George Clooney turns actors into rowers for new film
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00:00 when we started casting him, I would call him and say, "Now, are you an athletic person?"
00:04 And they said, "You have to be honest because if you're not, we'll fire you because if you can't
00:09 do it." And they all, the guys we got all said they were and they were. And so it took, it took
00:14 about three months of training, but we got him there.
00:17 Eight-man crew is the most difficult team sport in the world.
00:20 The average human body is just not meant for such things.
00:25 We did two months straight of training at a school called Radley in Oxford.
00:30 And we were just set up to succeed, basically. We had nutritionists and trainers. Terry O'Neill
00:37 won a gold medal at Atlanta, the Olympics. He was training us. It's the closest thing I'm ever gonna
00:44 feel to being part of a professional sports team. It was truly a wonderful experience.