Hollywood star George Clooney has showered praise on US President Joe Biden over the latter's decision to bow out of the 2024 presidential race. The actor attended the press event in Venice for his film 'Wolfs' and shared his opinion on Biden passing the baton to the current Vice-President of the United States, Kamala Harris, reports Variety.
He said: "I actually have never had to answer that question, so I suppose I will do it here. The person who should be applauded is the President, who has done the most selfless thing a President has done since George Washington.
What should be remembered is the selfless act of someone who-it's very hard to let go of power, we know that, we've seen it all over the world-and for someone to say, I think there's a better path forward, all the credit goes to him. And that's really the truth … I'm just very proud of where we are in the state of the world right now," he added.
In the event, he was also questioned about Apple's moving of the film from a wide theatrical release to a limited one. He also referred to a report of last week by Nicole Sterling of New York Times that he and Pitt were paid of more than $35 million apiece.
It was millions and millions of dollars less than what was reported," he said. "I think it's bad for our industry to have that be the standard ."
On the changing state of the industry and movie going, he tackled this with Variety by saying, "It's an absolute necessity.
"We need it. Our industry needs this. And they also benefit from having films released," he said. "But we haven't got it all figured out yet. This is a revolution in our industry. We need Apple and Amazon and they actually need distributors. They need to have Sony or Warner Bros, who have been doing this for 100 years."
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