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    George Clooney Hospitalized With Stomach Pains Due to Extreme Weight Loss for 'Midnight Sky' Role

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    The Oscar-winning actor reveals he landed in hospital after struggling with stomach pains due to weight loss as he prepared for his role as a desperate astronomer in a new movie.

    Dec 10, 2020
    AceShowbiz – George Clooney was hospitalised with pancreatitis after dropping close to 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms) for his new movie, “The Midnight Sky”.
    The 59 year old wanted to look the part as a desperate astronomer who had survived an apocalyptic event, but he took his weight loss plan a little too far and was rushed to the hospital with stomach pains just before filming began.
    “I think I was trying too hard to lose the weight quickly and probably wasn’t taking care of myself,” the Oscar winner, who spent weeks recovering, tells The Mirror.

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    “It took a few weeks to get better and as a director, it’s not so easy because you need energy. We were out on this glacier in Finland, which made it a lot harder work. But it certainly helped with the character.”
    “I didn’t know that the guy was 70 because I hadn’t read the book when I read the screenplay,” Clooney told Deadline. “I just knew that he was really sick… I was more gaunt and more drawn in.”
    “It was a balancing act. We had a skeleton crew, so we’re carrying camera boxes ourselves. You could only do a take out in the snow (in Iceland) without goggles and I could only last for about a minute and 10 or 15 seconds before my eyelids would freeze shut. So I’d have to come back in and they had a blow dryer.”
    “We were sitting in a van and they would blow dry my eyelids so my eyelashes would melt. Then I’d go back out and shoot the scene again.”

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      George Clooney Details Reason Behind Casting of Gregory Peck's Grandson for 'The Midnight Sky'

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      Praising Ethan Peck for giving a beautiful performance in the Netflix movie, the Augustine Lofthouse depicter spills on how they worked out the sharing of their voice to portray the same character.

      Dec 1, 2020
      AceShowbiz – George Clooney recruited Gregory Peck’s grandson to play his “The Midnight Sky” character as a younger man after abandoning plans to de-age himself onscreen.
      The Oscar winner met with Netflix bosses after deciding to direct and star in the new movie and quizzed them about the technology Martin Scorsese used to make Robert De Niro and others look younger in “The Irishman”, but eventually decided it would become too much of a talking point if he took years off himself.
      ” ‘The Irishman’ used it and had not come out yet,” Clooney tells Deadline. “They (Netflix bosses) showed it to me and I thought, ‘That’ll just become a topic then that people will talk about.’ I didn’t know how people would react to it at the time. I just said. ‘I think you’re going to talk about it’. It’s tricky because people know basically what I looked like when I was 35 years old.”

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      So he hired Ethan Peck, explaining, “We both have good eyebrows.”
      “He’s better looking than me and if I’m going to cast somebody why not f**king cast somebody who’s better looking than me…,” George adds. “I said to him, ‘Look, my voice is pretty recognizable, so we’re going to have to work together, you and I, and we’re going to work with… sound. We’re going to work with everybody on blending your voice with mine.’ ”
      “It’s broken down into hundreds of tiny bits and patterns because it can’t be my voice, because my voice was much higher when I was younger. Everybody’s voice is higher when they’re younger. Funnily enough, his voice is deeper than mine… He’s already got this fantastic voice. So I talked to him and said, ‘Look, this is going to be a performance where we’re going to be sharing the voice. I hope you’re OK with that.’ ”
      “He gives such a beautiful performance because he’s playing my character at an unlikeable time. The reason that he needs redemption is because of that. So it’s a really brave thing he did, which is he came onboard and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it. I’m up for it.’ ”

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      George Clooney Raves Over Young 'Midnight Sky' Co-Star: She Puts to Shame Lot of Grown Actors

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      Aside from praising newcomer Caoilinn Springall, the Oscar winner reveals that he drew inspiration from Jackie Gleason’s ‘Gigot’ when preparing for his desperate scientist role.

      Nov 24, 2020
      AceShowbiz – George Clooney is raving about young newcomer Caoilinn Springall, revealing she taught him a thing or two about acting on the set of his upcoming Netflix film “The Midnight Sky”.
      The Oscar winner has worked with kids in the past but his latest co-star really pulled the best performance out of the actor/director as he portrays a lonely Arctic scientist in the post-apocalyptic film.
      “She’s never acted before, I mean that’s just crazy to me,” Clooney tells Deadline. “So here’s this little girl, she shows up. And actors, kid actors in particular, but most actors, they kind of plan out how they’re going to do a scene. But she would just be in the scene and when we’re looking up at Polaris, and we’re sitting in those chairs, she doesn’t just kind of react like she knows she’s supposed to.”

