George Clooney is promoting his new Coen Brothers movie, Hail Caesar!, so he made himself available to all of the entertainment outlets on the red carpet of the premiere on Monday night. And since a twee-looking Amal was on his arm, he got a lot of questions about marriage and how they make it work. George told ET that Amal has transitioned well into becoming a celebrity: “She does very well with that. It’s hard to do.” He also said she “likes working” and only visits his sets when he “asks her to.” When asked how they deal with time apart, he said: “FaceTime, we’ll do that; mostly it’s just: Try not to go very long… We spend an awful lot of time together. We try not to have these huge gaps.” Sure.
George has also been saying more words about diversity in Hollywood and #OscarsSoWhite. He was one of the first big-name (white) celebrities to come out after the Oscar nominations were released, and I still think his initial statement was a good start. He even listened to some of the criticism leveled at his own work as a director/producer. Here are some additional quotes from Clooney this week:
On the Academy’s new measures: “[It’s] a good idea but… The Academy isn’t the issue. The Academy is at the very tip of the spear at the very end. The real problems are the diversity from the beginning, the people who are greenlighting the films.”
He knows he could do more: “You’ve never done enough. I’ve directed five films, and four of them were historical, so I couldn’t change the race on Edward R. Murrow, but you know there’s one film I did that I could have, and I should pay more attention to it.”
The studios are a big problem: “It’s also who greenlights films, because when I go to the studio and say, ‘Here’s the movie I’m gonna do,’ they go, ‘Well, here’s the list of five actors that we’ll give you the money to do the film for.’ So that list has to change or has to expand, I think, in order for us to make those films.”
#OscarsSoWhite should be a bigger conversation: “I’m glad it is now. I think it’s smart. I think it’s a good time to have that conversation, and always good to have it in this town, don’t you think?”
The film he directed which could have been more diverse? The Ides of March, which was not a great movie overall. And I get that the studio has a lot of say in which actors are seen as “able to carry a film,” which is why we’ve spent so much time discussing Michael B. Jordan, an actor who has proven he can carry a film (beautifully) and who has been repeatedly snubbed for awards recognition. It’s also worth noting that Clooney produces a lot of films, and he’s the one involved in casting decisions at that level. Like, he produced Argo, which had Ben Affleck playing a Hispanic character. As for his claims that he makes a lot of historical films… that’s one of the problems. White producers want to make historical films about white people. And if anyone makes a historical film about African-Americans, it has to be about slavery or civil rights in the 1960s.
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Excuses, excuses, excuses. You like your white casts, George. Own it.
But didn’t he just own it? I’m no George apologist but I do like him. And yes people in George’s position do have a say in who to cast but if they want the studio’s to financially back their projects they have to let the studio have a say in casting as well. The only way a studio doesn’t get much say is if the actor financially pay for their own film. I don’t think George is trying to put out that kind of money.
On a different note that dress Amal is wearing looks like something a teenager would wear to a school function.
THIS.
This old dude cannot win at this point.
Yes, i understood he did.
Off topic: V, Kitten and Miss – did you see Clooney’s “ER Reunion” skit on Kimmel last night? It was cute.
That dress might be nice on Emma Stone but looks ridiculous here…
@Mia Girl-Not yet but thanks for the heads-up.
*runs off to Google*
@mia girl No. I missed it. YouTube here I come.
@Mia girl: not yet, but I will tonight. Thanks for the headsup!
But is anybody arguing that historical figures should have their race changed? No. I don’t think there’s a person alive who doesn’t get that a historical figure should be portrayed as the race they actually were. But there are plenty of cases in which white people got cast in historical roles not appropriate for them. Lee Marvin (white) played Ira Hayes (Native American). Jennifer Connelly (white) got an Oscar for playing Alicia Nash (Latina). Those are the problems. It’s not that white people are being played by non-white actors; it’s the reverse.
Only in USA Latinos or HIspanic are not white!!!
Clau, it depends… When most talk about “latinos” or “hispanics”, they are talking about mestizos.
The vast majority of Hispanic people are not 100% white, but instead, a melange of Euro, Indio, and Afro.
