George Clooney may be aging and slowing down in Hollywood, but it doesn’t mean he doesn’t have the strength to continue acting and directing. We already know from watching Clooney's best movies that he has major acting talent, but his work stands out as well when he's sitting in the director’s chair. In fact, his next directorial project is The Boys in the Boat, which is about when the University of Washington row crew represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics. If you thought those rowing scenes looked intense in the trailer, Clooney joked that he “almost killed” his young cast with those rowing workouts.
When you look back on George Clooney-directed films, it looks like the former ER actor likes to make dramatizations of certain moments in history, like The Monuments Men, Suburbicon, Leatherheads, and more. If you think watching the young cast tread through waters with those oars was all pretend, think again. George Clooney jokes at a London screening that he “almost killed” his young cast with the rowing workouts he put them through:
