hustle and campaign because why not and why don?t you love him and just vote for him anyway? Whatever. Team Pitt. I would love to see Brad win over Clooney. And I would love to see Michael Fassbender beat both of them.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Stacy Keibler and George Clooney Are in Cabo | | Added 12 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Because celebrities work so hard reading words off pieces of paper, they need a vacation every month or so just to unwind. Eye strain is no joke! Hence, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler are in Cabo San Lucas, for the third time in the span of two months, riding around in golf carts and telling some poor Mexican to fetch them Perrier and a vodka tonic, post haste.
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| | George Clooney covers Esquire: 'Democrats are terrible at selling' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney covers the January issue of Esquire Magazine, the theme of which is ?The Meaning of Life?. Ugh, dudes. It?s just a magazine! Anyway, Clooney is shilling The Descendants hard, of course, and George really, really wants another Oscar. So instead of sitting down with People Magazine to talk about his girlfriend (that comes a few weeks from now), George sits down with his dog, Einstein, and talks about ?the meaning of life.? The whole article is written in George?s ?voice? – you can read the whole thing here. I?ll try to do some highlights:
On politics: I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, “Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.”
Clooney on the Democratic Party?s biggest problem: ?If this were a Republican president and Republican government, the advisors around it would be selling this as the most successful three years of a presidency in years. They’d start by saying, “When my guy took office, we were losing four hundred thousand jobs a month. That would mean fourteen million less jobs if we continued along that pace. And it stopped immediately. We saved the auto industry. We passed a health-care bill that no one could pass” ? although Republicans wouldn’t have wanted that. “We killed Osama bin Laden.” You could go down the list of things that you could brag about. But Democrats are terrible at selling. So they’re just kind of apologizing, and everybody feels disillusioned.?
Clooney doesn?t play the stock market: I didn’t put money in the stock market. To me that’s like Vegas without the dancing girls ? none of the fun, no gambling or dancing or drinking ? and you don’t get to participate. So I paid off my house in cash when I could. It’s about having a foundation for when things go bad. I still have that mentality. When things go badly, I’ll have this piece of land I can sell first, and then I have this piece of land I can sell second. You always think that way.
He?s not a balls-out Method Actor: Somebody asked me, How can you relate to being a father? Well, I’m also not running for president, but I played that role in Ides of March. I wasn’t an actual lawyer when I did Michael Clayton, and I don’t fire people for a living like I did in Up in the Air. Go down the list. It’s just a job. An acting job is playing pretend. I’ve been a child of somebody’s. I’ve been an uncle. All my friends have kids. I’m around kids. I have an understanding of what it is. And I also have a really good script that informs me what is required of this father. Because, for the most part, the father I play in The Descendants doesn’t resemble any of the fathers that I know. I don’t have friends who have the kind of issues that this guy has. So a lot of it is just the information you get from the screenplay. There are Method actors that are really wonderful. I don’t bash anybody’s way of working because the results are the only thing that matter in this game. But for me, I don’t have to do heroin to play a heroin addict.
On money, and doing commercials overseas: Ides of March I did for scale ? scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. And I don’t have any back end on it. So I’m not going to make any money after that. I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well. The wedding one in Norway was great. I usually try to keep away from anything that would have to do with me personally. I always think the commercials should make fun of me, sort of as a personality, but I try to keep my personal life out of it. But they called and sent the script, and the idea was funny. This woman in Norway wakes up and she’s married to me. It makes a big difference when you’re working with the Carol Burnett of Norway. She’s great, and it turned out fantastic. That commercial in particular helped fund a satellite project that keeps an eye on the Sudanese border to try to hold these war criminals in check. The satellite project costs about a million and two a year. So I’m always looking for a gig like that.
On relationships and marriage: People forget that I was married. I love that, Will he get married? I don’t talk about it because I don’t think about it. I don’t ever question other peoples’ versions of how they live their lives or what they do. I understand that it’s a subject of interest for people. But sometimes it exists only because it came up years ago. It becomes this conversation piece that constantly resurfaces. Everybody sort of has their own versions of what they think I am and what they think that is. I’m just living my life and doing the best I can. The rest of those versions, there’s not much I can do about. No matter what I do, I’m somehow upsetting someone in some way or making somebody happy. I can only live my own life and my version of it. My life isn’t focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I’m doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work. If I focused on results, if it’s only about the ultimate results, I’d be a failure in Sudan, I’d be a failure in film, I’d be a failure with my friendships, I’d be a failure in relationships. I look at it as an ongoing process.
[From Esquire]
I love that he talked about that awesome Norwegian commercial – go here to see it. He also talks a lot about politics and his humanitarian work, and he even talks about his dog. It was a decent piece, and the whole ?in Clooney?s own voice? angle worked really well for this particular piece. I get tired of most Esquire celebrity pieces that are just a lot of filler crap that no one cares about. Good read!
Photos courtesy of Esquire.
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