Here we go again….I am not going to say again that classing all Mexican people as people of colour is just plain silly – just came to say that Mexican born Anthony Quinn won two best supporting actor Oscars in the 1950s, so presumably should be added to the list of POC who won Oscars. He’s part Irish of course but that seems to be irrelevant.
In America the ‘white’ racial label has always been fluid so I understand the confusion.
Most of Latin America are mestizos. Miscegenation played a major part in our history and our history teachers couldn’t put more emphasis in that.
Yeah there’s white latinos because the Spanish genes carried through the generations. But for the most part, white, blue-eyed people in Latin America have direct European ancestry and belong to the upper class. Privileged and oppressive upper class. If you think social segregation is a thing in the USA then you have no idea what it is over here. Seeing white latinos like that being accomplished is no progress at all.
“Latino” is not a race but the vast majority of us have traceable roots that go back to the mix of European invaders and the aborigins of our lands (and in a lot of countries, Africans that were shipped too). Saying we have no distinctive racial heritage whatsoever is spitting in the face of our ancestors. And, you know, they were raped and murdered en masse by the Spanish so the least you could do is show some respect after all these centuries and acknowledge the fact they existed.
I was born here, and I live here. I know what our demographic looks like.
I read in an article that In Brazil you’re allowed to classify yourself as white on their forms if you look white in terms of skin tone. If I’m wrong, someone else can jump in and correct me (I’m just going by what I read in the article), and I’d like to learn more. So, in that sense, I think the USA might be a bit of an anomaly with the one-drop rule. The “procedures” for racial classifications do seem to vary from country to country.
Edited to add: I just realized that in Brazil they speak Portuguese, not Spanish, so probably what I mentioned here in relation to the Latino/Hispanic discussion might not necessarily be relevant.
I didn’t even realize Ben Affleck’s character in Argo was supposed to be hispanic. Is that true? How the heck did I miss that? I think I may have seen the movie twice!
“I don’t think there’s a person alive who doesn’t get that a historical figure should be portrayed as the race they actually were.”
Have you seen/heard of Hamilton? A multi-ethnic cast portrays the founding fathers and it’s *incredible.*
I would love to see this show but it is only selling tickets for late 2016 early 2017 and it is setting presale records.
So I guess audiences are okay with an African American George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Latino Alexander Hamilton.
But Hamilton is pretty cheeky in that it acknowledges that upfront. A biographical film that is striving to show the events realistically, as they actually occurred, would suffer for doing something like that. Hamilton isn’t trying to be a fully accurate representation. Good Night and Good Luck was – hence, Murrow had to be played by a white man to keep the image of realism going.
@ Sam
That’s true, but Hamilton should at least make a case for being flexible.
Here’s the thing, I think it is just easier for the average person to believe the performance when the actor looks like the historical figure. Still not impossible for a really good actor to portray someone historical who they look nothing like. I just think some of the these actors need to be given a chance. Hamilton is a good example and Grease Live also had a fair amount of POC that it didn’t have originally either, and it didn’t seem to hurt them. I wish we could have more.
Now I think George is not really seeing the issue either, because the fact is that most of the characters in even his historical films are not that well known. If he had changed the race or look it wouldn’t have mattered much. A good actor would have made it a moot point. He’s not very good at casting if he is only looking for people who look like a person he is only getting an impersonation.
This is a great point. Artistic license can be used here to change ethnicity or just reinterpret assumptions people have made about fictional characters (like when a black woman was cast as Hermione in the live HP play). Quentin Tarantino rewrote history tongue in cheek in Inglorious Basterds when Hitler et al died in a burning theatre… so what’s to say you can’t change the ethnicity of a historical figure? It could work in the right context.
Beyond Edward R. Murrow, I don’t think he was trying to get people who look like their respective characters in his period films. But Edward R. Murrow’s newsroom was filled with white people, the behind the scenes stuff of professional football was filled with white men, and the Monuments Men were almost entirely white, save a Japanese man who worked in his own country.
Now of course you could cast POC anyway, but that has it’s own problems. POC people would not have been able to be an exec producer on the news at that time, would not have been included in the beginnings of a professional sport, and would not have been recruited as Monuments Men. Is re-writing history so it looks like things were much better than they were a good idea?
