George Clooney Says Biden Is ‘Most Selfless’ President Since George Washington for Dropping Out of Presidential Race Against Trump: ‘All the Credit Goes to Him’
variety.comGeorge Clooney has commented for the first time on his New York Times op-ed asking Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race. “I’ve actually never had to answer that question so I suppose I will do it here,” Clooney said when asked about it at the Venice press conference for his new film “Wolfs.” “The person who should be applauded is the president, who has done the most selfless thing a president has done since George Washington,” he said, adding: “What should be remembered is the selfless act of someone who, it’s very hard to let go of power — we know that, we’ve seen it all over the world — and for someone to say I think there’s a better path forward, all the credit goes to him.
And that’s really the truth … I’m just very proud of where we are in the state of the world right now.” Elsewhere, when asked about Apple moving the film from a wide theatrical release to a limited one, Clooney also brought up a New York Times report from last week by Nicole Sterling that he and Pitt were paid more than $35 million each. “It was millions and millions dollars less than what was reported,” he said. “I think it’s bad for our industry to have that be the standard.” But on the changing state of the industry and moviegoing, he said that streaming was a necessary force. “We need it.
Our industry needs it. And [streamers] also benefit from having films release,” it he said. “But we haven’t got it all figured out.
It’s a revolution in our industry. We need Apple and Amazon and they actually need distributors. They need Sony and Warner Bros, who have been doing this for 100 years.” That being said, Clooney did admit that it was a disappointing that “Wolfs” wasn’t getting the full wide release as had originally been planned with.
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