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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2019, file photo, actor George Clooney talks to reporters on arrival at the premiere of the television mini-series Catch22, in London. Clooney was honored Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, by co-stars and colleagues at the annual film benefit for the Museum of Modern Art, held virtually. (Photo by Grant Pollard/Invision/AP, File) December 23, 2020 - 11:13 AM
NEW YORK - How has George Clooney been handling isolation? Aside from spending time with his wife, Amal Clooney, and their 3-year-old twins, and editing his new film âThe Midnight Sky,â he s relied on, like many others, a text chain with pals and Zoom. He just got off one with Matt Damon and John Krasinski.
NEW YORK How has George Clooney been handling isolation? Aside from spending time with his wife, Amal Clooney, and their 3-year-old twins, and editing his new film “The Midnight Sky,” he’s relied on, like many others, a text chain with pals and Zoom. He just got off one with Matt Damon and John Krasinski. […]
Despite its bleak subject matter,
The Midnight Sky has been a big hit for Netflix over the festive period, topping the most-watched chart worldwide. (Sorry
It doesn t necessarily strike you as a Christmas watch given that it s set at the end of the world as we know it, especially after the year we ve had. However, George Clooney – who directs and stars as terminally ill scientist Augustine Lofthouse – believes it s a story about hope, rather than devastation.
Perhaps that s what has drawn audiences to the tale of Augustine s race against time to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and the rest of the crew on the Aether from returning to Earth and effectively killing themselves. Augustine s mission is made more difficult when he discovers a child (Caoilinn Spingall) has been left behind at the observatory, without any hope of a rescue.