Esquire Magazine has a great George Clooney Interview
Posted on March 9th, 2008 by Hot Momma
The April issue of Esquire magazine, has a great interview with George Clooney that I would highly recommend. The journalist, A.J. Jacobs interviewing Clooney shows him a laundry list of recent rumors and web sites dissing him, and George has some great responses that are witty and telling of his down to earth nature. During the good-natured Googling session for wild stories on the Internet about Clooney:
• They discover a Web site that calls Clooney “gay, gay, gay.”
Clooney not missing a beat responds, “No, I’m gay, gay. The third gay – that was pushing it.”
• Another site, a Facebook group called “George Clooney is NOT the sexiest man alive”
“Ninety-four members,” says Clooney as he looks at the photo of himself with a red X through it. “What the fuck?”
Clooney reads the site’s manifesto aloud:
Ok so i for one am sick and tired of George Clooney thinking hes the sexiest man alive, like jesus hes so old!Its just not right. That man is so full of himself it isnt funny. Anyways join this group if you totally agree with me =)
“Should I defend myself in this one?”
Clooney dictates and Jacobs types:
“That’s bullshit. He looks great for a 70-year-old.”
• Jacobs then brings up plastic surgery rumors:
It prompts Clooney to explain that when he made the joke to Julia Roberts on Oprah that “I got my eyes done, what do you think?” it got widely disseminated and printed as truth. He said that “They used to say you can’t make a joke in print, but you can get away with it on film. But now you can’t get away with it there.”
• Clooney says he doesn’t have hair plugs as is rumored and that his hair is growing too fast in the front, which is why people might get that impression. He insisted that Jacobs feel the stubble growing at the front of his hairline, which he has to shave regularly.
• As for what cosmetic surgery he will admit to, he jokes “I did get my balls done, though. I got them unwrinkled. It’s the new thing in Hollywood - ball ironing.”
• They also dig up a quote from Rupert Everett criticizing Clooney’s Ocean’s movies as a “cancer,” to which Clooney replies: “Where did that come from? You kind of go, Dude, weren’t you in Dunston Checks in?”
• Getting to some of the more recent rumors like his alleged run-in with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter pitchman Fabio. last fall (in which the model said he could beat Clooney up), the actor responds, “Yeah, that’s probably true. He’s a big guy. There is a moment when you are actually in the argument and you’re thinking, ‘If I do get beaten down by Fabio, that will be far worse than the pain. I wouldn’t shake that.”
• And what of Donald Trump’s recent “short guy” comments about Clooney? George, who is 5- feet 11-inches tall, responds, “I saw Donald Trump on Larry King and he was saying, ‘Clooney is a very short guy. I mean he’s a tiny guy.’ I’ve met Donald Trump once, and I was sitting at a table. He came over, shook my hand, and walked away. I guess I looked about three foot five sitting at that table.”
• Toward the end of the interview Jacobs asks Clooney if Does he ever go on the Internet?
“I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up,” he answers. “There was one a few years ago that killed me. Look up ‘monkey smells butt.’”
I type it in. Up pops a video of a chimp sticking his finger up his butt, smelling it, then promptly passing out.
Clooney roars with laughter. “He just smells it and goes wooo-ah and flops off to the side. That always kills me.”
• Jacobs then asks Clooney if he’s seen that “2 Girls 1 Cup” video? (For those curious but not looking to get shocked or offended, please don’t pursue googling for this video yourself!).
Clooney of course says he’s up to seeing the worst video in the history of the Internet, and there’s no turning back although Jacobs’ now has second thoughts.
“I can take it,” Clooney says. “I’m a grown-up. We’re all grown-ups.”
“It’s scarring. It’ll scar you forever,” Jacobs says.
“Is it long?” Clooney asks.
“No,” Jacobs tells him, “but it’s so disturbing. I saw it once and can never get it out of my mind. I can’t watch it again.”
Clooney “I want to see it.”
Well, he asked. After a bit of searching, Jacobs find the link. And clicks it.
After several seconds: “It’s not so bad,” Clooney says.
Three seconds later: “Oh.”
Another two seconds: “Oh, my GOD! Oh, my God!! Oh, my God!”
Clooney puts his hand over his mouth like he’s going to throw up. He bolts from his chair and walks out of the room.
Clooney’s longtime PR guy, Stan Rosenfeld, is in the room and then he insists on seeing the video too, saying he can watch it longer than Clooney did. He only lasted three seconds though, and Clooney doubles over in laughter.
One thing I really appriciate about George Clooney is that he is one of the few high profile celebrities that seem to drop his shields and totally engage in interviews.
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I love the Clooney. There’s no one else like him and I think he’s hilarious. He’s got a little spot in my movie-going heart forever.
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