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George Clooney Interview For His Engaging Thriller ‘The Ides of March’
Oct 20th
Directed and starring George Clooney, ‘The Ides of March’ takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, where an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate’s shot at the presidency.
In the film, George Clooney plays Governor Morris, a candidate running in the presidential primary race for the Democratic Party ticket. Ryan Gosling plays his press spokesman, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays his campaign manager, Paul Giamatti plays a rival campaign manager, Marisa Tomei plays a reporter for the New York Times, Evan Rachel Wood plays an intern for the Morris campaign, Jeffrey Wright plays a key senator, and Max Minghella plays Ben Harper, a campaign worker for Morris. ‘The Ides Of March’ is out now in the US, it hits UK cinemas October 28th. The movie will be Clooney’s fourth film as director after ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Leatherheads.’
Beau Williamson’s play ‘Farragut North’ was the basis for ‘The Ides of March,’ what was it about the play that interested you in telling this story?
George Clooney: We read the play itself, Grant Heslov and I, who’s my writing and producing partner, we had been working on a morality tale, more on the lines of Wall Street – strangely, funnily enough (laughs). We thought there was a way to tie those two together, I liked the idea of the questions the play was raising. My character isn’t in the play at all, he’s spoken about but he’s not actually in it. I thought it would be a fun world to talk about morality and ask questions.
This story of morality, you can pretty much put it in any situation, placing it in a political scenario must heighten the stakes though?
George Clooney: Oh yeah, I don’t really think of this as a political film, you could put this story in Wall Street, you could pretty much put it anywhere. It’s all the same issues, issues of morality, issues of whether or not your willing to trade your soul for an outcome. I never thought of it as a political film, I liked some of the things that these characters had to do, and politics certainly raises the stakes. These power games, I don’t think they’re anything new, they’ve been going on since Julius Caesar. I just think the fact that we continue to repeat them is our own definition of insanity.
Marisa Tomei & Max Minghella Interview For ‘The Ides of March’
Sep 22nd
Directed and starring George Clooney, ‘The Ides of March’ takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, where an up-and-coming campaign press secretary (Ryan Gosling) finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate’s shot at the presidency. Alongside Ryan Gosling and George Clooney the film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Max Minghella, Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood. ‘The Ides Of March’ opens in cinemas October 7th in the US and October 28th in the UK. The movie will be Clooney’s fourth film as director after ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Leatherheads.’ Check out what Marisa Tomei and Max Mingella had to say about the film below.
The cast for this film is stellar, portraying some amazing characters…
Marisa Tomei: Yeah, my character Ida, she’s the top dog in her department at the New York Times, she’s super alpha (laughs). She’s really great at her job, she’s done it for many years and she enjoys it, she really loves the game. She really loves the game and using her intellect, she likes outfoxing people – she’s an adrenaline junky, really they’re all adrenaline junkies, she just needs it. With that, the line blurs between the altruistic part of herself that feels an obligation to the public with delivering them the real news, and then the part of her that is really in it for her (laughs). She’s intelligent enough to enjoy sparring, the game of egging them on, a lot of it is gamesmanship.
Ryan Gosling Interview For ‘The Ides of March’
Sep 13th
Directed and starring George Clooney, ‘The Ides of March’ takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, where an up-and-coming campaign press secretary (Ryan Gosling) finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate’s shot at the presidency. Alongside Ryan Gosling and George Clooney the film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Max Minghellal, Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood. ‘The Ides Of March’ opens in cinemas October 7th in the US and October 28th in the UK. The movie will be Clooney’s fourth film as director after ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Leatherheads.’ Check out what Ryan Gosling had to say about the film below.
Can you talk a little about your character Stephen Meyers?
Ryan Gosling: I play a character who’s basically played a lot of dirty pool, and is really excited not to have to do that anymore because he’s working for a guy who’s a good guy, and doesn’t want to do that – so he’s over the moon about that. Then he’s forced with this moral dilemma, which is that it looks like his guy is not going to get the job. So should he dance with the one who brung him, or should he go with the guy who’s going to win? Because if he goes with that guy, he’s gonna get into the Whitehouse and he’ll be able to really make a difference in people’s lives. So he’s put in this really morally compromising position. He makes choices that create an internal landscape for himself where his soul can’t really live or function in those conditions.
George Clooney Interview For ‘The Ides of March’
Sep 6th
Directed and starring George Clooney, ‘The Ides of March’ takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, where an up-and-coming campaign press secretary (Ryan Gosling) finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate’s shot at the presidency. Alongside Ryan Gosling and George Clooney the film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Max Minghellal Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood. ‘The Ides Of March’ opens in cinemas October 7th in the US and October 28th in the UK. The movie will be Clooney’s fourth film as director after ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Leatherheads.’
This story of morality, you can pretty much put it in any situation, placing it in a political scenario must heighten the stakes though?
George Clooney: Oh yeah, I don’t really think of this as a political film, I figure you could put this story in Wall Street, you could pretty much put it anywhere. It’s all the same issues, issues of morality, issues of whether or not you’re willing to trade your soul for an outcome. I never thought of it as a political film, I liked some of the things that these characters had to do, and politics certainly raises the stakes. These power games, I don’t they’re anything new, they’ve been going on since Julius Caesar (laughs). I just think the fact that we continue to repeat them is our own definition of insanity.
Grant Heslov (co-writer and co-producer) and I were working on a piece about a morality play, a idea of the argument of ‘do the ends justify the means at any point?’ We were in the middle of doing another piece and then this play came around, and the play took place with these really extraordinary characters, inside a Democratic primary. We felt that the stakes get raised very quickly with that, we thought that was a very interesting place to place what we had been working on. So it was sort of Grant and I taking a piece of what we were working on, and we found something that matched it that gave us a real home.
Second Clip From ‘The Ides of March’ – Featuring Ryan Gosling & George Clooney
Sep 3rd
This new clip has hit the interwebs from George Clooney’s upcoming political drama ‘The Ides of March.’ The film is based on the 2008 play ‘Farragut North’ by Beau Williamson, the likes of Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Max Minghella and Clooney star, with Clooney also undertaking directional duties. Gosling will play Stephen Meyers, the young campaign mastermind to Governor Morris (George Clooney), who is campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Giamatti will play a rival candidate’s campaign leader.
‘The Ides Of March’ is currently pencilled in for release October 7th in the US and October 28th in the UK. I expect this film to feature heavily during next years awards season. Definitely a flick to keep an eye on. The movie will be Clooney’s fourth film as director after ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Leatherheads.’
Debut Clip From George Clooney’s ‘The Ides of March’ – Featuring Ryan Gosling & Evan Rachel Wood
Aug 30th
Yahoo! Movies have released this first clip from George Clooney’s upcoming political drama ‘The Ides of March.’ The film is based on the 2008 play ‘Farragut North’ by Beau Williamson, the likes of Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Max Minghella and Clooney star, with Clooney also undertaking directional duties. Gosling will play Stephen Meyers, the young campaign mastermind to Governor Morris (George Clooney), who is campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Giamatti will play a rival candidate’s campaign leader.
‘The Ides Of March’ is currently pencilled in for release October 7th in the US and October 28th in the UK. I expect this film to feature heavily during next years awards season. Definitely a flick to keep an eye on. The movie will be Clooney’s fourth film as director after ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Leatherheads.’