Part of the reason Hamilton works with a POC cast is because the characters were so obviously not POC. But put a few black men in Good Night & Good Luck or Leatherheads or Monuments Men, and it seems plausible that they were actually there back then. A great deal of the audience will just assume that there were black men doing these things in real life. Which makes history seem a lot more pleasant than it was.
I would like to high five Pepper’s comment.
George should have kept his big mouth shut instead of trying to get good PR out of being a Hollywood spokesperson on diversity. You can see here he is already back-pedalling and preparing us for when HE doesn’t do it in HIS next movies. His films haven’t done well lately and he can’t afford to stack his casts with Politically correct actors. He’s in trouble – he’s had 3 flops in a row. George needs a big box office hit that he alone carries or he alone produces. He just can’t afford to cast for political correctness right now. Brad Pitt’s had a lot of recent successes as a producer he could do it. Every one of Clooney’s pictures will now be scrutinised after he decided to deride the industry for not doing more. Too bad for him and he will have to suck it up.
I don’t see it that way. I’m guessing he was asked about it, and I don’t think he’s claiming to be the spokesperson for diversity – especially when he himself is acknowledging his own shortcomings in his films.
I think he sounds sincere, but the test will be in the future, what the casts of his movies look like.
I’m brazilian and the soap operas here suffer from the same problem, if they are historic, black people are slaves, if not, they are housekeepers. It’s a conversation that needs to take place in all countries that had slavery or colonized Africa.
Now that you mention it. I think I’ve never seen a black actor in Mexican telenovelas (edit: there was one, the very handsome Jean Duverger but he in now a sports anchorman). In Mexican TV there is a huge problem with representation: we are a really diverse country, you find white people, asian descendants, native descendants, black/mix raced, but most of us are considered mestizos; Yet, most of the leading roles in tv are played just by white people or the lightest brown people, and it gets as absurd as them playing indigenous characters.
When watching the Spanish TV show, I have noticed that they will cast darker skinned males but the females are always white.
Yea, he definitely has a better awareness of the diversity problems than Matt Damon does, but it’s also funny that he says you can’t change the race of Edward R Murrow like that’s an absolute fact, yet he was fine with changing the race of the real-life character played by Ben Affleck in Argo (of course, I’m annoyed Affleck played any character in the movie at all) and producers are casting white actors as real-life Hispanic and African-American people. So there needs to be a recognition even of that one-way bias: only white actors can play historically white characters but white characters can play historical characters (real or fictional – I’m also thinking of Gods of Egypt and the like) that are historically people of color.
This!
My hardened jaded heart isn’t moved by Clooney. Fine, Murrow had to be a white man, fine, mostly everyone else had to be a white man. But the other side of movies is the talent behind the camera. I’m betting that the crew on Clooney movies, like most movies, isn’t very diverse either.
@Hawkeye
You so called it – point of fact, GC used to have 2 assistants both women Amy and Angel.
(Angel is now caretaker of the dogs – fun). Amy left his employ to become a producer.
Think about that – but his male friends all work for him – look at Grant Heslov.
Looking forward to his lurkers telling me I’m off base.
Fine – charity begins at home.
In all fairness, he did produce Argo but the only way to push Affleck away from the spotlight would have been to kill him. Look at Affleck now – he casts himself in every project he has, no matter the race, color, height, weight (or sex?) of the person he is playing.
Hollywood needs a crisis cell to figure out how to put Affleck off screen and keep him there.
Ben is the modern day Spike Lee. Spike used to always cast himself in his films.
I’m guessing that was part of the deal in the first place.
Wikipedia (so chance it’s wrong) says Clooney and the other 2 producers started the project in 2007, Affleck was not involved until 2011.
The real life guy he played said he had no issue with non-Latino Affleck playing him but it certainly was an opportunity for another actor.
Ok, not on topic, but I’m fascinated by Amal’s legs in that last picture. Her feet are literally reversed. How many people could stand with their right foot next to their left like that?
She looks foolish in that dress, imo.
