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What George Clooney Learned On ‘ER’ That He Used On His New Movie, ‘The Midnight Sky’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. There's a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of Oscar buzz swirling around George Clooney and his upcoming
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  Speaker 1: movie The Midnight Sky that he directs and stars him
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  Speaker 1: largely because of his portrayal of the complex lead character, Augustine,
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  Speaker 1: who's not exactly big on social graces but finds himself
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  Speaker 1: as one of the last people on earth along with
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  Speaker 1: a young girl, and George was able to tackle the
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  Speaker 1: role with confidence because of a lesson he learned from
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  Speaker 1: playing Dr Doug Ross on The R. He tells, righty,
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  Speaker 1: as an actor, I love the story because you can
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  Speaker 1: never go wrong if it's you and a kid. I
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  Speaker 1: played a pediatrician on The R. I was a womanizer
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  Speaker 1: on the show and a drunk. But if at the
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  Speaker 1: end of every episode, I was like, don't mess with
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  Speaker 1: that kid, I could get away with anything. This film
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  Speaker 1: gives me an opening as an actor to not have
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  Speaker 1: to make this guy necessarily likable, protect the girl and
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  Speaker 1: everything else could be unhappy or angry. Midnight Sky, Netflix, December.
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