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George Clooney is everything we have seen, heard and read. He’s cool, he’s charming, he’s trying to be funny, he’s often successful; George Clooney is smart, and even in Zoom, he’s disarming.
But it turns out he’s also so much more than the smooth Hollywood gentleman we all know him to be. GMA News Online was among the Philippine and Singaporean press invited to a Zoom call with George for his new movie “The Midnight Sky.”
The guy is very proud of it. He’s headlining it as well as directing it, and Geoge was just happy to chat with everyone about it – how he ended up with the directorial job, how they incorporated Felicity Jones’ pregnancy into the story, even answered a few personal questions.
We are very happy to hear that George, in addition to being a gentleman, is also incredibly sincere and open. Here are some things we learned about him in that hour-long Zoom lecture.
1. Choose your words wisely. George is honest but respectful. It’s comforting to see someone choose their words carefully, especially during these days when people seem to equate dirty talk with honesty.
When asked how hopeful he was about humanity’s ability to avoid the apocalyptic situation shown in the film, George said: “I believe in looking at things head on, but I also believe in our best angels. Besides a pandemic. , I have had four years of mismanagement where the leader of the free world is calling the press, the enemy of the people and decided as a policy – where people seek asylum and he puts children in cages and I look at that and believe This is crazy.”
Where it’s so easy to lunge and take that free kick, George just glided with honesty and respect.
2. You don’t have much regrets. For George, his character is Agustín as a man who is dealing with regrets and unfinished business. “He is seeking redemption for his regrets, that is his journey. I don’t have that journey. There are many things I wish I hadn’t said or done, but none of the important things that you regret. Family, career, people you love and you take care of all those things that I feel very comfortable with. “
3. Your children have taken over your life. Comparing himself to Augustine, George said that, unlike his character in “The Midnight Sky,” he welcomes the disruption brought on by his twin sons.
“It’s fun when they interrupt a Zoom,” he said, adding that he feels very lucky to be able to get through the lockdown with the kids.
“Augustine doesn’t want this interruption. I welcome you. Would I like to leave the house once in a while? Yes. They turned my office into a nursery, so I have to hide a bottle of tequila in a teddy bear.” . They have taken over my life. “
4. Your experience from your days playing a pediatrician in the ER has been helpful as a parent. Even talking about his children, George learned that “nothing can really affect you.”
“I always thought certain things would overwhelm me [but] My whole pretense of being a pediatrician in the ER has been very helpful, as I pretend to be a doctor when my son opens his lips. You are learning things as you go and I hope in life to continue learning things as you go. “
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5. Consider “Midnight Sky” a meditation. George was first offered a role, and after reading the script, he called Netflix and told them he knew how to direct the movie. “It’s not an action movie. It’s more of a meditation, about life, about what we are capable of doing to each other if we are not careful.”
“I wanted to tell that story and luckily Netflix said it was okay,” he shared.
6. His ability to solve problems is incredible. They were already filming the movie, when Felicity Jones (Sully in the movie) called him to say she was pregnant. “I’m like, wait, oh no,” George said of his reaction to hearing what is supposed to be good news.
In the film, Sully is among the astronauts returning from space and, according to George, they tried to circumvent the fact that the actress was pregnant “because it’s a problem.”
But you can’t do it that way, he realized.
So they embraced the pregnancy of Felicity Jones and incorporated it into the film. “And at the end of the movie, you couldn’t imagine the movie without [the pregnancy]. “
“If you look at things not as a problem but in a different direction, then it works,” he said coldly.
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7. It’s poetic as hell. In discussing Felicity Jones’s pregnancy and writing it in the script for “The Mightnight Sky,” George pointed out a beautiful moment of poetry in the film that is so easy to miss.
“When the astronauts were listening to a heartbeat,” he began. “[Look,] They were hearing signs of life throughout the movie, and they found that life is inside of it, and that’s a beautiful thing, “George said.
8. George considers himself optimistic. At the beginning of Zoom’s call, George said he considers himself optimistic. “I’m always optimistic, quite realistic,” he began.
Speaking of the past four years of what he calls “mismanagement,” the actor said he believed what Martin Luther King said. “‘The arc of the moral universe is long but it leans towards justice’, I believe in that. And I do believe that we are going to head in the right direction. I am always optimistic,” he repeated.
9. He is fascinated by outer space. This is George’s third film about space and during the call he admitted that “the external rhythm is quite fascinating.”
“Humans only deal with the finite. We can’t understand infinity. We can’t understand eternity and the idea that there can’t be life out there is a bit silly I think. Space is open with so many possibilities. That’s why , I think it is infinitely fascinating and leaves us infinite possibilities and that is a good reason to be fascinated by it. “
– LA News, GMA
“The Midnight Sky” will air on Netflix starting December 23.