She always wears dresses that are way too short, it looks like she’s wearing a childs dress.
He’s right, the problem starts in the production. As for making historical movies, I think people tend to make those movies based on who inspired them or who they identified with. Spielberg did Schindlers List because he’s Jewish and that’s his parents/grandparents experience. It’s also up to wealthy black people like Will Smith who produce their own movies to make movies about minorities rather than complaining that white producers aren’t while they do exactly as white producers do.
George’s wife has adjusted well to fame because she loves fame, I’ve never seen anyone so excited to pose for the cameras.
Off topic….she looks ridiculous. That dress would look cute on my 12 year old daughter. How can someone with so much money and access to designers, dress themselves so horribly.
My comment is OT as well but I so agree… She looks like a drag queen in a dress for a 5 yr old. And I just can’t with her constant posing, it’s so irritating. You are NOT a star Amal! Rant over 🙂
I was going to ask how old Amal is because that ballerina dress looks like it was made for a 12 year old. I’m sure it would look great on your daughter, IrishEyes.
Everything’s not about you, George!
Hollywood needs to stop making so many damn biopics, for starters! An original story has a lot more scope for diversity. They also need to stop thinking white (and male and straight) is the default for every main character. And stop acting like white people are the only ones interested in so-called prestige movies. And start hiring people behind the camera, not just in front because it’s even worse back there … the list goes on.
I agree. Generally I find biopics–particularly historical ones–so damn boring.
“stop acting like white people are the only ones interested in so-called prestige movies”
Hear hear. It seems the higher brow a production (film AND TV) gets, the less diverse it gets. I don’t much like popcorn movies, soapy shows or procedural shows. So most of what I watch literally has no diversity at all. And it p!sses me off.
Sorry but the wire was extremely hire brow and is considered the best show ever written and not exactly white. Actually any of David Simons work.
Yes I know it’s a small small fraction of the overall production. I just get very testy when people don’t remember and call out the Wire.
I think that’s the exception that proves the rule, K. Although it is one of my favourite shows of all time.
Also, I’m British so am often thinking of what is offered to me personally. It’s one reason I take a different view of colour blind casting for historical figures than is often taken here. We have a bigger percentage of period dramas and classic adaptations than you guys do and, for the life of me, I can’t see we can’t have POC playing the leads in Austen or Dickens adaptations, for instance. Or a black Bond, or whatever.
Even so, if you compare the diversity in, say, the lower brow Shondaland shows to the diversity in the higher brow US dramas, it’s more often than not the same story.
No you are right. David Simon’s work in drama is the exception. I can’t speak to British shows but I will say I don’t understand why they won’t do the black bond (although I also don’t get why we can’t let that franchise die).
I will say in the US comedy does better with diversity but they aren’t considered high brow and even then they have a long way to go.
Our TV comedy isn’t that diverse (but that’s on the intersection of class and race due to the influence of things like Cambridge Footlights as I’ve just argued on the Hiddleston thread) – but generally speaking, I think the overall picture is comparable on both sides of the Pond. It’s just the details that are different. But for both sides, it’s mostly the money-men/commissioners and they spend the bulk of their cash on things that are familiar to them – ie not diverse.
“An original story has a lot more scope for diversity. ”
If only people would go see original stories, but by and large, they don’t. Also, there are a lot of biopics, but I’m excited about the one about Jesse Owens coming out this month. I’ve always found his story so inspirational. But yes to everything else, especially hiring more diverse film crews.
Please answer me why characters made about Egypt are still cast by white Europeans?
The reason I mention so-called prestige movies, the kind that win awards, is that there seems to be an assumption that poc only like certain types of movies – action, low brow comedy, not serious stuff. It becomes self-perpetuating, the studios use it as an excuse to not finance and tell certain stories.
Hes talking round the subject here.
Nobody is arguing that white historical characters should be played by poc. But what about characters that are historically not white? When are those parts going to go to non white actors? Affleck in Argos, almost everyone in Ridleys Scott’s exodus, the new version of cleopatra that was supposed to star joile, etc etc. There’s a long tradition in Hollywood where white actors play ethnic characters.This is what he should have been talking about.
