If George Clooney ever decides to run for president, he wouldn’t get Julianne Moore’s vote. “I don’t think actors should be president,” Moore said at the Variety Studio Presented by AT&T at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I’m sorry, George.”
Clooney wasn’t hurt.
In fact, he stressed — once again — that he has no political aspirations. “I think that having a celebrity as president who has a star on Hollywood Boulevard will exorcise our need to have someone famous in office,” Clooney said about Donald Trump. “And maybe we’ll find someone who knows how to make policy.”Clooney was in Canada with the premiere of “Suburbicon,” a Paramount Pictures release that he directed, produced and co-wrote. The drama is adapted from an old script written by the Coen brothers about a 1950s family (played by Matt Damon and Moore) victimized by a brutal robbery. Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov updated the story by adding a second plot, about a black family experiencing racism from their violent white neighbors.
In Toronto, Clooney and Moore stopped by the Variety studio to talk about the film and other topics ranging from Charlottesville to tabloid culture. Here are some highlights.
On expanding the Coen brothers’ script with a new story line: “I’d been hearing a lot of things on the campaign…
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