| The Guardian - Culture: Film | | | | 'I was offered $35m for one day's work': George Clooney on paydays, politics and parenting | | by Hadley Freeman Dec 3, 2021 | | He acts, he directs, he even does the washing-up – is he the perfect man? Here, he discusses marriage, raising twins and his new film, The Tender Bar George Clooney is smoother than a cup of one of those Nespresso coffees he has advertised for two decades and for which has earned a highly caffeinated £30m-plus. With that, on top of the tequila company Casamigos, which he co-founded then sold four years ago for a potential $1bn (£780m), the ER juggernaut and – oh yeah! – the hugely successful film career as an actor, director and producer, it seems safe to assume that Clooney could, if he were a bit less cool, start every morning by diving into a pile of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck. So, George, I ask, do you ever think: “You know what? I think I have enough money now.” Unruffled as the silver hair on his head, Clooney leans forward, as if he is about to confide in me. “Well, yeah. I was offered $35m for one day’s work for an airline commercial, but I talked to Amal [Clooney, the human rights lawyer he married in 2014] about it and we decided it’s not worth it. It was [associated with] a country that, although it’s an ally, is questionable at times, and so I thought: ‘Well, if it takes a minute’s sleep away from me, it’s not worth it.’” Continue reading... | | | | | Alec Baldwin questions how bullet got on Rust set in emotional ABC interview | | by Dani Anguiano and agencies Dec 3, 2021 | | In first on-camera interview since accidental film-set shooting, actor says there is only one question: ‘where did the live round come from?’ Alec Baldwin has questioned how the bullet that accidentally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins ended up in a gun on the set of the film Rust, speaking out about the fatal shooting in a lengthy and emotional interview. The actor said he did not pull the trigger on the gun that killed Hutchins, 42, and injured director Joel Souza, 48. The gun he was holding, which Baldwin believed to be safe, went off during rehearsals for the western, in an incident that shocked Hollywood and prompted a reckoning over production safety and the use of weapons on set. Continue reading... | | | | | Single All the Way review – Netflix's first gay Christmas romcom | | by Benjamin Lee Dec 2, 2021 | | The streamer’s latest formulaic festive movie is more of the same but with an LGBT twist, competent but lacking chemistry When 2018’s likable coming-(out)-of-age teen movie Love, Simon was released to an audience of unprecedented scale, a common riposte was that it wasn’t quite queer enough. The high-gloss YA tale of a white bread suburban teen accepting his sexuality was picked apart for its sanitised PG-13 worldview and by-the-books storytelling, playing it a little too straight for some. But it was the film’s sweet vanilla flavour that made it such a radical step, dragging a story usually told in the dark from the arthouse to the bright lights of the multiplex, giving gay teens something just as big and brash as the many, many, many straight-skewed high school films they had grown up on. Because, for some, the fight for basic rights should also include the fight for the right to be basic. Since then, it’s been less open floodgates and more slow trickle for more mainstream LGBT content, from the cosy Love, Simon spin-off series Love, Victor to Kristen Stewart’s Christmas romcom Happiest Season. The latter arrived as both Hallmark and Lifetime decided to include gay characters as leads in their festive fare, rather than sassy confidants, with last year’s The Christmas Setup and The Christmas House (a sequel to which also lands this month). Inevitably Netflix has now done its part with Single All the Way, an inoffensive addition to its ever-expanding container of Christmas content to half-pay attention to, made notable only by its diversity. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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