Michael B jordan shouldn’t ahve been nominated for creed, thought I should add that.
Abraham Attah or Jacob Trembeley deserved nominations for than him
Maybe not but he should have not only been nominated but WON for Fruitvale Station. And if any actor was going to get a nomination for Creed it should have been Jordan over Stallone.
Wrong again
Yea he is deflecting a bit but I do appreciate that he admits he personally could have and should have done better. Very few people have accepted any kind of personal responsibility on this topic.
Bingo. Very few. Have any? And most of George’s movies he’s directed have been low budget to just middle budget. He does answer to the studios to get them to even take his movies. He could do more, though, in front and behind the scenes I’m sure. He is one of the few I think that will try to effect change in the way he does his movies.
I like that dress. George sounds like he understands the issue, at least intellectually. We’ll see if he pushes for action.
Ok well he as self awareness, and Good Night and Good Luck was fabulous so I will give him that.
However, I agree on the historical piece if George Clooney wants to make them great but be diverse about it and no that doesn’t mean slavery or civil rights. Like did you know the person who invented stop lights was black- how about a movie about that. Or how about the man who invented potato chips also black. See two historical figures that changes America/world that we could do movies about. Also thank you Black History Month for those pieces of knowledge- I did not learn in school.
And I bet if we looked we would find a ton of stories like that for Americans of Asian, Indian and Latino heritage. But you’d have to look, I mean my god Hollywood dug up the story of the man who invented the windshield wiper; I think we could expand to historical stories about accomplishments of other ethnicities.
But better yet just right an interesting story and cast a diverse cast because the reality is you set these movies in New York, LA, Chicago and San Fran 90% of the time so it isn’t strange for people of all ethnic groups to be friends, date, work together or interact. I mean for the next rom Com don’t call Hathaway call Lupita. #nothard.
My favorite takeaway is ‘Amal has transitioned well into the “hard role’ of being a CELEBRITY” hahahhaha !
Sure George, she does work very hard for that.
Just because a movie is set in the past doesn’t mean that it makes sense to exclude minorities. PoC have been in the States since forever so making a historical movie is not an excuse for not having PoC in a film. Also, we really need to move away for slave films and Civil Rights. Why not a movie on the Harlem Renaissance or the great migration of African Americans from the South to the North. Maybe a mini series about the Chinese immigrants that helped to build the Trans Atlantic Railway and their struggles in America. There are so many rich historical moments for PoC in the States ( that doesn’t even include the rest of the world) that I don’t know why Hollywood only sticks to a handful of time periods to include PoC in.
If Hollywood could make a movie based off of the lady that made the Miracle mop, they can greenlight a movie based off of one of these time periods I mentioned.
I really like your suggestions. One interesting historical would Madam C.J. Walker who invented hair care products. Or Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, one of the founders of the first black sorority in the nation.
I would also love to see more minorities in sci-fi and fantasy. One of my all time favorite sci-fi books is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. It has a great multicultural cast of characters.
Well most of those ideas would make white people look racist, maybe that’s why they aren’t popular ideas? (Not saying this is right.) I know that many white people here do happily watch Asian movies (and TV series) with Asian casts made in Asia. I’m white and I never really felt like, hey I wish my shows had more Asian people or POC, but then when mindy and azis created their TV comedies I absolutely love both of them and I’m glad they had the chance to do it.
Of course she adjusted well on being a celebrity. That’s what you trained, dressed and married her for. Lol.
I saw the Acess Hollywood or Extra (not sure which) segment last night and he was promoting his tequila drink during the interview. Lmao. Is his tequila drink even taste good? Okay? Why does he need to promote it everytime he’s out?
A couple we are friends with drink Tequila, and they like his. It’s not cheap,
I think the success and popularity of Hamilton now automatically negates the “so and so was white so I have to cast white actors!!!111” argument. No you don’t. If your audience demands to see white characters played by white actors and gets up in arms over if they aren’t, then they shouldn’t be an audience you pander to.
And for anyone who wants to troll with “okay if you wanna do race blind casting let’s cast James Franco as Malcolm X!” Just don’t. Because one word: blackface. Two more words: false analogy.
