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George Clooney joked about age as he braved the rain for The Boys in the Boat London premiere.Source: PA
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00:00 I loved the book. We loved the book. It was a huge, huge, massive bestseller.
00:04 And it'd been a long time coming, and when we got the script, we thought it was a really...
00:09 You know, we kind of need a good story. We kind of need a nice story right now in the world.
00:15 And so it felt like it was a good time to do a story like this.
00:18 I did The Perfect Storm about 20 years ago. No more than that, I guess.
00:22 And listen, once you're in the water, everything slows down, as you can imagine.
00:27 So it was a lot of work. But all those poor guys, we made them... We hurt them.
00:32 We made them suffer out there.
00:34 Were you tempted to get in?
00:35 No! Are you kidding? I'm 62. You know what I'm tempted to do?
00:38 Go home, put on something warm, have a glass of wine, young, tall, handsome guys.
00:44 I got no time for them. Are you kidding? We're taking jobs away.
00:47 No, listen, they were great. And we really did put them through the paces.
00:51 We trained them for months to learn how to row. It's not something you just jump in and do.
00:56 So I feel very lucky that I got to.

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