Promoting new movie Money Monster alongside pal George Clooney, his wife Amal, and film director Jodie Foster, at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Thursday, the Pretty Woman star held up her black off-the-shoulder Armani Privé gown to show off her shoeless state as she climbed the famous steps.
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There were serious moments, like when Clooney dismissed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
She said there were many scripts out there written for diverse women, they were just not getting financed.
For Julia Roberts, who is participating in Cannes Film Festival for the very first time and later walked the red carpet barefoot, “it’s been wonderful, it’s exciting and thrilling, and ever so slightly terrifying”.
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When asked to comment on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends” Friday, Trump took issue with some of the actors statements.
That character, Clarice Starling, as written in the book, was a tragic male archetype from Greek tragedies. and the fact that.it was a woman who is searching for her meaning, her destiny.
Jodie Foster, who was also at the press conference, had come to Cannes five years ago with The Beaver, a romantic tale starring Mel Gibson – a man who learns to express himself with the help of a beaver hand puppet after he has had a breakdown.
“As far as George Clooney is concerned, let’s put it this way – he’s no Cary Grant”. The hostage taker was a distraught investor played by Jack O’Connell.
George Clooney plays financial guru Lee Gates, who dishes out stock market tips and money advice on his hit TV show.
“I think people do still want to make movies that make them think, that make them feel, that don’t manipulate them”, she said.
“We have a attractive front lawn at our house in England and I used to mow lawns when I was a kid”, he told ET Canada.
“It’s shocking how little I’ve been able to figure out how to get movies off the ground and to find opportunities for personal films”, Foster says.
Clooney also praised “Money Monster” for trying to teach a lesson.
Unlike “The Big Short,” the film doesn’t stop while the informational nuggets are doled out. But you actually have to carve out the time.
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“There’s a great disaster in the way we inform ourselves now”, Clooney remarked. But in under 100 minutes, an impossible amount of stuff happens in Money Monster, from the police letting a hostage situation spill onto the streets of Manhattan to an impromptu live segment that serves as the movie’s endgame.