True, But I feel like people that watch theater/ Broadway musicals have a bit more imagination in general movie going public. I just feel like they are more open to non-traditional interpretations .
Sadly I don’t think that’s true. I think the success of Hamilton shows that musicals and theaters have always had a very unique and varied way of presenting their art on a stage.
“Romeo and Juliet where everything is rapped? 12 man story suddenly turned into a one man show?”
The exact same complaints we’ve heard about people concerning James Bond and Annie would only intensify to the power of 10 if we actually dared to make a true historical figure black instead of white. That IS why people get so outraged about whitewashing, because of the hypocrisy.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with having historical figures portrayed by their actual race, and yes Hamilton is amazing but like others have said its not a movie it’s a play people are willing to use their imagination more in plays.
That being said we need to be accurate about the races of our historical figures. If they are doing a movie about the Egyptians then don’t cast all white people, cast middle eastern. If historically the character is Hispanic cast a Hispanic actor. If you’re casting Micheal Jackson regardless of what he looked like at the end of his life cast a black man! Oh and as much as she may want to Angelina Jolie shouldn’t play Cleopatra!!!
Beyond being accurate they need to broaden the subject matters we do historical movies about. We don’t just need to tell white history. Like others have pointed out this country has an amazing and diverse history with lots of great stories to tell. Hollywood just needs to tell them, and viewers need to pay to see them!
I don’t see how a movie or tv show is different than a play. All these have some form of the suspension of disbelief, and it is up to the writers and actors to make you believe. Unless you really believe in a galaxy far far away with light sabers and evil siths, I would say that plays are generally closer to reality than movies. Yet a play managed to make people forget a very recognizable on the dollar bill historical figure’s race. I think I would argue the other way that plays makes it harder than easier.
Yes it is easier to give the audience someone who looks like that person, but if the actor is talented it is not impossible for someone of another race to portray the part well. We have accepted many white actors playing real life figures that are hispanic and middle eastern. I think we can learn the other way around if given a chance. I also think that a lot of movies would be better if we picked the best actor and thought a bit outside the box, and I hope George with his remarks thinks about that too as he could help change it. Yes there are parts, especially when it is dealing with race, where the part needs to be a certain race. I just think there are a lot less than people think. I also think though that since POC are so woefully underrepresented in movies, tv shows and plays that we should try hard not to cast whites in historic or real life roles of other races. Yes that may be kind of against the pick the best person, but I think it has been so bad for so long we need to change the tide.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with having historical figures portrayed by their actual race, and yes Hamilton is amazing but like others have said its not a movie it’s a play people are willing to use their imagination more in plays.
That being said we need to be accurate about the races of our historical figures. If they are doing a movie about the Egyptians then don’t cast all white people, cast middle eastern. If historically the character is Hispanic cast a Hispanic actor. If you’re casting Micheal Jackson regardless of what he looked like at the end of his life cast a black man! Oh and as much as she may want to Angelina Jolie shouldn’t play Cleopatra!!!
Beyond being accurate they need to broaden the subject matters we do historical movies about. We don’t just need to tell white history. Like others have pointed out this country has an amazing and diverse history with lots of great stories to tell. Hollywood just needs to tell them, and viewers need to pay to see them!
Alas, there is def a small but loud group who have been shouting about the casting for Hamilton. Ala “How can POC’s complain when X person is cast by a white actor? Look at how popular Hamilton is, and that’s with Hamilton played by a hispanic and thomas jefferson played by a black guy. You don’t hear white people complaining about that”
Yes, they are missing the point entirely about the casting decisions, but there are def some rumbles out there.
Absolutely. But not every filmmaker or playwright or showrunner is going to want to make something like Hamilton. It’s inventive and exciting and bold. Which is wonderful, but some people just want to make true to life stories in a formulaic but proven way. And those stories can turn out great too.
Clooney could have made Good Night & Good Luck or Leatherheads or Monuments Men with a POC cast, but they would have been very different films with a very different point of view. Not everyone is going to want to make those sort of films. Clooney definitely isn’t that type of director. What he can do is look for stories that he can cast POC in, and it sounds like that’s something he’s going to work on.
