George Clooney Applauds Joe Biden For Stepping Down & Addresses Apple’s Move To Limited Theatrical Release For ‘Wolfs’: “It’s A Bummer” – Venice

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It’s Sunday on the Lido with George Clooney and Brad Pitt cruising into town for the world premiere of Apple Original Film’s Wolfs.

The movie premieres out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this evening after screening for the press this morning. In between their trademark banter at the packed press conference, the pair also addressed weightier matters such as the upcoming U.S.

elections and the contemporary film industry chestnut of streaming versus theatrical. Clooney was quizzed about his op-ed in The New York Time in July asking President Joe Biden to step down as the presidential candidate in the upcoming elections. “I’ve never had to answer that question, so I suppose I’ll do it here,” said Clooney, as the room broke into applause, seemingly for his involvement in the move to get Biden to move on. “The person who should be applauded is the president who did the most selfless thing that anybody’s done since George Washington.

So, all the machinations that got us there, none of that’s gonna be remembered and it shouldn’t be… “What should be remembered is the selfless act of someone — you know, it’s very hard to let go of power, we know that, we’ve seen it all around the world — and for someone to say I think there’s a better way forward, all the credit goes to him, and that’s really the truth.