In a great compliment to our favourite Aussie actress, George Clooney reportedly flew all the way to Australia for one day to give Cate Blanchett the script to his upcoming film The Monuments Men.
‘Well, they are friends so that part is easy,’ Clooney recently said about hiring the ideal cast to star in his film. ‘But you know the truth is, they wouldn’t do it if they didn’t like the screenplay… I mean I flew to Australia for one day to hand Cate (Blanchett) the script.’
Cate was unfamiliar with the story of The Monuments Men when she received the script, but enthusiastic about the film.
‘I knew that work had gone missing and that the Nazis had collected art and stolen and destroyed art,’ said Blanchett.
The film, which stars George Clooney and Cate Blanchett alongside Matt Damon, John Goodman and Bill Murray will be released in March of this year. The Monuments Men recounts the story of an allied platoon who set out to rescue artworks from the Nazis. It is an adaptation of a book, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, by Robert Edsel.
Clooney has told great stories of the filming of The Monuments Men in recent interviews and even shared the story of a prank he played on his father once the project was finished.
‘I screened the movie for him in Italy,’ said Clooney. ‘My father plays me at the end of the film and walks off into this beautiful church with this beautiful light and it goes to black and normally that would be like the first credit that comes up and instead I put, ‘In Loving Memory of Nick Clooney.’ He said, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ I said, ‘Well, you know, it’s a long time before the movie comes out so you never know.’ I didn’t leave it in the film but he thought it was very funny and said he is going to get me back.’