George Clooney at TIFF press conference 12. Sept 2015

George on Trump

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George Clooney: Donald Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants were 'idiotic'


The film-maker, at the Toronto film festival promoting political comedy Our Brand is Crisis, says history will laugh at the Republican presidential hopeful

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Anybody who says as intolerant words as those should be laughed at and that’s pretty much what history will do’ ... George Clooney at the press conference for Our Brand is Crisis at the Toronto film festival. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

George Clooney has said that Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s description of Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and “criminals” was “idiotic”.
“Anybody who says as intolerant words as those should be laughed at and that’s pretty much what history will do,” Clooney said.

Trump is currently the front runner for the Republican nomination according to a CNN/ORC poll published this week. During his campaign he has repeatedly demonised Mexican immigrants, suggesting that they are drug smugglers and carriers of disease. Rick Perry, who today became the first candidate to drop out of the race, called Trump “a cancer on conservatism” during his time on the stump.
Clooney, who said he was wary of airing his political views too explicitly, was speaking at the Toronto film festival press conference for his new film as producer, Our Brand is Crisis. Directed by David Gordon Green, the film is a political comedy starring Sandra Bullock as an American election strategist who is invited to Bolivia to help a senator win a presidential election. It is based on the 2015 documentary of the same name by Rachel Boynton, which focused on the campaign marketing that helped Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada win the Bolivian presidency in 2002.

Bullock said the film was about “big business and how we as a people are manipulated”. “We need to take start to take ownership back and look at things for what they really are, rather than what we’re being sold,” she said.

Her character, a quick-witted depressive with an alcohol addiction, was originally male, before she requested that Clooney and his co-producer, Grant Heslov, switch the part’s gender. Bullock and her co-star, Zoe Kazan, said it was significant that the character had no overt desire for children, nor an on-screen romantic relationship, though Kazan suggested this might have been because she was originally written as a man. “That’s not a great sign,” she said.
“Women aren’t just child-bearers,” said Bullock. “We have excitement about life and dreams and work. Sometimes that includes children and sometimes that doesn’t.
“We’re complex, crazy little creatures. We deserve to have stories that reflect that. And normalise that instead of it being a rarity. ‘Oh she’s intelligent? She wants to travel the world and do things for herself? Well, that’s weird’. That’s the way it’s played out for so long”.
Bullock implied that one way for women to get access to richer, less stereotypical roles might be to ask studios to switch the gender of parts written for men.
“We’re going to make 12 Angry Women next,” Clooney joked.
“We’d all be on the same cycle,” Bullock replied.
Clooney was asked which of Bullock’s roles he would play, if he had the chance to re-write any of her characters as a man.
“We all know it would be Miss Congeniality,” he said.
“Have you seen his legs?!” Bullock asked.
Our Brand is Crisis was given three stars by the Guardian’s Benjamin Lee after it’s premiere in Toronto last night. In a review that praised Bullock’s “top form” performance, Lee said: “Her comic timing, wasted in lesser, plane-ready comedies, is on top form and she imbues her neurotic character with more than the thinly sketched quirks provided on the page”.

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Another party yesterday......but no pics of George so far........maybe's he's left

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I just watched the video of the press conference from pan's link and really liked it. Just for everybody: The actual press conference starts after about ten minutes, before you just see the title: " tiff press conference our brand is crisis" and hear people talk.

thanks
great pics

Thanks  Love the pics . 

Love Sandra's shoes and the hot pink jumpsuit. They have a good friendship.

Well, George sure looks in his element here. Happier...like life has been injected back in him. Makes a great couple with Sandra Bullock, just going by visual aspect alone.  Amazing chemistry...Probably intimate friends.   

Clooney's in full on promotional mode for this film he produced.  Generate maximum publicity for Out Brand Is Crisis.   Same formulae: Headlining controversy. Like the Trump offensive comment about Mexicans from June 2015.  Got Clooney positive coverage.... perfectly timed 3 months later. Just in time for his flm release.

