"I didn't take care of myself enough": George Clooney hospitalized after losing 12 pounds for a movie
Because he will stop at nothing for a role, George Clooney has this time pushed the plug a little too far ... The actor of 59 years lost more than ten kilos for his film Midnight in the universe (The Midnight Sky, December 23 on Netflix), which took him straight to the hospital.
After being at the heart of a major political controversy and exposing the rare disease that disabled him during his teenage years, 59-year-old star actor George Clooney now tells how he abused his body for his latest film, Midnight in the universe (The Midnight Sky in original version, available on Netflix December 23, 2020).
Both in front and behind the camera in this post-apocalyptic feature film where he plays Augustine, a lonely scientist with cancer and based in the Arctic, the one who is now the proud father of twins and who shares life. the brilliant Amal Alamuddin went a little too far in her preparation for this role. Indeed, like many Hollywood stars who have made impressive physical changes for the cinema, George Clooney wanted to lose a lot of weight and too quickly. Which brought him straight to the hospital ...
Hospitalized for pancreatitis
In promotion for this film shot in Finland, George Clooney told the Mirror that he was forced to be hospitalized for a few days in 2019. Suffering from severe pain in his stomach just before starting the filming of the film, for which he s' was physically prepared by losing nearly 12 kilos, the actor was affected by pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas. "I think I tried to lose that weight too fast and I didn't take care of myself enough," said the one who generously offered a million dollars to 14 of his friends. Become unrecognizable for this role, he adds: "It took me a few weeks to get better and as a director it's not easy because you need energy. We were out on that glacier in Finland this that made the job even harder. But it certainly helped me with my character. It's bigger than anything I've done before and it was like taming the Indomitable to make it happen. "
A new look that did not please his wife and daughter
Besides his weight loss, George Clooney grew a beard for this role. The actor, who recently made a generous donation to fight the pandemic, says this change of look has not been to everyone's taste at home. If his son loved seeing his hairy father, for his wife and daughter, it was a different story: "I grew a big, ugly beard and my son adored him because he could hide things in it and I didn't realize it until I got to work and I was like 'oh there's a lollipop stuck in my beard.' But my wife and daughter were very happy when I got finally shaved because it was getting really difficult to find a face under all this mess, ”he explains. It should be noted that today the actor is doing well and that he is confined to Los Angeles with his wife and children (Alexander and Ella, 3 years old).
