Director George Clooney talks to Melissa Nathoo about working with 'a bunch of idiots' on The Boys In The Boat, one of those being Callum Turner. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Come on in, sit down. Welcome to our party. How are you?
00:04 Great, I love joining the party.
00:06 Yeah, we're fine here.
00:07 Oh, great.
00:08 We're the most fun. Have you talked to anybody else yet?
00:11 I haven't spoken to anyone.
00:12 Well then actually, we are the best.
00:14 But also good luck with those guys.
00:16 Yeah, they're not.
00:17 Guys, this film has so much heart. I love a sporting movie. I love an Onsdog story. I loved it so much.
00:25 So much. However...
00:27 Uh oh.
00:28 What?
00:30 You really lured us in there. We were like, "Thank you so much."
00:34 I think you guys are so talented.
00:36 No, actually this is on me. When I got put in a rowboat, it was a live TV link and I couldn't do a thing.
00:44 I looked like an idiot.
00:46 It's hard.
00:47 Cameron, did you get any secret training in before going to do this?
00:50 We did two months.
00:51 Well no, secret training so when you turned up to training they thought you were good.
00:55 No, in fact, we were very concerned once he got in the boat.
00:59 Yeah, just even stepping into it, they were like, "I don't know if this is going to work."
01:02 We did two months and about a month in, George and Grant came down to check us out and we rowed awfully.
01:09 We were so embarrassed.
01:11 All the paddles were hitting at different times.
01:13 Nightmare and arms up here.
01:15 And George was like, "If I could see the panic."
01:18 I actually have a whole bunch of footage of it on my phone because I was filming you guys.
01:22 I can't wait.
01:23 And literally it's like, "Blah, blah, blah."
01:25 I couldn't believe it. I was like, "Oh my God, we're doing a movie with a bunch of idiots."
01:30 I like the idea. You guys in the car, like, "Oh my God."
01:34 And us in the boathouse, we were just silent.
01:37 I don't think this is going to work.
01:39 You pulled it off.
01:40 We did and you know what? These guys set us up to succeed.
01:43 They really did.
01:44 They had to put all the effort in and it was really fun.
01:47 Yes, it looked it.
01:48 Yeah, it was.
01:49 George, you gave me anxiety with the close-ups on the oarlocks because it reminded me of Cool Runnings.
01:56 And I was like, "Any second this is going to break."
02:00 I had anxiety every single-- Was that intentional?
02:04 No, I didn't try to do anything about Cool Runnings.
02:07 Right.
02:08 Having said that, I love that film.
02:10 I do.
02:11 No, I didn't do any of that.
02:13 We tried to-- You know, here was the interesting thing, which I think you'll understand because you saw the film.
02:18 It's not so easy to make rowing look exciting on film.
02:24 Right.
02:25 Because like F1, as fast as those cars are going, they don't look that fast unless you're right on top of them.
02:32 And so we needed hundreds of cuts and shots to build the excitement and to build it.
02:39 So we did a lot of those kind of shots just to have something to cut to.
02:43 It worked. It worked. I was anxious.
02:45 We were anxious the whole time through training because if you catch a crab, you screw it up for everyone.
02:50 So we had to really be in-- know what we were doing.
02:53 Do you know what catching a crab is?
02:54 No.
02:55 It's when you all get stuck in-- But you know it. I like that. Thank you.
02:58 Oh, yeah. I have to try and look like I know what I'm doing.
03:01 If you all get stuck in the water and you're not in time with everyone else, it wrecks the rhythm of the row.
03:06 Well, he actually did it once.
03:07 You can see in the movie-- It's funny. It's not acting, so it's a little hint.
03:11 There's a shot in this montage where they're rowing and he basically catches a crab and he misses.
03:17 And Jack comes back and he hits him in the back really hard.
03:21 And they start fighting.
03:23 And we just left-- I would say they said, "What are we doing?"
03:27 I said, "Keep rolling, man."
03:28 A hundred people on boats around us.
03:30 Yeah.
03:31 And me and Jack going at it.
03:32 Screaming.
03:33 And it was my fault.
03:34 It was absolutely his fault.
03:35 I was mortified.
03:36 You didn't come up with any cool runnings type mottos before you got going then?
03:40 Like, you know, "Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get up."
03:42 No, we already had that, actually.
03:44 "Mind and boat" was one of them, along to "The River."
03:47 "The River?"
03:48 "The River."
03:49 "The Rhythm."
03:50 "The Rhythm of the Night."
03:51 "The Rhythm of the Night."
03:52 "The Rhythm of the Night."
03:53 Yeah.
03:54 Yeah, "Mind and boat" was one.
03:56 Okay.
03:57 And then we used "And We Got Fun" as part of it, too.
04:00 That's right, yeah.
04:01 I love that part.
04:02 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:03 I loved it from start to finish, guys.
04:06 So good luck with it.
04:07 Well, thank you so much.
04:08 It is genuinely great.
04:09 Thank you.
04:10 Well, thanks.