When it comes to expectations, the genius of George Clooney is how instinctively he has shaped them, met them and exceeded them, often simultaneously.
George Clooney opens the heavy wooden front door of his Tudor-style mansion, today festooned with a sweetly scrawled “Welcome home” sign, the handiwork of Alexander and Ella, the 5-year-old twins he shares with his wife, Amal. Inside, the house is in a state of quietly controlled uproar: Amal, a human rights attorney, is working upstairs while an HVAC crew fixes a recalcitrant air conditioning system.
Right now, Clooney’s recounting some recent old-guy wake-up calls with wry humility. Last winter, when he was directing “The Boys in the Boat” with a cast of young English actors in London, he set up a basketball court and bragged that he used to be able to dunk a volleyball and hold on to the rim. Trying to demonstrate the move, “I got my finger caught in the net and fell back on my ass,” he recalls, laughing. “They just howled. And I’ll tell you, the shock that it gave me.
When they were filming “Out of Sight,” Soderbergh recalls, Clooney had a habit of staying on set even when he wasn’t needed for a scene. He told Soderbergh, “I fought my whole life to get on a film set. Why would I want to leave?” But Soderbergh saw something else at work.his whole life want to get on a film set,” Soderbergh observes. “But he was also putting himself through school.
“Making peace with failure was always hard,” Clooney admits. “If you work as much as I do, failing can be frustrating. I take everything to heart. Nothing rolls off my back.” “He felt that journey intimately,” Hawke says of Clooney’s real-life friendship with Newman. “It’s interesting that he’s getting the Kennedy Center Honors this year because Newman got it too. They fit in a long line of really responsible artists, people who make a contribution to American culture and are civic leaders. Whether you like George’s politics, or admire where he gives his money and time, you have to admire his willingness to lead, and his willingness to care.
“Amal and I decided that our role has to be post-government,” Clooney explains. “We’re trying to squeeze into places where the government falls short.” As well as bird-dogging the trials
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