Although George Clooney was at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday to accept a lifetime achievement award, he wasn’t focused solely on nostalgia and recollections. The 65-year-old actor and director discussed topics like the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, the artificial intelligence revolution in Hollywood, and the status of journalism and power in America before to the award ceremony, which he intends to attend with his wife Amal Clooney.
There’s a great word, kakistocracy, which is a country run by the least qualified people,” Clooney said. “I think maybe we have a kakistocracy right now. But we’ll get through it.” Of artificial intelligence, Clooney said that his industry is going to have to find ways to survive, and that he would “like to avoid being in a tampon commercial 20 years after I’m dead.”
He bemoaned the fact that some of the world’s richest men own “The Washington Post” and X and said that the proposed merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. was “a complicated thing because I don’t know how this works out, I don’t know how it goes through.”
Over the course of 11 days, the 83rd edition of the festival will see many stars from Hollywood and beyond grace the red carpet, from Robert Pattinson to Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis, but this year’s focus seems to be more on geopolitics than movie-star moments.
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