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Making of The Midnight Sky : How George Clooney Battled Extreme Cold (and a Pandemic) to Make His Sci-Fi Epic
by Carolyn Giardina
December 22, 2020, 8:00am PST
Tackling his most ambitious movie yet, a meditation on loneliness and redemption, the actor-director endured a subzero shoot, mastered the latest VFX and navigated the COVID-19 lockdown.
On Iceland s Vatnajokull glacier, the largest ice cap in Europe, George Clooney found himself battling the elements in October 2019. With temperatures well below zero, the actor, playing a lonely witness to a global catastrophe, could barely see the crew or his diminutive co-star, 7-year-old Caoilinn Springall, as they worked under whiteout conditions. It wasn t a snowstorm, he recalls. There were these winds, sort of tornados, that would be coming toward you and we waited for them. We had whistles and we had string tied to ourselves so that we could never get too far apart, because you couldn t see your hand if
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