As a journalist, I have a personal checklist of professional etiquette when interviewing a subject. However, after watching George Clooney’s press conference for The Men Who Stare at Goats at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, I realized my guidelines were incomplete. I’d never thought to include, “Keep clothes on.”
Clooney behaved as if this type of behavior was not altogether foreign to him. Hey, he’s George Clooney! But I was more amused by the response in the room. A man strips himself naked in public, and the authorities respond by…taking away his microphone. Next question? You, sir, in the back.
The room behaved as calmly as if the man’s cell phone had merely rung at an inopportune time. Can you imagine if this press conference had taken place in America? Would the naked man have been Tasered and escorted from the building by his short-hairs? Or would Clooney’s David Niven-esque unflappability diffuse any awkward situation?
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Class act award goes to Mr Clooney – why be shocked – it’s not like the body parts are anything special….
Umm…. he’s not naked.
What makes you think the guy is gay? Don’t straight men take their clothes off?
^ William, if you had watched the vid, you would have heard him say at the beginning that he is a gay man and asks George to “pick him”.
George Clooney is fantastic.
I heart George Clooney ! He’s hilarious !