Love her pink jumpsuit  .

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Incredible amount of comments & shares in media about Clooney's criticism of Trump. DM has well over 1K. Sure got the press. Clever strategy.

I'm on the internet on and off nearly all day, and while I've seems tories about the film and Sandy, the first I heard about any comments he made re: Trump was here.  Pretty poor "strategy" if you ask me. 

Anyone who has followed George for 20 plus years will
know that he and Sandy have been good friends,
as they said, for many years. 
Its been described by Sandy as a non sexual friendship.

The press conference was very enlightening regarding
the film, but I felt sorry for the young lady Zoe who
was almost ignored.

Maybe a generic Google search of the name "George Clooney" will give you that as a return.  
Got him abundant press.  Not just the gossip sites.

Clever strategy on the part of his PR handlers who possibly suggested /preselected this question about a comment Donald Trump made 3 months ago.
All perfectly co-ordinated with the presidential campaign trajectory...and the thematic content of the film....

Even a story like "Most Beautiful Woman of the Year Sandra Bullock stars in film by Sexiest Man of the Year (Twice!!)" wouldn't have captured so much publicity as the Trump criticism.  [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20913899_20915288,00.html
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Yes, sure, George Clooney, who professed for years to guard his private life like a minotaur, would allow the public to know details about the level of intimacy of his interpersonal relationships.

Agree a bit, Jo. Same applies for Grant. 

Zoe Kazan is the granddaughter of Elia Kazan, famous director and producer and in her own right is a scriptwriter, playwright and Broadway actress too, and in one part of the conference Sandra Bullock was deferring to her about her experiences as a woman in these fields. 

And I guess everybody knows that at a short press conference the press will want to talk to the big players.............

George was nice
he invited Grant to answer too

The pic is funny

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Thanks Nicky - it tis, it tis!  ==================================>>>>>>

Okay, just another picture of George telling me to get my tush in the car cause it's time to leave.

PigPen, he's telling you that there's room for one more (you) in the car with us (him and me)!

Well!  Scoot the HELL over! Let skinny butt sit somewhere next to him.... or he'll make me sit in his everlovin' lap!!!Think he can handle 130 lbs better on that bad knee of his...

Don't you be lookin' down my bra now, MR..... just because this blouse keeps slipping down... or is that you pulling it down?!(giggles into a heap)....

melbert wrote:PigPen, he's telling you that there's room for one more (you) in the car with us (him and me)!

That must be before you accidentally fell ( read pushed really really hard) out of the car.

party animal - not! wrote:Agree a bit, Jo. Same applies for Grant. 

Zoe Kazan is the granddaughter of Elia Kazan, famous director and producer and in her own right is a scriptwriter, playwright and Broadway actress too, and in one part of the conference Sandra Bullock was deferring to her about her experiences as a woman in these fields. 

And I guess everybody knows that at a short press conference the press will want to talk to the big players.............

Oh thanks for the background for Zoe Kazan pan.

Yes I remember the great director Kazan. 
It's wonderful how the genes carry on so well in future generations.

PigPen wrote:

melbert wrote:PigPen, he's telling you that there's room for one more (you) in the car with us (him and me)!

That must be before you accidentally fell ( read pushed really really hard) out of the car.

Well Ms. PigPen, I would like you to see THIS!

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Well, if we're going to fight about something at least this is something worth fighting over! 

melbert... if you're content just being his fan... so be it. I, on the other hand  ......................


By the way.. when did he sprout man boobs??

Hahahahahaha I haven't noticed that, Pig Pen

Well, PigPen, if on the other hand...  you'd have noticed his MOOBS long before this!  hahaha

Man boobs . Moobs .

Pure muscle...Moobs my arse, HUH!

OK, chesticles then!

Yes wwhs....I was thinking that too.

Muscle....from all of the "push ups"
hes been enjoying.



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"A gentleman always takes the weight"