I loved Ides of March and thought it was a really good movie and that Ryan Goseling was great in it, as were the supporting actors.
As far as Argo, they needed a director. Didn’t one drop out? Anyway, I’m sure how they got him was he wanted to act in it also. The only way Ben was getting lead acting roles back then mostly was if he directed them.
What abt his next 2 movies one he hired himself & the other one he hired his friends Damon & J Moore, he justified now after last time when he spoke everyone on Internet was pointed out that he didn’t put poc in his movies, this is because mr read comments on gossip sites
Just wanted to say that I really hope the diversity post of the day doesn’t get as ugly as it did yesterday. That was pretty bad.
Geez, which post was that?
I think I’ve figured out what bugs me about the dress-it’s the shape of the skirt. Imagine it as a sheath, with those rich flowers? The shape of the skirt is killing me. It’s like a toddler wearing a puffy Easter dress with a crinoline.
Thank you, I have been trying to pinpoint what really bothered me about this dress, because unlike some I don’t think this would look good on anyone over 10 yet I liked the idea. This is my thing with most of Amal’s looks, she is just a bit off somewhere. If one thing was changed with this dress it would be great. She needs to hire a stylist.
I understand what he’s saying… but George is the one who chooses those topics in the first place. He’s not being assigned these scripts like they’re homework. And he makes movies about historical figures, aside from Edward R Murrow would it have really been so horrifying to make casting changes to Men Who Stare At Goats? Leatherheads? Monuments Men? One could actually argue that different, more diverse, casting choices could have made those movies more interesting.
Except he took the lead in The a Descendants a movie all about Hawaii which had no speaking roles for Hawaiians while him and an all white cast played the descendants of an old Hawaiian family.
I think hes deflecting a bit but he did own his mistakes which i appreciate. Most of them don’t even do that.
I give him credit for at least answering the question honestly in my opinion. Now that he’s acknowleged he could do better with respect to more diversity maybe now he could try to be better.
George and Amal remind me of olive oil and popeye
I’m over Amal. Don’t think she’s attractive whatsoever, but not only for superficial reasons. She may be a fine lawyer. However, I thought she made a spectacle of herself at Clooney’s premiere…basking in the photo ops. Yuck
I would argue that race/ethnicity shouldn’t matter with acting. If minorities aren’t getting roles, there is something else going on… The acting talent of the person is the primary thing. An African American for example can play any role in Shakespeare-if they have the talent or desire. Frequently-in opera and plays- I’ve seen casting that is ‘outside the racial box’.
For example, in my town there is currently a year long Shakespeare festival taking place. Troops are coming in from all over the world to perform Shakespeare’s many plays. Barbara Gaines, a well known artistic director, stated that folks will see Shakespeare in some cases as they have never seen it before. i wonder why the big Hollywood studios aren’t doing the same thing?
Given the fact that George is playing Julius Caesar in his latest movie, I would like to say that if folks consider history and the number of movies that have been made about ancient Rome “by the 2nd Century, most of the Caesars were not even Romans – if one defines a “Roman” as being an Italian born in Rome or in the traditional Roman territories of Italy. In fact, most of the Emperors after the Julio-Claudians were provincial, or at best non-Roman Italian in origins.” For example, Syria, Africa. Yet, how many movies can anyone think of where these roles are not played by Caucasians?
Small correction- Clooney isn’t playing Caeser. He’s playing a 50’s movie star that is playing Caeser
Just t clarify, George is playing Caesar in a film within the film. He’s actually playing an American actor. Hail Caesar is about the filming of a big budget period piece shot in the 50’s.
But I completely agree, the white-washing of history, particularly ancient history, is a real problem.
I totally agree. We need films with multicultural casts. And enough with the slavery civil war films. The Birth of a Nation (from Sundance) should be the last one for awhile. I want to see variety. We all do!
Insert Aistin Powers saying “that’s a MAN, baby!”
Yawn. I tell you what when he casts one of his half Puerto Rican cousins (Ferrer’s) in one of his movies, maybe then I can buy this story.