Beyond being perhaps one of the most iconic actors of his generation, the Silver Fox has been an active filmmaker since 2002, directing several feature films including Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night and Good Luck, about the real life broadcast journalist Edward R Murrow’s struggle to bring down Senator McCarthy.
The Monuments Men, a film with a heavyweight cast – Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, even John Goodman – is the result of a collaboration between George Clooney and Grant Heslov (with whom Clooney collaborated with for Goodnight and Good Luck). But is it a vanity project, an impending disaster, or a genuinely good flick?
Both actors, both producers, and both lovers of Art with a capital A, the two talk about the battles to preserve culture from the erosion of war and the of men who fought them; and plucking amazing stories from the annals of history.