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      “When I say, ‘Look up at Polaris’, she looks up, and then she looks at me. She really takes it in and it gives us the ability to keep those moments really full. She puts to shame a lot of grown actors, including myself, who had to prepare for a scene.”
      Meanwhile, Clooney reveals he was really inspired by Jackie Gleason movie “Gigot” as he prepared to play the desperate scientist in “The Midnight Sky”.
      “I remember seeing it (Gigot) as a kid,” he recalls. “It may be a terrible movie, I don’t remember. It was with Jackie Gleason… and he played a hobo – a kind of guy who couldn’t speak. With a little girl, and the mother I think was a hooker or something. I remember being really moved by that character because he couldn’t communicate very well.”
      “Whether or not that movie works, I don’t remember at all. I just remember as a kid seeing it and being affected by it and thinking there’s something about this inability to communicate and having to communicate with silences. So we had beautiful moments like that, with this little girl I found.”

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      George Clooney Gets Candid About Incorporating Felicity Jones' Pregnancy Into 'The Midnight Sky'

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      While he and his leading actress initially tried to hide her pregnancy during filming, the director of the Netflix film notes that the unborn baby ‘became somebody that was important’ to all of them.

      Nov 24, 2020
      AceShowbiz – George Clooney has Felicity Jones’ baby son to thank for making his new movie, “The Midnight Sky”, extra special, because her pregnancy news made him rethink the whole story.
      Clooney cast the Brit as an astronaut in the Netflix film he directs and stars in weeks before she realised she was pregnant, and when she told him, he eventually decided to incorporate her real-life story with the one in the film.
      “Wilber (son), while he was still in the womb, really was a character suddenly,” Clooney tells Deadline. “He became somebody that was important to all of us.”
      “The first thing you do is go, ‘Great. I’m thrilled for you’. Now it’s (your pregnancy) a problem for us and we’re going to have to solve it. The way we tried to solve it initially was by pretending it didn’t exist. Like shooting her from the neck up and doing body doubles and all that kind of stuff. On top of it being really tedious, it was draining the life out of the scenes.”

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      “We’re shooting scenes three times and she wasn’t comfortable with it because she was trying desperately to hide it, and she was showing pretty good at that point.”
      Clooney then had a moment of clarity and decided there was no reason for Jones’ character not to be pregnant too.
      “I woke up in the middle of the night and I just said, ‘People have sex’,” he recalls. “That’s what happens on two-year trips, and then I sort of pitched it to Felicity as, ‘Think of Frances McDormand in ‘Fargo’, where there was no real reason for her to be pregnant. That wasn’t a real storyline…’ Pregnant women do go to work every day, they do all of these things and they sort of never get represented.”
      “I said, ‘Let’s just make her a pregnant astronaut’. Then, as it went on, we had to start writing scenes to introduce that. It started to become really clear that little Wilber there was so important. He was the future and we were to guard him really carefully.”
      Jones’ pregnancy prompted Clooney to rework the ending of the film, and now he insists, “It ended up feeling as if it should have been in the script all along.”

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      George Clooney Altered Movie Plot to Avoid Putting Pregnant Felicity Jones in 'Position of Stress'

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      The ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ star reveals he decided to change the plot of his new movie ‘The Midnight Sky’ after his female co-star told him she was expecting a child.
      Oct 5, 2020
      AceShowbiz – George Clooney changed the script for his new movie “The Midnight Sky” after learning actress Felicity Jones was expecting her first child.
      The apocalyptic Netflix movie, also starring David Oyelowo, tells the story of Augustine (Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully (Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
      Speaking in a new interview with British movie magazine Empire magazine, George opens up about the change and how it actually made the story even better.
      “About three or four weeks into shooting, I got a call from Felicity,” he recalls. “We started shooting the Iceland parts in October of last year, and we were going to shoot the space parts in January. She calls me and goes, ‘Uhhh, I’m pregnant.’ I was like, ‘Oh, s**t! You’re kidding!’ ”

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      Explaining he considered multiple options, Clooney continues, “The first thing we tried to do was shoot her and just do head replacement. Meaning we shoot each scene with her three times: once with her, once with a body double, and once with nothing in it. But we started looking at it and thought, ‘She’s not comfortable in this sort of thing.’ ”
      “There’s already enough space stuff, on wires and things. None of us felt comfortable putting her in any kind of position of stress,” he adds. “Then it was really simply sitting down and going, ‘Okay, so, you know, people have sex! They’re going to be in space for a long time and she’s pregnant.’ ”

      “I think it ends up adding to the story, in a way,” the star, who also serves as director and producer on the flick, says. “It makes it kind of beautiful by the end.”

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